A banker here, a banker there…
President Carebear, as noted in today’s News Briefs, looks to be appointing a banker to be his NEC chairman; it looks like he will be appointing yet another banker from JPMorgan Chase, Bill Daley (brother of current Chicago Mayor Richard Daley), to replace former Chief of Staff and future Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emmanuel.
WaPo tells us…
…Daley, 62, is a political heavyweight who would command immediate respect from the Washington establishment. He led the Commerce Department during President Bill Clinton’s second term and now is the Midwest chairman of JPMorgan & Co…Still, by appointing Daley – a free-trade stalwart who helped secure passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993 – Obama could risk further aggravating liberals already wary of the president.”
Well, another Clinton retread, and the guy who helped ship our jobs overseas is about to get a key to the oval office. All I can say is at least Daley isn’t from Goldman Sachs.
These banksters are enemies of the American people. Obama keeps siding with them just like the other Republicans.
Well, I guess, Dem or Repub, it all comes down to the same thing: The Old Boy’s Network. and more Wall Street Boys, at that.
“Hope and change,” ho hum. Good slogan, but pure bullshit….
So is it a given that the chosen one will be working for Chase come January 2013?
Mr. Burns -
I’m sure President Carebear will not be on the payroll – that would be unseemly – but I feel fairly certain he will be giving speeches for an honorarium of sorts, just like all the other living presidents do (except Jimmy, who remains the best ex-President in the history of the Republic).
Rgds,
TG
Ten: Obama will be named president of Harvard, but will supplement that measly income with speaking engagements. This is something a friend has predicted from day one, and I believe him to be correct. A directorship at Carlyle is also a possibility.
Well, Tengrain, we certainly have no disagreements on this one. Except for the Jimmy “Trilateral-Commission-Zbigniew-Brzezinski-Mujaheedeen-Al-Qaida-Clientification-Of-Egypt-Stagflation” Carter part. He´s not as bad as Cheney (W was acting a role), better than Gore would have been. Better than Clinton and Bush Sr. Toss-up with Reagan and Ford, each of whom had a few virtues as well as vices. Better than Nixon, but not by much. Toss-up with LBJ. Worse than JFK and DDE. Better than Truman. Slightly better than FDR. Toss-up with Hoover. Better than Coolidge. Toss-up with Harding. Worse than Taft. Better than Teddy Roosevelt. Better than Wilson. Better than McKinley. Better than Hayes (But not as good as Tilden would have been). Better than Johnson. Better than Lincoln and everybody who preceded him up to Jackson whom he couldn´t hold a candle to. Toss-up with Van Buren. Worse than John Quincy Adams. Worse than Madison. Better than Monroe. Worse than Jefferson. Better than John Adams. Worse than Washington. And way, way, way worse than my favorite US president, Grover Cleveland. He really was the best one. He was probably the most “left-wing” populist president in American history and he also left people the fuck alone, US residents and — mmm, Smithers — potential colonial prey alike.
The Banksters (inclusive of the Federal Reserve, who are largely Democrat, the M-I-C who are largely Republican, the Privatized-Prison-”Security”-Complex, who are a mixed bag, Big Insurance which is largely Democrat, Big Pharma which is largely Republican, Big Agribusiness which is largely Republican, Big Manufacturing, which is largely Republican, Big Tech which is an even split, Big Entertainment/Sports which is largely Democrat, Big Israel which is evenly split, Big Coal which is an even split, Big Consumer Products which is largely Republican, Big Oil which is largely Republican, Big Weapons which are an even split, and Big Fascist Automotive which is evenly split (but which managed to produce the only bonafide hero in American “business” today) are ALL HORRIBLE BEYOND ANYONE´S CONCEPTION, the worst being THE BANKSTERS, BIG OIL AND BIG WEAPONS.
No matter how they lean as to which cheek of the one-party ass they give more to, each special interest via their K-Street stooges manage to corrupt every single national politician to the last person, including Sanders, Paul, Kucinich, Jones, Moran, and Lynch. You may see it as Democrat versus Republican. I see it as 1-Party Imperialist Totalitarian Corporatism.
But on The Carebear´s last — er — hire, we are in complete accord.
I like PISSED-IN-NYC´s prediction for Obama 2011, President of The Worst University In The USA*, as the Pawlenty era on Pennsylvania Avenue begins and is worse than the Obama era which will have been worse than the Cheney era.
*It is the worst university in the USA because they teach accounting with the “case method,” they have their exams AFTER winter break, and because W was a product of their wretched business school and The Carebear a product of their wretched law school. best words on this subject come from Gerald Celente: “Harvard, Princeton Yale, bullets, bombs and bribes.”
Tengrain, I believe you attended the finest private university in the EMPIRE and I attended the best public university in the EMPIRE. We both screwed up though. All of the top European universities — Oxbridge, Bologna, LSE, Moscow State, Salamanca and The Sorbonne — are practically free of charge, give you a fancy degree yet require you to do no work at all!