NEW YORK - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told Wall Street investors Monday that several of them have been too focused on their own gain at the expense of struggling Americans and echoed Franklin Delano Roosevelt's call for a "reappraisal of values".
Obama prides himself on delivering tough messages directly to the source, and his address at the NASDAQ Marketsite was another example. He said a "what's good for me is good enough" mentality has crept into parts of the business world while working men and women toil longer hours and still struggle to pay for health care, tuition and taxes.
"If we are honest, I think we must admit that those who have benefited from the new global marketplace and that includes almost everyone in this room have not always concerned themselves with the losers in this new economy," the Illinois senator said.
"The danger with this mentality isn't just that it offends our morals, it's that it endangers our markets," Obama said.
Economic experts including former Commerce secretary Bill Daley, former Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson and University of Chicago economist Austan D. Goolsbee helped Obama with the speech, which risks alienating some Wall Street supporters. But Obama said in a recent interview with The Associated Press that he is determined not just to campaign by telling people what they want to hear, but to win support for an agenda for change.
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this stuff writes itself...so we should pay losers for playing the game? Can we give them a trophy too? Maybe a bust of Walter Mondale!
This kind of outcome based free market will lead to more problems than he can fix...much less pay for.
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This guy makes Bush look like a Rhodes Scholar.
The "losers" of this economy? People like blown who is sponging off the gubment and proud of it. Screw people like that who refuse to help themselves. Someone should remind the magic negro that socialism doesn't work.
Obama and Hildabeast both are so "anti-business" as to be comical. They want to be all things to all people in their struggle to gain votes.
Who in their right mind would hire a broker that didn't take financial gains as his No. 1 objective? Whose benefit is Obama championing this latest "campaign" chastisement of buisness towards anyway? He difinitely isn't helping the small investor trying to get the highest return possible on their money.
Leave the stock exchange and securities commission do their jobs and police Wall Street rather than stand before the people and blow his pompous horn with his lame attempts at being the moral voice of America......
Someone tell me again how this turd surfaced with such "high credentials" as to think he is qualified to be President??????????
This guy makes Bush look like a Rhodes Scholar.
The "losers" of this economy? People like blown who is sponging off the gubment and proud of it. Screw people like that who refuse to help themselves. Someone should remind the magic negro that socialism doesn't work.
Are you talking about the same Bush who stated to the Nation?
"We have to deny them the tools and recruitements"
The magic negro???
Obama and Hildabeast both are so "anti-business" as to be comical. They want to be all things to all people in their struggle to gain votes.
Who in their right mind would hire a broker that didn't take financial gains as his No. 1 objective? Whose benefit is Obama championing this latest "campaign" chastisement of buisness towards anyway? He difinitely isn't helping the small investor trying to get the highest return possible on their money.
Leave the stock exchange and securities commission do their jobs and police Wall Street rather than stand before the people and blow his pompous horn with his lame attempts at being the moral voice of America......
Someone tell me again how this turd surfaced with such "high credentials" as to think he is qualified to be President??????????
The same quesstion could be raised about W. Obama probably doesn't matter as Team Clinton seems to be coming on strong on the Dem side. Thompson needs to get to work
Yes, that same W. Obama makes him look like a genius when he makes these stupid comments. At least when W makes a stupid comment, it is an accident. Obama actually means to say this crap.
Obama is the magic negro.
Are you talking about the same Bush who stated to the Nation?
"We have to deny them the tools and recruitements"
The magic negro???
The same quesstion could be raised about W. Obama probably doesn't matter as Team Clinton seems to be coming on strong on the Dem side. Thompson needs to get to work
I believe an extensive business background and a Governorship hold far more in the way of experience than a greenhorn Sen from nowhere in the business world. Thompson will make his mark at the appropriate time. Traditionally the race doesn't start untill the primaries, but the Dems feel the need to push aside their current duties and begin "bashing" each other AND the Republicans.
The "Clinton Machine" could self destruct if they can't keep the campaign contribution problems swept under the rug. The media "surprisingly" doesn't push this issue. Hmmmm, I wonder why.....
