Barack Obama
April 2, 2010
White House
In his talk to the
avaricious, self-righteous, and criminal heads of the 13 largest banks in the United States, those who are chiefly responsible for our financial crisis.
I will never understand why he gave up the chance to reform our financial system and give us a path to growth when
perhaps one of the greatest orators of our time had the opportunity in hand to do so. People tell me it is because those
bankers had become one of the largest donors to his election, and because he hired the democrats from the Clinton
administration who had helped change the laws to make the excesses of 2000-2008 possible.
But this guy had a real chance to reverse decades of wrong directions, to make real history. He gave it up for that?
A thought comes to me -
If he's got their backs, and we've got his back, whose got our backs?