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banned from Kos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:10 PM Original message |
When did Senator Obama campaign on "prosecuting the bankers"? I don't remember that. |
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SixthSense (251 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
1. it's part of the job description |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:12 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. What specific laws were broken? |
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frazzled (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:16 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Exactly ... unfortunately, most of the shenanigans had been made perfectly legal |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:24 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. YUP ... Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act of 1999 comes to mind. |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:17 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Indeed. People forget that the whole origin of the problem was in deregulation. |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:24 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Exactly. |
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CJCRANE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:26 PM Response to Reply #3 |
15. What about the credit rating agencies |
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banned from Kos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:41 PM Response to Reply #15 |
25. Completely legal until Dodd-Frank. why? |
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CJCRANE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:43 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. There are also concepts like |
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SixthSense (251 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:38 PM Response to Reply #3 |
22. quite a few! |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:42 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. You seem to be misinformed about a few things. |
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SixthSense (251 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 04:09 PM Response to Reply #26 |
34. Perhaps you are misinformed |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 04:27 PM Response to Reply #34 |
39. If you have evidence of illegal things, please feel free to submit it to the NY Attorney General. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
2. Heh.. He specifically ran *against* the private individual mandate.. |
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FarLeftFist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:13 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. I thought he ran against vouchers as McCain was proposing. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:16 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. "I can envision a day when you have to show proof of insurance at the job interview" -H Clinton.. |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:20 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. Hillary supported a mandate. |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:35 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. Obama didn't support the mandate |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:39 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. I must have missed where there were 435 clones of Obama in the House, and 100 in the Senate. |
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Angry Dragon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 08:34 PM Response to Reply #24 |
43. He has a vote---------- the veto |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:50 PM Response to Reply #20 |
29. The post I responded to quotes Hillary. |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:17 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. He didn'treally "run against" them ... if you go back to the DEM debates ... |
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backwoodsbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:35 PM Response to Reply #10 |
19. actually... |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 04:09 PM Response to Reply #19 |
33. That is not "running against" ... |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:13 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Hillary must have convienced him |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:17 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Or maybe he was just lying? |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:17 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Yea, he hates us. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:34 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. You think the mandate is a great thing.. |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:57 PM Response to Reply #17 |
30. Let me get you a fainting couch. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 04:29 PM Response to Reply #30 |
40. There was no problem "dismantling" something far older than the for profit insurance industry.. |
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Autumn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:37 PM Response to Reply #9 |
21. You got it |
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Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
16. What do you think he meant when he coined the phrase |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:34 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Yes, getting elected.. n/t |
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CJCRANE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
23. It doesn't matter whether he did or not |
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SomethingFishy (552 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
28. So we only prosecute criminals when someone promises to |
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banned from Kos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 04:06 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. Straw man - plenty of actual Wall St crimes have been prosecuted |
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SomethingFishy (552 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 04:35 PM Response to Reply #32 |
41. Strawman? Do you even know what that word means? |
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socialismNanarchy (5 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 04:06 PM Response to Original message |
31. He works for the bankers |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
35. he works for the Banksters... we get it |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
36. Isn't Obama pretty much irrelevant now anyway? |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
37. He (and congress) should uphold the laws of the US - and investigate |
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banned from Kos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 08:29 PM Response to Reply #37 |
42. They are! We have had many indictments and almost as many convictions. |
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ieoeja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
38. Bush II ran against fighting terrorism. |
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