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To: LindyBill who wrote (304543)	5/10/2009 4:45:05 PM
From: goldworldnet	3 Recommendations Respond to of 793840

Admires him so much his name isn't included. <g> {A senior Wall Street executive who remains an admirer of Mr Obama.} * * *

To: LindyBill who wrote (304543)	5/10/2009 4:59:28 PM
From: mph	2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793840

Mr Obama said last week that it was "an aberration" that profits in the financial sector had grown so large over the last decade. It was ridiculous he suggested, that "25-year-olds (were) getting million-dollar bonuses, (and) they were willing to pay $100 for a steak dinner and the waiter was getting the kinds of tips that would make a college professor envious." If Obama practiced what he preaches, this kind of talk wouldn't be so damned ludicrous coming out of his mouth.

To: LindyBill who wrote (304543)	5/10/2009 7:26:49 PM
From: KLP	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793840

Ahhhhhhhhhh, a bit of Schadenfreude--The Dems can't say they weren't warned. I wonder exactly when they will have a mass-brain spasm and come to the realization that they were indeed wrong. Now they have no one else to blame but themselves for the financial troubles of the US and thus the world. We know and they know that there is NO way to pay off the kind of debt that Obama and his merry band of thieves have proposed, in addition to the huge amounts they have already spent in the last 120 days or so, UNLESS we have an astronomical inflation. The money is needed to pay for a national debt that will double over the next five years; and triple over the next 10 years to $17.3 trillion. But the crackdown already faces fierce Democratic resistance.

To: LindyBill who wrote (304543)	5/11/2009 12:22:25 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793840

But it is now dawning on many among them that Mr Obama was serious about his campaign trail promises to bring root and branch reform to corporate America - and that they were more than just election rhetoric. A top Obama fundraiser and hedge fund manager said: "I'm appalled at the anti-Wall Street rhetoric. It was OK on the campaign but now it's the real world. I'm surprised that Obama is turning out to be so left-wing. He's a real class warrior." Lots more people than Rudy Giuliani need to tell Sean Hannity, "Hannity, you were right." And lots more people than just Arab diplomats are wailing in private, "But they assured us the rhetoric was just crap for the stupid!" Think the Republicans can adopt the motto: "The GOP: the only party that doesn't think you're all morons"? Chris Edwards of the Cato Institute, a free enterprise think tank, said Democrats in Congress were unnerved by the president's latest plan to raise $210 billion over 10 years from multinational corporations. The money is needed to pay for a national debt that will double over the next five years; and triple over the next 10 years to $17.3 trillion. But the crackdown already faces fierce Democratic resistance. The Blue Dogs will be key, for sure. Right now they're still in the position of a new bride not wanting to admit that her bridegroom is quickly turning into a jealous control freak and she's beginning to doubt the marriage will last. Barack Obama's rich supporters fear his tax plans show he's a class warrior - Telegraph (10 May 2009) Naturally, this is only being reported in a British paper.