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By Berlin Wally
Federal Housing Finance Agency’s acting director Edward DeMarco said in a November 10 letter to U.S. lawmakers the salaries and deferred compensation awarded to executives are necessary if the firms are to attract and keep talent required to run operations effectively.
via Regulator defends Fannie, Freddie executive pay | Reuters.
I’m sure President Obama will be condemning this, just as he condemned the “shameful” bonuses on Wall Street. Oops, wait, he’s out of town on business, but I’m sure he’ll get around to it.
Meanwhile, we’ll leave you with Steven Chu explaining how much money you should give a dead cow in order to guarantee future milk delivery, AKA the administration’s “Green Jobs” policy.
By Berlin Wally
Employees of the [MF Global] have given $108,650 to Obama’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee, according to federal records. MF Global’s chairman and chief executive, former New Jersey governor Jon Corzine, has raised at least $500,000 for the campaign and the DNC as a “bundler,” or volunteer fundraiser.
via MF Global ties awkward for Obama campaign – The Washington Post.
Not content with almost bankrupting the state of New Jersey, destroying the portfolios of numerous MF Global clients and getting all 1,066 employees fired, he has now thrown a wrench into the gears of the Obama fundraising machine.
Turns out his only talent is for collateral damage.
By Berlin Wally
An electric car company backed by more than a half-billion dollars in Department of Energy loan guarantees has missed early manufacturing goals and has gradually pushed back plans for U.S. production and the creation of thousands of jobs.
via Fisker, electric carmaker backed by $529 million U.S. loan, balks at Solyndra comparison – The Washington Post.
The administration responds by “easing expectations”. In other words, an elastic waistband approach to contract provisions.
So far the company has delivered a grand total of 40 cars, and those were made in Finland.
By Berlin Wally
In a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll just more than four in 10 (42 percent) Democrats said they were either “extremely” or “very” enthusiastic about the 2012 vote.
via New poll: Democrats losing enthusiasm in presidential campaign – The Washington Post.
Mr. President, we must not allow an enthusiasm gap.
By Berlin Wally
Setting the stage for a long, bruising reelection fight, President Obama returned to this critical battleground state for the second time in as many months on a bus tour that made clear — in pageantry and message — that his campaign is already in full swing.
via Obama bus tour shows campaign in full swing – The Washington Post.
The Big Black Bus & Motorcade Medicine Show is back on the road. Soon to be tying up traffic at a rural hamlet near you.
If you squint and look reeeealy close, it almost seems like he cares about you.
 He sees himself coming and going.
By Berlin Wally
President Obama and his team have decided to turn public anger at Wall Street into a central tenet of their reelection strategy.
The move comes as the Occupy Wall Street protests gain momentum across the country and as polls show deep public distrust of the nation’s major financial institutions.
The movement, which started Sept. 17 with a few dozen demonstrators who tried to pitch tents in front of the New York Stock Exchange, is spreading to other cities across the country.
And it sets up what strategists see as a potent line of attack against Republican front-runner Mitt Romney, a former investment executive whom Obama aides plan to portray as a wealthy Wall Street sympathizer.
Obama plans to turn anti-Wall Street anger on Mitt Romney, Republicans – The Washington Post.
a) Because socialists like to demonize capitalism, and
b) Someone else has already laid the groundwork.
A lot of Republicans don’t see Romney as the best candidate against Obama, but the president and his group evidently do.
By Berlin Wally
“I was going to say, I stand with you. I support you, what you’re down [sic],” said Lewis to the media. He said he wasn’t disappointed he wasn’t able to address the crowd. Several people CBS Atlanta spoke to were upset. Michelle Williams was excited to attend the event and no longer wanted to be associated with the movement, citing how Lewis was treated.
“I am angry because this is not what democracy is all about. This is Marxist more Stalin like [sic]. Your movement, you’re just riff-raff [sic]. You’re an organized mob,” said Williams.
‘Occupy Atlanta’ Mob Refuses to Let Civil Rights Icon Speak at Rally (Video) – HUMAN EVENTS.
The “Civil Rights Icon” is Congressman John Lewis, who evidently showed up to hitch a ride on the latest populist bus, but was not let on.
Our prediction: this particular brand of chuckleheadism will continue until the weather gets cold.
By Berlin Wally
Melissa Harris-Perry, a Tulane professor who also does commentary for MSNBC, declared that a failure to re-elect Obama in 2012 would be proof of the irredeemable racism of even liberal America. “If old-fashioned electoral racism is the absolute unwillingness to vote for a black candidate,” she wrote in The Nation, “then liberal electoral racism is the willingness to abandon a black candidate when he is just as competent as his white predecessors.”
via False racism charges reach ridiculous level – San Antonio Express-News.
OK, assuming he was as competent as his opponent, sure. (What do his predecessors have to do with it?) But she’s looking to use the same white guilt that got him elected in the first place, to get him reelected despite his manifest unsuitability to the job.
By Berlin Wally
Beyond the economy, the wars and the polls, President Obama has a problem: people.
via Obama, the loner president – The Washington Post.
As with all socialists, he sees people not as individuals, but as something that reacts en mass to political and economic stimuli.
Psychologically, this is easy to understand. He was abandoned by his father and all evidence indicates his mother wasn’t really all that interested in him. Not exactly an upbringing that would cultivate an empathetic personality.
He was savvy enough to adopt a persona that would allow him to use his mixed-face, parentless status as an entry into the system via the path of “diversity” and social “justice.” His only real relationships are with a limited group of people who helped him glide through the nooks and crannies of the system.
Give him credit for parlaying his handicaps into the ultimate political success, but don’t for a minute trust him to make a decision that treats you as a real person.
By Berlin Wally
President Obama’s relations with Senate Democratic leaders are deteriorating along with his poll numbers.
With Obama’s approval ratings at record lows and the 2012 electoral map favoring Senate Republicans, the president and Senate Democrats are, in many ways, on divergent paths. Vulnerable Democrats from red states see Obama as impeding their chances of winning reelection, while the president often seems aloof to their concerns.
via Obama administration kept Democratic senators hanging on the phone – TheHill.com.
“Aloof”? Obama? Mr. Empathy? Just because we keep you waiting on the phone while we try to find an aide who knows what the call is about?
Just about every demographic in the country is disillusioned with the President, so why not Democrats in Congress?
Here’s the money quote:
The White House has had to rely on Reid because, unlike former President Clinton, Obama has little appetite for regularly calling Democratic lawmakers.
A mismanaged White House, a chief executive who can’t be bothered with his own party leaders, in fact he seems to see them as unworthy to even talk to: what could possibly be wrong with this picture?
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