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Obama's a Fraud; Elect the TARP Queen

Time to face it, Obama's not delivering

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 23, 2009 10:04 AM CDT

(Newser) – Almost a year into his presidency, Barack Obama appears to suck. He hasn’t closed Guantanamo Bay, health care reform is a debacle, and worst of all, he’s “completely whiffed” on fixing Wall Street, “siding with the financial status quo, who happen to be the bad guys,” writes Matt Taibbi. Obama and the Democrats seem to prefer their generous corporate pals to their voters. Taibbi’s solution: Get Harvard's Elizabeth Warren—she runs the Congressional Oversight Panel, which oversees the TARP bailout—to run against Obama.

Warren has plenty of credibility and truly gets the financial stuff, but she’s a genuine crusader for the little guy, outraged over the bungled bailout. “I simply cannot see her suddenly flipping and holding $2000-a-plate fundraisers with Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon.” Running against Obama in 2012 might help Republicans, but we simply need to oust the corporate butt-kissers. Obama, a willfully iconic politician, now looks like a “symbol of anti-change.”

Congressional Oversight Panel Chair Elizabeth Warren conducts a hearing on the TARP, Wednesday, June 24, 2009, on Capitol Hill.
Congressional Oversight Panel Chair Elizabeth Warren conducts a hearing on the TARP, Wednesday, June 24, 2009, on Capitol Hill.   (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Someone needs to let Barack Obama know that someone else’s face is going to start being silk-screened on t-shirts at political rallies if he doesn’t get real on the finance stuff. - Matt Taibbi

Sure, a good loyal party member would never take an axe to a powerful and popular incumbent. But really, what’s the alternative? How can we keep voting for these guys, when they never, ever deliver? - Matt Taibbi

The way I look at it, the problem with the Democratic Party is not the voters, it’s the 19 or 20 people who are paying for the campaigns and sitting in at those meetings with Rahm and Billy Tauzin. - Matt Taibbi

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COMMENTS
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Face-Of-RNC
Nov 11, 2009 3:45 AM CST
Peaderkey prays now. Soon, he thinks, a christian Iran will exist in America and we'll all be headed to heaven.
USAHomeofthebrave
Oct 31, 2009 3:04 AM CDT
amen elaine.
kokuaguy
Oct 24, 2009 12:00 PM CDT
Was that really necessary, LK? Your venom seems way out of proportion to the remark it supposedly responds to.

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