What did people think they were getting when they elected this Chicago thug?
And now people are surprised at what they got? The CEO probably voted for and raised money for ZERO.
Actually, this happened under the Bush administration, didn’t it?
Uhh, GWB did this.
“And now people are surprised at what they got? The CEO probably voted for and raised money for ZERO.”
Ann Coulter has pointed this out many times. Wall Street was one of the biggest contributors to the zerobama campaign.
Another example:
Crain’s New York recently had an article about a $5,000 per table tribute to the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Barney Frank. One of “Fwank’s” biggest admirers and lobbyists is Rick Lazio, a former GOP congressman and a J.P. Morgan executive (I believe he ran for senator of NY against Hitlery when Giuliani was diagnosed with cancer).
So there you have it. Mainstream GOP support Fwank, who desires the power to set salaries and wages for private businesses, even those that never took a dime of bailout money. According to the Crain’s article, another lobbyist calls Fwank “a pro-capitalist liberal”, i.e., a typical fascist (”fascism” being that form of socialism in which private individuals retain nominal title to ownership of property but have none of the rights of actual ownership — they produce what the state tells them to produce, set prices however the state dictates, set wages according to state diktat, etc.).
Just as the left hoodwinked people into voting for them by usurping the classical term “liberal”, so too do they lie to people now by calling themselves and their socialist agenda “pro-capitalist.”
I don't know what they thought, but GWB is from Texas, not Chicago. He did contribute to Obama, though but this treatment by the Bush administration wouldn't have been an issue, coming later.