{"id":197068,"date":"2008-03-04T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/04\/with-friends-like-these\/"},"modified":"2008-03-04T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T22:54:00","slug":"with-friends-like-these","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/04\/with-friends-like-these\/","title":{"rendered":"With Friends Like These&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Specifically Penny Pritzker, Obama&#8217;s national campaign finance chair.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that she was chairman of the board, and from all accounts an engaged and active one at that, of the, &#8220;borderline shady and failed Superior Bank&#8221;, which collapsed in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that these guys were the folks who created the so-called innovations that have led in large degree to the subprime mess, and it led to their downfall in the middle of the most bullish housing market in history.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consortiumnews.com\/2008\/022708a.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bfeldman68.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/obama-campaigns-pritzkersuperior-bank-s.html\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/bfeldman68.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/revisiting-in-these-times-breaking-bank.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If there is one lesson to be had from the Bush administration, it is look at who the candidate keeps around him.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with Earl Ofari Hutchinson&#8217;s assessment, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/earl-ofari-hutchinson\/if-obamas-for-real-on-th_b_89159.html\">If Obama&#8217;s for real on the sub-prime crisis, he&#8217;ll dump his campaign finance chair<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specifically Penny Pritzker, Obama&#8217;s national campaign finance chair. It turns out that she was chairman of the board, and from all accounts an engaged and active one at that, of the, &#8220;borderline shady and failed Superior Bank&#8221;, which collapsed in 2002. It appears that these guys were the folks who created the so-called innovations 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":[1261,970,1004,977,1088],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bubble","category-corruption","category-finance","category-presidential-campaign","category-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197068"}],"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=197068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}