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

By: The PJ Tatler » David Brooks Is Still Fooled by Obama

The PJ Tatler » David Brooks Is Still Fooled by Obama — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:35:36 +0000

[...] now had more than two years to watch the president assail “fat cat bankers” and then declare himself the only thing standing between them and an angry mob. He has had ample time to consider what Obama [...]

By: NickRCawkes

NickRCawkes — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:17:38 +0000

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

By: JaylahPriest

JaylahPriest — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:40:44 +0000

I guess a lot of you just sorta forgot that your hero Bush was the one that signed TARP, right?

By: Jakekub

Jakekub — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:57:34 +0000

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.

By: Ronald

Ronald — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:06:06 +0000

Barack Obama is same a real Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy of best Democrat, and also good vice president turned into President of Harry Truman and Lynson Johnson. Same as Jimmy Carter was honestly good person, too. Yes, I like best Democrat that are better than a strink is Ronald Reagan, George Bush, George Bush, Jr as same a real Herbert Hoover of creulest mean Republican poeple.

By: cowgirl

cowgirl — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:50:54 +0000

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..

By: George

George — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:18:31 +0000

Cowgirl, I did move my account to a smaller bank here in Texas and two years later is bought out by Compass. That screwed up my account and I started getting nickel and dimed to death.
When we took out a mortgage to buy a house, we were at a small regional bank. Bank of America bought it out. My next mortgage payment after that got credited to someone elses account–took three months to get them to recognize the fact that I had sent the payment in on time (copy of the canceled check and their endorsement) and five years to get it off my credit history.
$35 for an overdraft or return check, $32 to stop payment on a check,
$2 each time you use another bank’s ATM (you can’t use my bank’s ATM in Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, etc. because they don’t happen to operate in those states even as big as it is nationally).
The “too big” banks need to cut up into smaller banks so that you don’t have to call Mississippi for one thing, Ohio for another, Texas for still another. Either that or require them to have central location in each state that can handle all your questions where you live. That might require them to restructure their salary scale for the top executives and pare down the bonuses–what probably would happen is raising the fees charged to customers.
Now that I’ve vented a bit, I don’t feel that much better over all, just a bit.

By: wise1@soapbloxdotcom

wise1@soapbloxdotcom — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:10:25 +0000

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!

By: CA Dem

CA Dem — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:38:32 +0000

I voted Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I’ve decided to marry my horse……………I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies’ profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn’t……………….I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would……………………I voted Democrat because freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it……………….I voted Democrat because when we pull out of Iraq I trust that the bad guys will stop what they’re doing because they now think we’re good people……………..I voted Democrat because I’m way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves………………….I voted Democrat because I believe that people who can’t tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don’t start driving a Prius…………………I voted Democrat because I’m not concerned about the slaughter of millions of babies so long as we keep all death row inmates alive………………..I voted Democrat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as THEY see fit…………………….I voted Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters………………I voted Democrat because my head is so firmly planted up my a$$ that it is unlikely that I’ll ever have another point of view.

By: Darryl the Contractor

Darryl the Contractor — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:39:17 +0000

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