Obama: The ANTI-Progressive

[DontTreadOnMe]

The entire article is worth reading.

http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/17984

"Street’s entire analysis is quite long and may be the best expose of Obama in writing. When one reads it and couples it with David Sirota, Obama’s speech to the Hamilton Project then one can understand that Obama really was the perfect stealth candidate. Not only is he NOT a progressive, he is an ANTI-progressive who represents Goldman Sachs and the power elite of this country. After the bailouts, after the trillions given to Wall St. and the banks (Goldman got its investment in Obama repaid in the billions), after the escalation of war in Afghanistan, after Obama’s health "insurance reform", after the false unemployment summit, we likely will get what Bob Rubin also wants: an attack on entitlements."

[Ian David]

1. Sirota is a douchebag. Nobody cares what that nutball says. n/t

[DontTreadOnMe]

4. the analysis is not written by Sirota, it just mentions him

but thanks for playing, since it is obvious that you DIDN'T READ it. We need more ill-informed knee-jerk OPs like you.

[Ian David]

5. Hey, that's what I'm here for. n/t

[BeHereNow]

6. Thanks for admitting it. Now where is that little button...

c'ya, NOT.

BHN

[DontTreadOnMe]

7. Well at least you reached the first step:

ADMITTING you are ILL-INFORMED. Most other deniers have some other excuse.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. I remember reading something similar yesterday.

by Postman.

[BeHereNow]

3. Oh my beautiful mind! Stop! Stop! It hurts!

Too bad so many remain in denial about who is around our President.
I see from your replies so far those who refuse to examine anything
other than their fantasy world.

BHN

[wryter2000]

8. Obama is Mr. Potter's love child with Darth Vader

Scrooge begged Obama for Christmas off, but Obama made him spend the day driving George Bailey to suicide while he, himself, dined on the carcas of Tiny Tim.

Ho, ho, ho.

[boston bean]

9. Obama interviewed by Brokaw at private Goldman Sachs dinner last year.

WASHINGTON--On May 3, 2007, Barack Obama attended an event at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan that was not on his public schedule and is only now surfacing--a private dinner for Goldman Sachs traders with a discussion on issues moderated for the Wall Street firm by NBC's Tom Brokaw.

Brokaw is the moderator of Tuesday's second presidential debate between Obama and John McCain at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.

The dinner was not a fund-raiser for Obama, then in the early stages of his Democratic primary campaign launched February, 2007. Brokaw interviewed Obama for about 45 minutes on mostly international issues. Brokaw received an honorarium, donated to charity. The Obama campaign called the event a "moderated conversation" when I inquired on Monday.


Brokaw's appearance was arranged through Goldman Sachs--not the Obama campaign. It was the only session Brokaw did for Goldman. Brokaw's honorarium was given to a charity.

The employees of Goldman Sachs collectively would go on to become the top contributors to the Obama campaign.

Bundled together, by Sept. 28, 2008, the latest figures available, Goldman Sachs members or their families contributed $739,521 to Obama, making the firm number one source of donors to the Obama campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. To be clear--Goldman Sachs did not make any contributions (that's not allowed by federal law)-- the money was from individuals connected to the firm. The CRP analysis is of contributions of $200 and more.

The sum does not include money raised by two major Obama fund-raisers: Bruce Heyman, an executive at the firm and James Johnson, a Goldman Sachs board member and former chairman and CEO of Fannie Mae, the failed mortgage giant in the news because of the subprime mortgage crisis that led to the economic collapse.

Johnson was originally tapped by Obama to lead his vice presidential vetting squad until he quit because of his own controversies.


An April 18, 2007 Bloomberg News article about top campaign bundlers noted that Obama addressed the Goldman's annual partners meeting 2006 in Chicago.

edit to add link:

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/10/obama_interviewed_by_brokaw_at.html