Elizabeth Warren on cocaine and banking

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8. If O had actually prosecuted them, they wouldn't have paid $35,800 each to have dinner with him.

Bankers are so thin-skinned! They were so pissed off O called them "fat cats", he had to really suck up to keep those donations coming in. Good grief! Wasn't it enough that they were bailed out with none of them being tried, convicted and jailed?

http://www.toobighasfailed.org/2013/05/17/quotes-about-wall-street/

“You want to know who owns America? A few at the top. And they’ve got one thing on their mind. No change. Look at Obama, all that hope and promise. No change. He went to Wall Street, had a fundraiser—$35,800 a ticket—and you know who the host was? Goldman friggin’ Sachs.”

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/wall-streets-dinner-with-obama-hold-the-scorn/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

The $35,800-a-plate dinner, held at the eponymous Upper East Side restaurant of the famed chef Daniel Boulud, was hosted by a committee of bankers, private equity executives and hedge fund managers, including Marc Lasry, chief executive of the Avenue Capital Group, and Orin Kramer, general partner at Boston Provident.

A similar benefit was held in April at the home of the wife of Jon Corzine, the ex-governor of New Jersey and former chief executive of Goldman Sachs. Both events are part of a concerted effort to lure deep-pocketed donors back to Mr. Obama’s corner for his 2012 re-election campaign. Some longtime Democrats in the finance community, angered by Mr. Obama’s comparisons of Wall Street executives to “fat cats” with outsize bonuses, have chafed at Mr. Obama’s attempt at an election-year rapprochement, and only a handful of bank executives appear as donors in recent filings connected to the campaign.