{"id":899,"date":"2011-06-23T12:37:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T16:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=899"},"modified":"2011-06-23T13:40:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T17:40:10","slug":"dont-call-us-%e2%80%93-well-call-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=899","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Call Us \u2013 We’ll Call You"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Sorry I’m bit late with this one; I’d originally planned to do this about a week or so ago, except the Bahrain Grand Prix story got really hot and shoved everything else out of the way.<\/p>\n

Anyway… as you’ll recall, Obama got himself “elected” in ’08 by pandering to Liberals and Progressives with a lot of big talk about the “fat cats” in the banks and on Wall Street \u2013 even as the Democrats were beating out the GOP in donations from Wall Street. Then, as you’ll also recall, Obama spent the next two years alienating Progressives by pandering to the banks and Wall Street, and appeasing the rightists.<\/p>\n

So, then, a week or so back, Obama called together a bunch of the aforementioned financial industry “fat cats” to spend some time shuffling for dollars<\/a> for his re-election campaign. The banksters, needless to say, felt rather alienated by all his anti-bank and anti-Wall Street rhetoric he dished out while pandering to the Progressives and many ’08 donors were none too keen on the idea of supplying more cash for Obama’s ’12 campaign.<\/p>\n

Oh, well, Mr. Obama… as they say, “that’s show biz”.<\/p>\n

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Sorry I’m bit late with this one; I’d originally planned to do this about a week or so ago, except the Bahrain Grand Prix story got really hot and shoved everything else out of the way. Anyway… as you’ll recall, Obama got himself “elected” in ’08 by pandering to Liberals and Progressives with a lot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,158],"tags":[349,162,350,351],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-obamarama","tag-wall-street","tag-bailout","tag-bankers","tag-financial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}