Obama to Bankers: I’m Standing ‘Between You and the Pitchforks’

The Bamster will be facing a pitchfork of his own come (re)election time.

Good for Obama – now if he would release the torture memos and let the world see the evil, corruption and international law breaking that took place under the last Republican administration we could really get the pitch forks out!

I see a lot of the arrogant people I have run into over the last 65 years in this administration. My way or the highway is how they put it to people who did not agree with them. Really coming on strong out of Washington.

Odd how the president talks a big talk when in his comfort zone. You know, in DC, New York, or LA. There, behind closed doors, he rants the anti-capitalism puke, once again threatening private enterprise and the way of life that has, for the most part, made our great country what it is.
Or perhaps his new comfort zone in Europe, where he spins his socialist spill, steadily trashing America, talks of the leadership role of Europe in the world, as if it were the French that ran the Nazi invasion out of France. You know, the same Europe that gave the world the Nazi’s, socialism, Communism, etc. And he speaks of change and a new AmeriKa.
Then he will most likely come back to the new AmeriKa, and have a town hall meeting in LA, NY or DC. But to flip his own words on him, don’t come to the heart land. For there, the only thing between the pitch forks and himself are, well, nothing!

Yes, sngeorgia, I think. The rest of your post … just gibberish.

Assuming the reporting is correct, what the Pres. said is true. The American people are totally fed up with the corporate greed, arrogance, and stupidity that caused this mess. The neo-hooverians should be happy they have Pres. Obama in office and not Teddy Roosevelt. That’s right. We had this debate 100 years ago and the forces of greed lost then too.

B.Bear….people like yourself are going to be absolutely stunned when you see what your Messiah has done to the AmeriKan piggy bank once the full force of the spending package, TARP, the trillion the reasury floated to the federal reserve only a week or so ago, the massive $3.7 trillion budget, which is the most irresponsible piece of legislation ever passed in this country.
You think corporate greed has this country in a fix? You just wait until we are running those $1 trillion per year deficits, wait until 2019 when the interest alone on our deficit is $806 billion (more than last years deficit).
Just think, you’ll get to explain how our generation bankrupted our country to your grandchildrean and great-grandchildren. Maybe you should get a new calculator or something.

ABC ran the story of Fannie and Freddie $210M in bonuses for about 1 hour.
Yet, the story about Michelle’s outfits is still a headline. First thing first.
Right?

I love to suck Obama’s C0CK

l0uis you are cum drunk

Your crooks rode off to Texas in January, midget minds.

Hee, Hee.

William:”Really coming on strong out of Washington.”
Yeah, almost like he’s a leader or something.

hey sngeorgia, your brain might have a hard time with this …. my conscience is clear BECAUSE I didn’t vote for the Bamster or Bushie Boy, and there are lots of us out here who will do whatever we legally can to make sure the Bamster never gets reelected. You, on the other hand, should be ashamed of yourself for what you and yours have heaped on future generations. You should be ashamed of yourself, sngeorgia – ashamed. You are pitiful.

Your crooks rode off to Texas in January, midget minds.
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And possibly soon, Texas will ride off into the sunset, leaving socialism behind, along with most of the energy you consume. But that’s okay, Odumba will give you solar panels, wind turbines, and camels for transportation!

Try going to say Bank of America and opening a savings account now that they have all been bailed out. They will tell you that all savings accounts have a 3 withdrawls per month minimum or you cant have a savings (that pays interest) only a checking (where they make money off you). These are the greedy institutions Obama supports. Banks dont want to help people anymore unless they can tie up your money for a long time (for fear of losing it on bad investments).

TxBob – You continue to spout “socialist” this and that regarding the Obama administration. What policies are socialist and why are they “socialist”?

Obama playing his usual chicago thuggish ways. It was the acorn people that were protesting the workers at AIG. I wonder who sent them. I just love this new admin. Don’t pay taxes get put into a cabinet position, have an illegal aunt sucking the tax dollars from the ones that earn it. Release Al Quaida prisoners and put them into apartments in the US. Spend all of our tax dollars on stupid crap! But the Queen of England an Ipod. Buy a 25 set of DVD’s that don’t even work in that country! Go over seas & down talk his own people! Fund abortions and then want to go talk to a catholic school at their commencement! Some one please wake me up from this gruesome nightmare

I don’t buy the reasoning behind paying higher salary is to attract international talent. I’m sure if any of the execs were to work in another country they would not have the salary, bonuses and perks that they would in America.

Posted by: TxBoB | Apr 3, 2009 8:33:19 “And possibly soon, Texas will ride off into the sunset, leaving socialism behind, along with most of the energy you consume. But that’s okay, Odumba will give you solar panels, wind turbines, and camels for transportation”
Is this where you supposedly cecede from the US? LOL Yea, that’s a wet dream junior.

LOL….idiots. Do you really think that Obama didn’t know about the last minute changes that gave AIG the bonuses? Wake up! It was his administration that gave them that “loophole” at the 11th hour. My dear God, why are Americans so dumb?

