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kpete

(71,985 posts)
Fri Jun 15, 2012, 11:31 AM Jun 2012

fascinating tidbit re: Wall St/Clintons/Obama

Geithner once proposed Hillary Rodham Clinton for Treasury secretary

Daley called a few trusted eminences on Wall Street, sounding them out on the personnel switch. Their response was resoundingly positive, both officials said. She had never been a banker, but as a senator from New York, Clinton had cultivated many relationships within the financial sector. Some of them had been longing for the kind of attention they had received from her and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, but rarely got from Obama.


the rest:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/geithner-proposed-hillary-clinton-for-treasury-secretary-white-house-scuttled-idea/2012/06/14/gJQAjhezcV_story.html
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fascinating tidbit re: Wall St/Clintons/Obama (Original Post) kpete Jun 2012 OP
yeah, fascinating. BootinUp Jun 2012 #1
huh? kpete Jun 2012 #2
Geithner recognizes his own kind... Larry Ogg Jun 2012 #3

Larry Ogg

(1,474 posts)
3. Geithner recognizes his own kind...
Fri Jun 15, 2012, 12:27 PM
Jun 2012

That is, he knows who is in the "Big Club", and who is not.

And he would most certainly, never ever recommend someone who was not in the "Big Club", because they might do something that is not in the best interest of the "Big Cub".

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