Matt Taibbi writes: "The idea behind this federally-guided 'settlement' is to concentrate and centralize all the legal exposure accrued by this generation of grotesque banker corruption in one place, put one single price tag on it that everyone can live with, and then stuff the details into a titanium canister before shooting it into deep space."
President Barack Obama departs the White House via Air Force One. (photo: Getty Images)
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Obama is just another crook. And as his so call success increased, the bigger crook he became.
I wrote about this in 2006
http://www.myleftwing.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=12660
And I have been writing since that time that Obama would be a disaster because he was a pure capitalist, pro Israel, Pro war and would expand wars all over the mid east.
I knew this because he said he would.
But liberals are too enthralled with covering up their feelings of racism ( they can't comphrehend why they have no dark skinned friends, aquaintances or relationships...they only know they shouldn't be racists...it's not in fashion) so they voted for Obama without listening to what he was saying all along.
And how he got away with this house purchase is amazing. it's so obvious
John Adams would have beaten hell out of someone by now. make the corporation persons do it. SCOTUS says corporations are no different than individual persons. so, corporations, start cleaning!
Agreed. Hate to admit it but I've been saying it all along: A white person with the same resume as Obama (Taught some college, community organizer, ran for office, ran for office, ran for office) doesn't get a sniff in the DEM primaries. Any DEM with a pulse was going to beat McCain so the true presidential election of '08 was the DEM primary.
It became past time when he caved on the expiration of the Bush tax cuts and way past time when he caved on the debt ceiling fiasco!
He is looking to get the same parachute his predecessors Bush and Clinton recieved. The pay off is that he plans to raise a billion dollars for his compaign. He is a complete, typical, political sellout to the rich.
Your representatives represent the bankers, not you. That's why there's no appeal to the popular vote. noboby pays attention to that anymore. They pay attention to money...and not enough comes from voters to make a difference...and the government is now privatized anyway....
Don't email your representatives .
Throw rocks at Bank of America
"The Obama administration appears to have delayed (deferred, suspended, or slowed) prosecution and civil litigation against executives of banks, mortgage companies, and other financial entities presumably until the economy recovers sufficiently so as not to interfere with that recovery.
"Do you, sir, plan to reinstitute and/or reinvigorate these deferred investigations, prosecutions, and civil litigations against financial executives and entities implicated in causing the economic collapse when the economy recovers?"
If that's a question for EVERY Republican candidate, that "sir" is undoubtedly misplaced. We're long past the time when one could automatically assume all candidates were male. Catch up, please.
When Reagan deregulated commercial banks, credit unions were not included. That is why they didn't go through all of the melt-down issues, etc.
AND, relative to the B of A, and the rest, they are like mom & pop businesses.
On the other hand - the Supremes' 2010 decision to give big $$ "personhood" -- perhaps President Obama MUST secure money from big $$ - or not be heard at all. I'd still vote for Obama before a GOP/TP (who have TOLD us they want the rich to get richer and the mid/poor to DIE without education/medical/etc)
VOTE 2012 -- do not sit home bc you don't like your choices. Take the best of the worst -- UGH
Supreme Liar..... The Banksta's Man, Pied Piper, from the get-go.
Jive Cat; smooth, slick and Treasonous.
Unlike Bush (same Controllers), he has both a tongue and a brain. Good for fooling everyone.
The economy would not crashed and the housing market would still be growing, unemployment would be on the 6.5 to 8% range.
Obama should opt form 2012 elections - but I doubt it - all around him admire "The Emperor's New Clothes".
Just freaking stand up and act like a man.
An Emperor who cares for nothing but his appearance and attire hires two tailors who promise him the finest suit of clothes from a fabric invisible to anyone who is unfit for his position or "just hopelessly stupid". The Emperor cannot see the cloth himself, but pretends that he can for fear of appearing unfit for his position; his ministers do the same. When the swindlers report that the suit is finished, they mime dressing him and the Emperor then marches in procession before his subjects, who play along with the pretense. Suddenly, a child in the crowd, too young to understand the desirability of keeping up the pretense, blurts out that the Emperor is wearing nothing at all and the cry is taken up by others. The Emperor cringes, suspecting the assertion is true, but holds himself up proudly and continues the procession
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