{"id":190390,"date":"2009-12-03T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/03\/matt-taibbi-on-obama\/"},"modified":"2009-12-03T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T02:43:00","slug":"matt-taibbi-on-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/12\/03\/matt-taibbi-on-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Taibbi on Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; width: 330px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><object width=\"320\" height=\"265\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/G4it-Fs8RLw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/G4it-Fs8RLw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"320\" height=\"265\"><\/embed><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/G4it-Fs8RLw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/G4it-Fs8RLw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/G4it-Fs8RLw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/G4it-Fs8RLw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/G4it-Fs8RLw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/G4it-Fs8RLw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/G4it-Fs8RLw&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/a><\/object><\/div>\n<p>He essentially says that it&#8217;s Robert Rubin&#8217;s friends and disciples who are running the White House bailout effort, largely for the benefit of \u2026\u2026wait for it\u2026\u2026wait for it\u2026\u2026wait for it\u2026\u2026wait for it\u2026\u2026 <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;\">Robert Rubin&#8217;s friends and disciples<\/span>!<\/p>\n<p>He connects the dots and concludes, accurately IMNSHO, that the goal of the Obama and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> is to implement a &#8220;permanent bailout mechanism&#8221; for the biggest 20 or so financial institutions in the United States, which will mean that they will have more access to cheaper capital than any competitors, which will allow them to accumulate more money and power, allowing to exert further influence over government\u2026\u2026Rinse\u2026\u2026Lather\u2026\u2026Repeat.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/article\/matt-taibbi-exposes-obamas-wall-streets-inner-circle-pays-particular-homage-robert-rubin\">zero hedge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He essentially says that it&#8217;s Robert Rubin&#8217;s friends and disciples who are running the White House bailout effort, largely for the benefit of \u2026\u2026wait for it\u2026\u2026wait for it\u2026\u2026wait for it\u2026\u2026wait for it\u2026\u2026 Robert Rubin&#8217;s friends and disciples! He connects the dots and concludes, accurately IMNSHO, that the goal of the Obama and His Evil Minions\u2122 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,970,969,1004],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-corruption","category-evil","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190390"}],"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=190390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}