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Xicano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 01:07 AM Original message |
So Obama says the banks didn't actually break any laws? |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 01:11 AM Response to Original message |
1. Is that what Geithner and Holder told him? |
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vets74 (714 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 08:27 AM Response to Reply #1 |
37. COMMON LAW FRAUD remains local jurisdiction. Only use of mail or equivalents escalates to Federal. |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 06:45 PM Response to Reply #37 |
42. They sold those mortgages across state lines. |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 01:12 AM Response to Original message |
2. When did he say that? Quote? There are many false narratives being propagated on a daily basis. |
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PETRUS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 01:31 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Press conference in the last couple of weeks. |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 01:38 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. See comment #13. n/t |
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PETRUS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 01:42 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Thanks, I was just going from memory. nt |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 01:13 AM Response to Original message |
3. Who is this person and what are their credentials? |
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Xicano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 01:17 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. That would be Bonnie Faulkner of KPFA Berkeley, CA (Pacifica Radio) interviewing Max Keiser |
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Gamow (226 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 01:16 AM Response to Original message |
4. I'm less concerned about the laws they broke, more concerned about the laws they wrote |
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PETRUS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 01:33 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. That's it! +1 |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 06:52 AM Response to Reply #4 |
32. +1 |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 11:35 AM Response to Reply #4 |
40. Bingo. Or repealed. Or blocked. Or rendered toothless. |
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girl_interrupted (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 01:17 AM Response to Original message |
6. I know our NYAttorney General EricSchneiderman feels they did |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 01:25 AM Response to Original message |
7. He said a lot of them didn't break any laws. He didn't say that none of them did. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 01:32 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Or the people that committed the crimes were front line employees. |
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a simple pattern (426 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 01:35 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. You sound a little worried. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 02:19 AM Response to Reply #12 |
22. Worried? No I'm just a little less than patient with some of the assertions made. |
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tama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 02:57 AM Response to Reply #9 |
25. Should not be difficult |
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girl_interrupted (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 01:34 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. His actions speak louder than words unfortunately |
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pacalo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 01:43 AM Response to Reply #7 |
18. I agree. Focus on who writes these laws. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 01:47 AM Response to Reply #7 |
19. Every systemically dangerous institution broke laws. |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 01:37 AM Response to Original message |
13. That is NOT what Obama said. The OP should have provided the actual quote. Quote below |
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PETRUS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 01:41 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. That's true. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 01:49 AM Response to Reply #13 |
20. But that statement is not true.. |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 02:36 AM Response to Reply #13 |
23. Talk about how many angels can dance on the head of a friggin pin. You |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 03:07 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Why are you making things up ? |
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eomer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 05:20 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. He chose to talk about things not to prosecute. |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 08:59 AM Response to Reply #26 |
39. You're begging the question: how in the world could Obama |
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Petrushka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 02:55 AM Response to Reply #13 |
24. Without knowing how Obama, as a lawyer, would define "illegal", we can't know what "necessarily |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 06:09 AM Response to Reply #13 |
28. Of course if a corporation does happen to break the law the law can always be retroactively changed. |
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piratefish08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 07:15 AM Response to Reply #13 |
35. so he is implying that they know SOME was illegal, but still no arrests, prosecutions, etc....... |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 01:39 AM Response to Original message |
15. Can we get them on aggravated panhandling for asking for a bailout? |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 02:18 AM Response to Original message |
21. Obama does not even know right from wrong |
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GoCubsGo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 07:14 AM Response to Reply #21 |
34. He knows legal from illegal. |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 06:29 AM Response to Original message |
29. When murderers write the laws they won't be breaking the law either |
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Evasporque (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 06:36 AM Response to Original message |
30. Republicans passed laws that made their thievery legal...nt |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 06:51 AM Response to Original message |
31. He also said Bradley Manning did break the law... |
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bigtree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 07:02 AM Response to Original message |
33. he never said that |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 07:19 AM Response to Reply #33 |
36. I think the only campaign he has embarked on is one for re-election |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 08:37 AM Response to Original message |
38. I hate when DUers make up stuff that Obama never said, in order to make him look bad. (nt) |
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meow2u3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-17-11 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
41. Mr. President, do you mean to tell me foreclosure fraud is not a crime? |
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