Hartmann: Dirty Little Secret Fed Res, Banks, Bailout, Geithner Useful Idiot, & Prob Obama Inherited

[SLSmith]

Run time: 02:24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WeIAuRtXHY   Posted on YouTube: October 05, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 05, 2009 By DU Member: SLSmith Views on DU: 832

 
October 5, 2009
Thom Hartmann on Paulson, Bernancke, Geithner - TARP federal reserve - etc.

Article I refer to in the video....I keep going back to this timeline...
Bernanke Spoke to Obama Soon After Lehman Failure in September (Bloomberg 12/11/08)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a3VpTE8UD7Ss

[yurbud]

1. K & r

[Enthusiast]

2. Rec. Okay, if this was President Obama's choices

the Democratic Party needs to make the public aware of this even if they have to buy TV adds. It appears to me that the most frequently heard explanation on TV is the "Barney Frank, Freddy Mac, Fanny Mae and minority borrowers caused it." scenario. Why have we allowed this explanation to be peddled around the M$M like it has?

[tomm2thumbs]

3. 'inherited' the problem

I can understand saying we are in a mess and things are bad and the President stepped into a mess, but the word 'inherited' implies it was from out of the blue when this goes with the office of Presidency no matter who takes the job. It would be no different than noting Bush 'inherited' 9/11 because it was already well underway in the planning when he started.

Let's just agree that no one inherits anything when you actively seek a job across several years of campaigning and when both candidates were one of 100 Senators who were active in the government up to the election.

[ProfessorPlum]

4. Then why did Obama come out in favor of the bail-outs

before he was elected, while he was still just the candidate? That doesn't make sense.

[truedelphi]

5. It's a shame to see someone of Hartmann's character come out and be

Nothing but an apologist for the Candidate who took the most money from Wall Street.

Well maybe Thom hasn't learned, but I have - never again do I ignore the list of campaign contributers when I go to vote. If someone has too much money from any industry that is KILLING the American people, i will not vote for them/.

And Thom, BTW Geithner's office is down the hall from Obama's. Obama speaks of him as being his "buddy."