Geithner: Wall Streets Anger Toward Obama is inexplicable

[xiamiam]

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Bennet asked Geithner why Wall Street continues to fight Obama, even though "o one has been a greater direct beneficiary than the financial community of the policies of this administration."

"You saved their companies, by and large, you saved their jobs, you even saved their bonuses. And they cannot stand this president now -- even people who supported him four years ago. Why? What explains that?" asked Bennet.

"I think it's inexplicable," responded Geithner. "People resent when they need help. It's a natural thing. They resent the huge amount of public anger they've been subjected to because they caused the crisis."

Despite the unprecedented bailout it received from taxpayers, the financial services industry consistently opposes Obama on issues such as taxes and regulations.

In recent months, Obama supporters have been trying to convince Wall Street executives that this administration has been friendly to them -- and is still worthy of their campaign donations in 2012.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/05/tim-geithner-wall-street-obama-anger_n_996918.html

[Angry Dragon]

1. Geithner: "I gave them everything they asked for so I do not

know why they dislike me so much"

[moondust]

4. And it's not just him.

Thirty fucking years of spoiling the little crybabies rotten to the bone and now they just can't live without more easy handouts from daddy. Waaaaaaaahhhhh!!! :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[xiamiam]

2. this article, this headline, at this time is just so out of touch i cant stop shaking my head

guess no one in the administration is watching the news

[leftstreet]

6. It's brilliant. Wall Street is doubleplus bad if it doesn't like Obama

Obama should go occupy!

[PufPuf23]

3. Geithner is a complicit half-wit nt

[MannyGoldstein]

5. Geeithner is a godamned idiot

Not fit to serve on a school board, let alone Treasury Secretary.

Dear God!

[provis99]

7. you suck ass, Geithner.

Become a Republican already, you Wall Street buffoon.

[pansypoo53219]

8. the rich wall streeters are SO FRAGILE.

LEAVE THE MILLIONAIRES ALONE!!!!!

[Occupied1]

9. Or maybe just fake

[Capitalocracy]

14. At least partially.

+1

[Safetykitten]

10. Timmy as anything in this administration is inexplicable.

[inna]

11. they want it all and they want it now

- plus, manufactured outrage by Wall Street against Obama makes people instinctively sympathetic and takes the heat off him.


You don't expect Wall Street to say, Hey, Obama has been an absolute bankster's wet dream come true, do you.

[anamandujano]

13. That's the game.

manufactured outrage by Wall Street against Obama makes people instinctively sympathetic and takes the heat off him.

I found myself getting sucked into this a few weeks back. I'm not playing anymore.

[xiamiam]

19. i'm not sympathetic..i'm disgusted..nt

[Zookeeper]

12. 'Can't see the forest for the trees....

Wall St. con artists, the predatory Banksters and the mercenary corporations will not settle for "compromise." They want it all and they want it now. Obama and the rest of the Democrats shouldn't even bother. Do what's right, don't compromise with crooks.

[Deb]

15. Of course they aren't happy with Obama,

because he gave them what they wanted, Wall St. is now exposed to blame for any failings in the economy.

[Fumesucker]

16. When a political figure inadvertently utters an awkward and embarrassing truth it's known as a gaffe

Timmeh Geithner just gaffed, big time.

[xiamiam]

17. kick for the morning crowd...nt

[xiamiam]

18. k

[Enrique]

20. anger is strategic

if bankers get content with Washington, then Washington will stop giving them things.

[Doctor_J]

21. I finally agree with him. My take on the situation is that Wall Street hates Obama VOTERS

many of us were hoping that Obama would take the country back from Wall Street and give it back to us. Instead he's continued/escalated anti-working-people policies. So we despise Wall Street, and we voted for Obama, and so they hate us and thus Obama.