{"id":184482,"date":"2012-04-16T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T01:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/04\/16\/stating-the-obvious-6\/"},"modified":"2012-04-16T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T01:34:00","slug":"stating-the-obvious-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/04\/16\/stating-the-obvious-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Stating the Obvious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eliot Spitzer notes that Barack Obama was on Wall Street&#8217;s side from Day One:<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"284\" width=\"500\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Kp7rnWqS258?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Kp7rnWqS258?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>That being said, I think that Spitzer is wrong on the finer points here.  He thinks that the tepid (largely phony) moves toward regulation have turned Wall Street against Obama, not his occasional speeches about &#8220;fat cat bankers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think that it is these words.  These are <b>very<\/b> rich men, who spend their lives surrounded by toadies and sycophants who validate their self worth, because of they have a <b>pathetic<\/b> need for affirmation.<\/p>\n<p>People simply don&#8217;t tell them that they <b>might<\/b> not be the most valuable people in the world in <b>their<\/b> world, so when Obama offers the most tepid of critiques, while doing their bidding, they freak out.<\/p>\n<p>I just wonder how small these guy&#8217;s penises are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eliot Spitzer notes that Barack Obama was on Wall Street&#8217;s side from Day One: That being said, I think that Spitzer is wrong on the finer points here. He thinks that the tepid (largely phony) moves toward regulation have turned Wall Street against Obama, not his occasional speeches about &#8220;fat cat bankers.&#8221; I think that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1004,978,985,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-finance","category-politics","category-regulation","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}