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<blockquote data-quote="Catatonic" data-source="post: 431351" data-attributes="member: 7966"><p>Quote:</p><p> <span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="color: Blue">L</span></span>[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="color: Blue">[SIZE=-1]ast weekend, I searched the newspapers for a listing of all the economic advisors President-elect Obama had met with in Chicago the previous Friday. I wanted to see which ones, among the 21 chosen advisers, represented the economic needs and concerns of wage workers, the poor, homeless and elderly. When I finally found a complete listing of names in the Wall Street Journal, I was disappointed to see that “The Obama Braintrust” included billionaires, major corporate CEO’s, high ranking government officials, but no one representing labor, social and human services, or the progressive organizations that supposedly gave Obama his biggest boost to the White House.[/SIZE]</span>[/FONT]<span style="color: Blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"></span> [SIZE=-1][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="color: Blue">I should not have been surprised. The President-elects campaign was bankrolled by the largest contributions from corporate America every recorded. Barack Obama was the chosen candidate of the Daley Dynasty—the enormously powerful Chicago political machine that Bill Clinton called upon to assure the passage of NAFTA, and which also godfathered Obama’s new Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.</span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"></span> </p><p>----------------------------------------</p><p></p><p>What did you expect?</p><p>He is a smart guy and a good politician.</p><p>He told all those starry-eyed goobers what they wanted to hear in order to get elected.</p><p>My sincere hope is that he governs from the center just like Clinton and Bush did.</p><p>[/FONT][/SIZE]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Catatonic, post: 431351, member: 7966"] Quote: [SIZE=6][COLOR=Blue]L[/COLOR][/SIZE][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][COLOR=Blue][SIZE=-1]ast weekend, I searched the newspapers for a listing of all the economic advisors President-elect Obama had met with in Chicago the previous Friday. I wanted to see which ones, among the 21 chosen advisers, represented the economic needs and concerns of wage workers, the poor, homeless and elderly. When I finally found a complete listing of names in the Wall Street Journal, I was disappointed to see that “The Obama Braintrust” included billionaires, major corporate CEO’s, high ranking government officials, but no one representing labor, social and human services, or the progressive organizations that supposedly gave Obama his biggest boost to the White House.[/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][COLOR=Blue] [/COLOR] [SIZE=-1][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][COLOR=Blue]I should not have been surprised. The President-elects campaign was bankrolled by the largest contributions from corporate America every recorded. Barack Obama was the chosen candidate of the Daley Dynasty—the enormously powerful Chicago political machine that Bill Clinton called upon to assure the passage of NAFTA, and which also godfathered Obama’s new Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. [/COLOR] ---------------------------------------- What did you expect? He is a smart guy and a good politician. He told all those starry-eyed goobers what they wanted to hear in order to get elected. My sincere hope is that he governs from the center just like Clinton and Bush did. [/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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