The Obama haters are out in numbers again tonight. Let them have their fun, they have little else to be happy about in the sad and sorry lives they appear to lead.
Our President has the full support of most Americans, and based on his trip abroad. most people on the planet. That makes it all the more depressing for those who love to hate.
May the good Lord bless them and ease their pain.

LOL! I love this! Now the bankers are finally understanding the meaning of the phrase, “What goes around comes around.” The American taxpaying public is not stupid and is not playing around anymore. If this motley crew of avaricious, sneaky, arrogant, self-important, prevaricating, self-serving, conceited, thickheaded, money-lusting thieves messes up again…. they’ll all go home with some very sore butts from the pitchforks!

All of you Obama-haters are truly laughable. If you had one single valid point to back up your accusations I’d take you seriously, but you don’t seem to think you need any. You’re all still stuck on his birth certificate or whatever.
Y’all just keep talkin’ your trash. The intelligent people of this country can ignore you quite easily.

Jaylah — The intelligence of the typical Obama supporter was already established on election day by reporters taking exit polls data and asking pertinent questions —- Yes, Obama supporter’s couldn’t define what Obama was “FOR” or “AGAINST”, they just like his speeches!!!

Here’s a piece from the Washington Post, I am not surprised that ABC is not covering this… but other media are starting to talk…
Administration Seeks an Out On Bailout Rules for Firms
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/03/AR2009040303910.html?hpid=topnews

Is there anybody who still maintains an account with these banks? Move your money to a responsible bank. Stop supporting these clowns.

egw: You make two things very clear. You didn’t see the speech that you reference (incorrectly) and you don’t know what a telepromptor is used for. BTW, only tyrants are insulted by the acknowledgement of faults and mistakes. Doing so is the opposite of self-righteousness; also known as humility.

egw’s ranting — Just had a good laugh while reading your post egw. Have you ever wondered who the foreign dignataries and media are talking about when they speak of the division,hate, and hysteria directed at the Obama Administration? Read what you just posted, then explain to us all about your patriotism.

Some bankers gave explanations for the industry’s high salaries, such as “competing for talent on an international market.
Like a gay guy in the military always used to say back in 1976, “Spare me. If I wanted bull….I would go to the ranch.”
The bankers need to such it up & join the rest of us. No more with the top 2% of the population getting 25% of the income, 20% getting half the income and half the population making due with 13% of the income. The rich can rationalize anything, but the poor know the truth.

You know alot of people forget that each president inherits something from the previous guy-Johnson got the Vietnam “conflict”, Clinton got “Reagonomics”, Baby Bush got a surplus of money and largest clusterf**k of “intel” on terrorism. Obama got Baby Bush’s TARP, Big Bank arrogance and too many people wanting to place the last 8 years on his sh*tlist. People- Don’t judge until at least a year has gone by- let him make his own mistakes but Do Not Blame the new guy for the other guy’s mistakes. In order to make money (and get out of this recession) you DO need to spend money. Just remember who gave authorized $700 Billion -WITH NO STRINGS ATTACHED SHOWING HOW MONEY WAS TO BE SPENT -IT WAS NOT OBAMA!!!! He at least got the BIG 3 to agree to present plans on how and when they would tart paying back money!!!!

I voted for Obama but he seems to be making a lot of decisions that the Bush Administration would have made.
We are supposed to think he’s being hard on the banksters because they only got water. Let’s not forget that he’s quenching their insatiable thirst for money with trillions of dollars.
The new Bloomberg article says it all: Financial Rescue Nears GDP as Pledges Top $12.8 Trillion.
When you try to fathom that our government is handing out $12.8 trillion to the banksters, you realize the bonuses and cups of water are a distraction from the quickness at which our money is being given to thieves.
We need not fight between left and right. Unite! Throw away party loyalty and analyze each issue one-by-one. Let’s be true to ourselves rather than the party line.

All Democrats who read this post: BARACK WON!:) Bush? Bush who? BUSH WON! YOU LOST! THAT WAS THEN! THIS IS NOW!ROFLMAO Get over it, seriously…It makes you look desperate. Haggle about the future, not the past. WAR CRIMES! WAR CRIMES! BOOHOOHOO! STOLEN ELECTION! BLAHBLAHBLAH! If you’re always playing defense you’ll never win the game.

I wouldn’t mind if our fine president just stepped aside and gave me the pitchfork. However I would prefer a logchain and a truck.

A piece of grandstanding from Obama meaning nothing because via the signals given due to ongoing payments, refusal to investigate, oversee, or control what they spend their money on, and refusal to tax the bonuses they have no need or reason to change their ways.
“They found themselves gathered at a table with nothing more than a single glass of water at each seat. No food, no other beverages, no ice — no refills, even.” …..Strange statement that one. Most of us would find that ordinary everyday treatment. The CEOs see it as maltreatment or lack of respect?

