Reply #110: Now finally you are getting to see the Real Obama

[jaycal]

The issue of bonuses is a diversion. The amount is "only" $165 million, less than one-thousandth of what was paid to AIG counter-parties (including Goldman and foreign banks).

If you want to know how much influence Goldman has over the government, you can read: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.sm... or http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the...

It is funny that politicians (including Obama) have lined up to denounce AIG but hardly anyone mentions Goldman.

As this article http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/03/10/top_stories/d... notes, Obama got $1 million from Goldman which got back $6 billion. Apparently Obama got 4 times as much from Goldman compared to McCain.

As Bob Ostertag writes about Obama's fund-raising "Just think through the basics: if on one side you have over a million people giving you little donations that make up 45% of your budget, and on the other side you have a handful of people giving you big donations that make up 55% of your budget, whose telephone calls are you going to take?"

My theory is that Bush was so bad, that people lost sight of what McCain actually was. And add to that the media's love affair with the "Obama story".

Paulson (ex-CEO of Goldman) sits in a meeting that includes Blankfein (current CEO of Goldman) the Sept 13 weekend when the government was bailing out AIG (led by Liddy, a former director of Goldman installed as AIG CEO by Paulson) which leads to Goldman getting $13 billion.

Also Geithner is a Rubin (a third ex-Goldman CEO) protege. His top aide is a former Goldman lobbyist.

AIG's financial products division is the low hanging fruit, which the politicians can beat up for their publicity. The employees there simply don't have the kind of connections Goldman has.

This is really become a "bipartisan kleptocracy". Bush was the original "Nightmare". Obama is "Nightmare, the Sequel".