Hillary's "new" Health Plan should open some eyes if viewed for what it is, Socialized Medicine. The ignorant at the bottom of her voting pool will view it as "Manna" from the high towers and think it will actually help them. What it will do is add more tax burder to the working man and more overhead to business pushing more jobs offshore. Hillary nor Obama seem to pick up on this point in their quest for power.
By the way, I actually "hate" Hillary. She is evil and conniving with a self centered agenda contrary to what this country is about. No contempt, just "hate". Plus she sounds like a complete fool when she screams......And those pulling guard ugly asse legs, damn what was Bill looking at anyway??????????:devil:
I believe an extensive business background and a Governorship hold far more in the way of experience than a greenhorn Sen from nowhere in the business world. Thompson will make his mark at the appropriate time. Traditionally the race doesn't start untill the primaries, but the Dems feel the need to push aside their current duties and begin "bashing" each other AND the Republicans.
The "Clinton Machine" could self destruct if they can't keep the campaign contribution problems swept under the rug. The media "surprisingly" doesn't push this issue. Hmmmm, I wonder why.....
Hillary's "new" Health Plan should open some eyes if viewed for what it is, Socialized Medicine. The ignorant at the bottom of her voting pool will view it as "Manna" from the high towers and think it will actually help them. What it will do is add more tax burder to the working man and more overhead to business pushing more jobs offshore. Hillary nor Obama seem to pick up on this point in their quest for power.
By the way, I actually "hate" Hillary. She is evil and conniving with a self centered agenda contrary to what this country is about. No contempt, just "hate". Plus she sounds like a complete fool when she screams......And those pulling guard ugly asse legs, damn what was Bill looking at anyway??????????:devil:
Don't forget the horse she rode in on...
I believe an extensive business background and a Governorship hold far more in the way of experience than a greenhorn Sen from nowhere in the business world. Thompson will make his mark at the appropriate time. Traditionally the race doesn't start untill the primaries, but the Dems feel the need to push aside their current duties and begin "bashing" each other AND the Republicans.
The "Clinton Machine" could self destruct if they can't keep the campaign contribution problems swept under the rug. The media "surprisingly" doesn't push this issue. Hmmmm, I wonder why.....
Hillary's "new" Health Plan should open some eyes if viewed for what it is, Socialized Medicine. The ignorant at the bottom of her voting pool will view it as "Manna" from the high towers and think it will actually help them. What it will do is add more tax burder to the working man and more overhead to business pushing more jobs offshore. Hillary nor Obama seem to pick up on this point in their quest for power.
By the way, I actually "hate" Hillary. She is evil and conniving with a self centered agenda contrary to what this country is about. No contempt, just "hate". Plus she sounds like a complete fool when she screams......And those pulling guard ugly asse legs, damn what was Bill looking at anyway??????????:devil:
Just curious if you believe any Republican could win against a Clinton/Clinton ticket?
Just curious if you believe any Republican could win against a Clinton/Clinton ticket?
We can count on Fred is all we can do.
I quite frankly don't believe anyone could beat Bill, and trust me if Hill was to get elected it would be because many in this country are actually voting for Bill not the Mrs.
Despite his faults, he is that charismatic.
And I'm kind of thinking in his mind he knows this and is actually feeling it will be "his" 3rd term. Maybe the Hildabeast's ego will blow and she'll have the "Arkansas Hilbilly Mafia" snuff old Bill for stealing her rightful place in history. Then she'll be caught in scandal and down she'll fall......:devil:
I can dream can't I????? Of course I'm sharing this dream with Obama and Edwards......
Just curious if you believe any Republican could win against a Clinton/Clinton ticket?
Since President Clinton is not eligible to serve as VP, (the first requirement to be eligible to be VP is that the person must be eligible to be President) I'll assume you mean Hillary Clinton and George Clinton. While George might bring her much of the Funketeer vote, I'm not sure they could beat a Fred Thompson/Bootsy Collins campaign.:idea:
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