Posted on 04/15/2010 8:02:30 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Arrayed around a long mahogany table in the White House state dining room last week, the CEOs of the most powerful financial institutions in the world offered several explanations for paying high salaries to their employees and, by extension, to themselves.
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But President Barack Obama wasnt in a mood to hear them out. He stopped the conversation and offered a blunt reminder of the publics reaction to such explanations. Be careful how you make those statements, gentlemen. The public isnt buying that.
My administration, the president added, is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.
The fresh details of the meeting some never before revealed come from an account provided to POLITICO by one of the participants. A second source inside the meeting confirmed the details, and two other sources familiar with the meeting offered additional information.
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Thug ping
“So if you don’t do what I tell you, I’ll let the public hang you.”
No thuggery here!
Obama: Pitch fork and gun salesman of the decade.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Thug in Chief ping!
When the boy king meets his end, it will make the passing of Kings Herod and Ahab look positively peaceful and joyous in comparison.
And that’s no threat. It is appointed unto men once to die, and then judgment. When Almighty God decides it is time to pull 0bama’s plug, there is no power in Heaven or on Earth (or anywhere else) that will be able to prevent it.
When history issues it’s verdict many years from now, 0bama will be the most reviled and despised ruler in all of U.S. history (and I say ‘ruler’ because he is not, and will NEVER be confirmed to be ‘President’ by Constitutional muster).
Woe unto the usurpin’ Kenyan sonuvabitch.
1) The teachers' union that has been undermining the fabric of our education for 50 years
2) ACORN that has devalued our votes
That’s a pretty biased article, even by Politico’s standards of 2009.
“At each place around the table sat a single glass of water. No ice. For those who finished their glass, no refills were offered. There was no group photograph taken of the CEOs with the president, which typically happens at ceremonial White House gatherings but not at serious strategy sessions.
The only way they could have sent a more Spartan message is if they had served bread along with the water, says a person who attended the meeting. The signal from Obamas body language and demeanor was, Im the president, and youre not.
Neener..neener..neener...’I’m the President and you’re not”
Obama is a punk narcissist! The funny thing is many of these financial titans supported him for President!
The CEOs are not who are outraging the people, and they won’t be carrying pitchforks when they have finally had enough.
Obama is too stupid to realize the pitchforks are for him.
Thanks for this apt and timely reminder of the evil that this usurper and his “administration” is all about.
This US President is delusional and needs to be carried out of OUR white house in a straight jacket before he gets us all killed.
Thinly veiled? I think butt-naked.
Exactly. bttt
I tried not to be too harsh, I left muslim POS off that post.
Sounds like many of them want to return the TARP money as well, but Obama won’t let them. The ONLY reason for this stance on Obama’s part is that it doesn’t fly with his administration’s strategy to demonize the bankers and financial sector heading into the November elections.
This part was very telling:
“Dimon also insisted that hed like to give the governments TARP money back as soon as practical, and asked the president to streamline that process.
But Obama didnt like that idea arguing that the system still needs government capital.....”
and:
“Several CEOs disagreed, arguing instead that returning TARP money was their patriotic duty, that they didnt need it anymore, and that publicity surrounding the return would send a positive signal of confidence to the markets.”
Obama doesn’t want any ‘positive message’ sent to the markets..nor does he want the public to think positively about the financial sector. He needs to demonize them to take the pressure off his epic failure as President.
Hey, that's a nice bank ya got there....
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