Posted on 05/14/2010 1:15:27 PM PDT by Nachum
Wall Street bigs snubbed President Obama last night at a big-bucks campaign fund-raiser at The St. Regis hotel in Midtown.
The gala -- where tickets went for as much as $50,000 a couple and whose proceeds were going to Democratic candidates -- featured stars such as Sarah Jessica Parker and Democratic Party regulars but few, if any, executives from the city's leading financial institutions.
That was no accident, according to Democrats on Capitol Hill and Wall Street sources who say those in the financial industry are tired of being the punching bag for Obama and Democrats crafting legislation to tightly regulate them.
"They may support individuals, but not the party," one House Democratic lawmaker said.
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The list, ping
What’s to say that they were not invited to make O look like a man of the little guy. Lets wait and see the contribution record before we get excited.
Exactly.
Obama told his Wall Street buddies not to show up and they agreed.
This is just Kabuki theatre.
Wall Street still supports the Kenyan.
Don’t be fooled by the spin.
Pure Kabuki theatre for the dumb masses who still believe the MSM. They will try to use this to paint Obamao as a “champion” of the little guy tilting at the windmills of “big banks, big stocks, big money” when in actuality they are the puppetmasters holding the strings.
This sort of thing actually made me think that the Wall Street execs were smartly avoiding being publicly dissed. It might very well be that.
“when in actuality they are the puppetmasters holding the strings.”
The Wall Street execs? Perhaps Obama doesn’t realize that he’s vulnerable to them rather than the other way around.
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