Obama Seeks To Win Back Wall Street Donations For 2012

New York Times:

WASHINGTON -- A few weeks before announcing his re-election campaign, President Obama convened two dozen Wall Street executives, many of them longtime donors, in the White House's Blue Room.

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Comments

[leonel]

09:34 PM on 06/21/2011

No Republican can flash a smile like this. That is why Obama will be very difficult to beat. If you want some background detail, get a book or CD version of "The Levity Effect--Why It Pays to Lighten Up."

Individuals fall all along the spectrum of enjoying humor and now it is becoming a subject of concern to employers and there is training about how useful it is for productivity.

The current state of awareness can be said to just seeing it as a natural aspect of personality. In other words, some of us like to be joking all the time and some are usually too serious about everything. As counselors and psychologists study the subject, they are learning that companies can benefit from training for managers so they understand the benefits of levity.

Eventually it will get into politics. Right now conservatives and progressives are also just acting naturally about being of good humor or being critical and pessimistic, without reflecting on its indirect effects.

Successful presidents like Reagan and Clinton had reputations of being humorous. Going back in time it seems that they used to be less light-hearted. Proactive levity seems to be in the future.

Republican candidates seem to be on the pessimistic side. Seems to go with their outlook on the future. Pawlenty scoffed at being entertaining as not in his interest.

There is a book that encourages them to be that way: "We are Doomed--Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism." Derbyshire, 2009.

[Bankerrkt]

01:10 PM on 06/28/2011

Oh yeah, I thought it was hysterical when Obama figured out there were no shovel ready jobs after we spent billions. Then when we were told that unemployment would be at 9% for the foreseeable future, I just cracked up. Finally when we were told that Obama's misery index was the highest in 38 years, I thought I was going to bust a gut. This guy is too funny.

[exmate]

09:22 AM on 06/16/2011

Even former populist Dick Gephardt is now an active consultant with Goldman-Sachs.

[Paul Sta]

08:53 AM on 06/16/2011

Obama needs the support ie financial contributions, of big banks and Wall Street, so he can continue to pummel the voters with the propaganda that he actually works for Main Street. The ultimate hypocrisy,and a sad statement of the current education level of the average voter, who will fall for more worthless spin and rhetoric. The best Govt WS can buy.

[Justice1]

08:28 AM on 06/15/2011

more proof the stimulus was directed at padding friends pockets...

[exmate]

07:29 AM on 06/14/2011

The entitlement for Wall Street which has obscene amounts of money to use some of that money to bribe government officials to allow them to accumulate even greater amounts of money is going to destroy the American middle class.

[Peanut Santiago]

04:03 AM on 06/14/2011

"Obama Seeks To Win Back Wall Street Donations For 2012".....quote

Does anybody still have any questions why Wall Street Wizards (and banksters) have not been prosecuted?

[Justice1]

08:29 AM on 06/15/2011

well partner...seems that they are in on the family plan of this admin

[lvdragonlady]

12:50 AM on 06/14/2011

It is disgusting that Americans ALLOW the CORPORATIONS to BUY elections and in the same breathe whining about socialism.

[bealebkk]

10:32 PM on 06/13/2011

he owes his soul to the Goldman store

[xilduq]

08:41 PM on 06/13/2011

i'm guessing i'm not the only non-wall-streeter who won't be contributing to his campaign this go round so wall street will be even more important than it was the first time

[Blu Steel]

07:51 PM on 06/13/2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XySGw-g2tyk&feature=player_embeddedThis Flag Day, Tuesday June 14th, we will launch a non-violent social movement with this list of demands:
* End the campaign finance and lobbying racket
*Break up the Fed & Too Big to Fail banks
* Enforce RICO laws against organized criminal class
* Order Ben Bernanke to step down

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/anonymous-bernanke-is-next-june-14-2011-6#ixzz1PCezyhnG

[xilduq]

08:42 PM on 06/13/2011

or go straight to the source: http://ampedstatus.org

[InYourWorld]

06:14 PM on 06/13/2011

He had better consult with his Goldman Sachs handlers.......

[hobo62]

05:59 PM on 06/13/2011

There goes main street. Oh wait, main street has been gone for almost four years now. It's no street now, just a dirt road full of ruts and dust. And Wall Street has become easy street.

[jamesd856]

04:53 PM on 06/13/2011

This guy is just another politician, no savior here. He will sell his soul for a vote.

[texano0038]

05:05 PM on 06/13/2011

Let me call Homer Simpson : D'OH

[GoldsteinD]

04:49 PM on 06/13/2011

not until you take back control of the economy (supply of money) from the bankers, will the politicians be responsive to those who elected them

[marmalade]

04:45 PM on 06/13/2011

As the saying goes, my party left me, I didn't leave the party. I do now. Besides being a political coward and a Republican Democrat, he is an ineffectual leader.
Where are the jobs!!!! A jobs bill and stimulus bill should have been in every President's speech from day one; instead, we get his acceptance of the conservative narrative that continues to dominate the Beltway.
I just wish he had a challenger for the primaries.

[osofar]

07:55 PM on 06/13/2011

My feeling as well.