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In reply to the discussion: What Obama Says Is His 'Worst Mistake' as President [View all]2cannan
(344 posts)81. Anybody read the book The Fixers?
From Was the First Obama Election Fixed? New Book Raises Suspicions
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2016/03/was-the-first-obama-election-fixed-new-book-raises-suspicions/
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So what youre getting in Fixers is a spellbinding analysis of the actual dirty deals that toppled Wall Street in 2008 with a new twist a fictitious character who says he laundered $75 million into the Democratic presidential campaign of Hillary Clintons primary challenger in 2007 in exchange for three names on an index card. Those three names had to become the hope and change Presidents chief economic advisor, Treasury Secretary, and head of the criminal division of the Justice Department. These three key posts were to keep piles of bailout money flowing to Wall Street while simultaneously making sure no Wall Street executives were prosecuted for the crimes that brought on the crash.
The primary challenger to Hillary Clinton and the man who beats her and goes on to become President is called simply OG in the book. (OMG would have worked for me.)
The details in the book surrounding the three names on the index card seem to be channeling Larry Summers, Tim Geithner, and Lanny Breuer, who took the respective posts of chief economic advisor, Treasury Secretary and head of the Justice Departments criminal division in the first Obama administration and, indeed, sluiced trillions to Wall Street while the Justice Department failed to prosecute, saying it was worried about collateral damage, such as triggering bank layoffs. (Like the collapse of the U.S. economy from untamed financial corruption is not collateral damage.)
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No one knows what Obama considers her and, as Secretary, she made a very bad recommendation.
merrily
Apr 2016
#76
And involving Blumenthal after being given direct instruction to keep him away, again goes
Kittycat
Apr 2016
#89
Not the point. Obama is not running. The SOS who made the horrific recommendation is running.
merrily
Apr 2016
#78
To be fair, he's admitted that, that is his complaint, we didn't do enough. We didn't plan.
bemildred
Apr 2016
#57
Dear President, it is time to stop covering for SoS Clinton. She talked you into this and you should
thereismore
Apr 2016
#3
NOT prosecuting bushco for war crimes or bankers for destroying the economy
onecaliberal
Apr 2016
#4
It's all of a piece. He's a New Democrat, so of course, his picks were New Dems and Republicans.
merrily
Apr 2016
#80
I think his worst mistake was thinking the Repugs would ever cooperate with him
diane in sf
Apr 2016
#8
That's a big one. Even bigger was when he found out they wouldn't, he kept on giving them
PatV
Apr 2016
#42
good grief -- foreign military interventions is how "self-determination" is realized?
stupidicus
Apr 2016
#38
As long as they don't bother us or behead Christians I'm fine with dictators over what replaced them
Reter
Apr 2016
#46
Ah, you are reading the spin that was pushed by PNAC and the ultra right.
ChairmanAgnostic
Apr 2016
#93
I thought it was assuming Republicans want what's best for its citizens.
Spitfire of ATJ
Apr 2016
#13
they also blamed France and Britain--"here, stick your dick in the same mousetrap we are!"
MisterP
Apr 2016
#28
Beats the hell out of Dubyah's sniggering: "Gee, I cain't think o' nothin' I did rawng!"
Aristus
Apr 2016
#47
My question is why President Obama chose the lack of a plan after intervening in Libya . . .
PWPippin
Apr 2016
#50
I suspect what is he saying is his mistake is trusting certain people...
DemocracyDirect
Apr 2016
#51