4/20/09

Barack Obama: Crime Boss

by Stephen Lendman / April 18th, 2009

Since taking office, Obama, wittingly or otherwise, has headed the largest criminal enterprise in history — the mass looting of national wealth to enrich his Wall Street benefactors. He assembled a rogue economic team of Clinton/Robert Rubin retreads — to fix the current crisis they engineered.

In a March 13 article, (author and former Republican strategist) Kevin Phillips called them “recycled senior (Clinton administration) Democrats (responsible for the) tech mania, deregulation binge and (1997-2000) stock market bubble and crash. (Obama) extend(ed) the (disastrous) mismanagement and pro-Wall Street bias of the 2008 Bush regime bailout.”

He called Geithner and Bernanke “hapless,” the result of their ruinous misjudgments (and, along with Alan Greenspan, complicit) with finance-sector malfeasance.”

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Peacenik is a fan of Obama. Or Peacenik was a fan of Obama. Peacenik is all mixed up. Peacenik thinks Obama is screwing up the finanacial rescue for the benefit of the crooks on Wall St. But maybe Obama knows something Peacenik doesn't know. Obama does a few things that seem reasonable...overtures to Iran and Cuba; then Obama does outrageous things....financial bailout for the banks....screwing the autoworkers union....and turning a blind eye to torture. Peacenik thinks there should be a special prosecutors for torture and Wall St. Can you be president and not be a crime boss? Maybe not.