> During the campaign, Obama was never shy about his promise to undo the
> Bush tax policies. But it was easy to ignore his occasional lapses
> into populist rhetoric and focus on his intense intelligence and Ivy
> League education. Now, in the wake of the crisis, Wall Street’s
> politics are shifting rightward. “All the rich people I know took
> George Bush for granted,” says an analyst at a midtown hedge fund.
> “I’m a Democrat, but I agree with Rush Limbaugh on a lot of this
> stuff,” rails the wife of a former AIG executive.
I guess it took an economic crisis for American political alignments to start making sense.
SA