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kpete

(71,986 posts)
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 12:36 PM Jan 2012

GOP couldn't pick a worse time to nominate one of Wall Street's "Masters of the Universe."

Robert Creamer
Why the Bain Capital Controversy Is So Damaging to GOP Chances This Fall

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2). If you were the Republican Party, you couldn't pick a worse time to nominate a candidate with a resume as one of Wall Street's "Masters of the Universe."

Even today, most voters are acutely aware that the recklessness of the big Wall Street Banks -- and a complicit Bush Administration -- caused the 2008 financial crisis that cost eight million Americans their jobs and worst economic calamity since the Great Depression.

The GOP will have to go some distance to convince everyday voters that they should trust their economic futures to a guy who was part of precisely the same crowd whose greed and recklessness just sent the economy crashing in flames.

After all, not many people would be keen to sign up for a cruise managed by the same team that commanded the Titanic.

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more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/why-the-bain-capital-cont_b_1208678.html

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GOP couldn't pick a worse time to nominate one of Wall Street's "Masters of the Universe." (Original Post) kpete Jan 2012 OP
I have been waiting to hear that for as long as Mitt has been running Vincardog Jan 2012 #1
Are they acutely aware? izquierdista Jan 2012 #2
 

izquierdista

(11,689 posts)
2. Are they acutely aware?
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 01:32 PM
Jan 2012

Will Obama remind them if they aren't? Wouldn't exactly be "bipartisan" of him if he was so rude as to point it out.

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