[lbo-talk] rage at the top

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 20 10:04:10 PDT 2009


I like this part:


> 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



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