Financial Industry Paid Millions to Obama Aide
Obama = Just words…
By JEFF ZELENY
Published: April 3, 2009
WASHINGTON — Lawrence H. Summers, the top economic adviser to President Obama, earned more than $5 million last year from the hedge fund D. E. Shaw and collected $2.7 million in speaking fees from Wall Street companies that received government bailout money, the White House disclosed Friday in releasing financial information about top officials.

Nice of the President to hold back the nagry mob after he and his cronies incited the mob.

Pitchforks, like in the Frankenstein movies? So called investment bankers have looted America while government regulators stood by mute, and I’m inclined to think they should get exactly what they deserve, whether pitchforks, or whatever – they need to feel the wrath of the rest of us who ponyed up the loot they took. Retail banks transformed from banks into money stores through some clever marketing taken directly from the cell phone kiosks at the mall – they hired the same cell phone salespeople to originate mortgages, and threw common sense out the window to give money to people who couldn’t afford to pay it back. Maybe pitchforks are the appropriate response to the retail bankers, too. Obama is no hero, seems to be using this crisis to further his socialist objectives, and he will be booted in a few years – the only question is how much harm he will do in the meantime, and how lasting it will be. I’m not at all sure where my country has gone in the past few months, I don’t recognize it anymore.

This is just another show by Obama. Obama will give the banks more taxpayers money. On April 15th we have to pay our taxes so that the money can go for more bailouts. It just makes me sick.

Obama is in no position to tell anybody how to run business of any kind. I would not hire him to run a snow cone stand because HE KNOWS NOTHING. He is an inexperienced lawyer who has never had to make payroll, develop business or risk anything. He goes to europe and tell them that America is arrogant? He is arrogant and I personally am sick of the constant teleprompter speeches.

the comments here for the past two days are indicative of the malaise in our society.

Apparently the anti-Obama idiots like to congregate here.
Posted by: stuart2560
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They’re just letting off steam, because their
previous leader Emperor Bush, did absolutely
nothing with the banking industry.

TxBob; and others, who are either too blind or too ignorant to realize the truth, you need to spend a few minutes absorbing the recent article by Simon Johnson, recently published in the Atlantic. Simon Johnson, a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, was the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund during 2007 and 2008. He blogs about the financial crisis at baselinescenario.com, along with James Kwak, who also contributed to this essay. Without the volumes of print it would take to further elucidate the present financial crisis, this article lays it out in very clear terms. I know a few may go read and actually understand, while many remain ignorant of the facts, but it’s there for you to read and absorb, and it’s the plain and simple facts in a nutshell. Here’s the opening:
“The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is at the center of many emerging-market crises. If the IMF’s staff could speak freely about the U.S., it would tell us what it tells all countries in this situation: recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform. And if we are to prevent a true depression, we’re running out of time.”
Here’s the URL:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice

It is unfortunate we cannot let those banks fail, I would love to stick a pitchfork in them and call them DONE, but then -I am not resposible for all of you and the countrys economy, just myself..so i can march and protest against the banks themselves and still support what the president has to do…While the small thinkers here-continue to use their fingers to play in their food..is it no wonder..”the great minds of the bush presidency” are represented here????? LOL

I am in alignment with most of cowgirl’s thoughts/suggestions.
And frankly the whole thing makes me want to take a shower!

I love reading the comments on these pages now that the Republican party is so in the dumps that Newt Gingrich is warning of a third party. You Righties are all over the map, still rambling on about the same old tired arguments. If anyone needs to move on, it’s the Conservative movement, who are stuck in the 20th Century, still using racism and fear to frame virtually every major argument. GET OVER IT!
President Obama, I never get tired of saying that, is trying to save Capitalism from destroying itself. The Corporate status quo, Bush and the Republicans screwed things up so bad that the system is teetering on the brink of disaster.
Instead of crying the blues and blaming our President for destroying America in two months of office, Righties should try rebuilding the shattered remnants of their failing party, or just grin and bare it. You’ve become the Southern party of whiners with no ideas. Good luck with that!

george, I feel your pain..if we all quit fighting over democracts vs republicans and put that energy into insisting the banks get drug around by their ears, instead of treated with kid gloves…we might get some real change done..small banks have done a great job and should be rewarded..I am not convinced we shouldn’t let them fail..but I am not sure the psycology of the american people could handle it..

Cowgirl…
ahhh… what?
This Democrat vs. Republican is a sideshow to keep people from looking at things without bias. Instead those that are 100% Deomcrat or 100% Republican are neither, but truly instead thy are 100% fooled.
Folks, don’t be fooled read about our History. Read “The Creature from Jekyll Island” It is a researched book that will open your eyes to the fact that even your beloved OBama is in bed. He nothing but a puppet with control as his goal, same as Bush just much more in your face about it.
We are losing our freedoms, slowly, but we are. We need to get together as a common group of people with a common purpose. The keep America FREE, to keep our government SMALL and working for US, the PEOPLE. Not the people working for the government. What is happening right now is truly a disturbing power grab.

The only reason Obama is standing between bankers and pitchforks is because he doesn’t want his wallstreet friends to get hurt.