The curiousness of Obama slamming Wall Street as a bunch of crooks and hoodlums for taking America for a ride and then leaving behind this financial mess for taxpayers to clean up is strange because I haven’t heard a peep out of the “players”on Wall Street about being done in by the POTUS.
I have read where Goldman Sach’s CEO Lloyd Blankfein visited Obama’s White House 4 times while the SEC was investigating Goldman Sachs for misdeeds. Of course it has been said there is no proof that Blankfein was there lobbying the President over the investigation….
No evidence has surfaced to suggest that Blankfein or any other Goldman executive raised the SEC case with the president or his aides. SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro said in a statement Wednesday that the SEC doesn’t coordinate enforcement actions with the White House or other political bodies.
Yeah, we should believe that Blankfein took time out of his busy schedule to fly to Washington with his wife to get decorating ideas from Michelle Obama about another home they were considering building.
Why does the press, and the White House, think the American people are just a bunch of buffoons riding around all day picking their noses and scratching their heads trying to decide if they should eat Chinese or Mexican for lunch?
I included the press because we all know they cover Obama like a piece of notebook paper on a king size mattress.
There is no collusion, no chit chat between the White house, SEC and Goldman Sachs-here is another excerpt from the same story…
Meanwhile, however, Goldman is retaining formerObama White House counsel Gregory Craig as a member of its legal team. In addition, when he worked as an investment banker in Chicago a decade ago, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel advised one client who also retained Goldman as an adviser on the same $8.2 billion deal.
There is no doubt that there is an arms length relationship between these entities….
According to White House visitor logs, Blankfein was among the business leaders who attended an Obama speech on Feb. 13, 2009, and he also joined more than a dozen bank CEOs in a meeting with Obama on March 27, 2009.
This last excerpt makes my imagination run wild with a dozen bank CEO’s meeting with Obama about bank policy. I can hear Obama telling the bankers in so many words..
“Ok guys, I am going to make it look like I am cooking your goose when I come out and slam you guys in the media. I am going to preach ‘real reform’ to the masses so they will believe that I am serious about fixing everything that is wrong with Wall Street. (laughing) Let’s be clear though, the only thing I believe needs fixing is you guys giving up twice as much money to my campaign in 2012 as you did in 2008. We will leave you alone in the 2nd term and you guys can basically do as you please.”
Maybe it didn’t go quite like that but I would believe that scenario before I believed anything the press is feeding us!
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