he s at a fund-raiser and it s just #awkward. yeah, that s basically a nutshell of obama s relationship with wall street. try to race money from them one minute, bash them publicly the next. that s the reason he lost the wide middle ground of democrats on wall street. he s never going to get that back. they despise him. it s not going to be a return of the 2008 campaign where he out-raised john mccain on wall street. he s going to have score support, there s hedge funders and private equity guys with obama. they get irritated when he shows up in their apartments, i m going to say one thing publicly, i have to bash you in public but i still want the money. he doesn t necessarily, but his aides do, jim messina, comes to new york, meets with these guys, tells them, we have to talk about this stuff. some of it we believe, he s not saying we re saying stuff we don t believe. people are angry at you for a reason, we re going to talk about that. there are pieces of our platform that would
attributes, characteristics which are much better. that they re democratic, they re transparent, they re accessible to everybody. the current banking system, for instance, is very hard for poor people, often excludes the most marginalized people in our society. that is more equal. a banking system that s fairer, transparent, more accessible. these things are possible if we can imagine a bank that does that through the occupy movement. through the occupy movement is the part of this that is so important. i think. because i think when we think about the occupy movement, it is hard to imagine that there would be people who have expertise and experience, in some cases, deep experience of the financial system and of the high finance, who might want to be part of imagining a new way forward. but in fact, you re working with hedge funders and private equity people and people very deep in the wall street machine. it s probably because zuccotti park is located so near wall street. a lot of
alternative systems that carry attributes, characteristics which are much better. that they re democratic, they re transparent, they re accessible to everybody. the current banking system, for instance, is very hard for poor people, often excludes the most marginalized people in our society. that is more equal. a banking system that s fairer, transparent, more accessible. these things are possible if we can imagine a bank that does that through the occupy movement. through the occupy movement is the part of this that is so important. i think. because i think when we think about the occupy movement, it is hard to imagine that there would be people who have expertise and experience, in some cases, deep experience of the financial system and of the high finance, who might want to be part of imagining a new way forward. but in fact, you re working with hedge funders and private equity people and people very deep in the wall street machine. it s probably because zuccotti park is located
that they re democratic, they re transparent, they re accessible to everybody. the current banking system, for instance, is very hard for poor people, often excludes the most marginalized people in our society. that is more equal. a banking system that s fairer, transparent, more accessible. these things are possible if we can imagine a bank that does that through the occupy movement. through the occupy movement is the part of this that is so important. i think. because i think when we think about the occupy movement, it is hard to imagine that there would be people who have expertise and experience, in some cases, deep experience of the financial system and of the high finance, who might want to be part of imagining a new way forward. but in fact, you re working with hedge funders and private equity people and people very deep in the wall street machine. it s probably because zuccotti park is located so near wall street. a lot of wall street people came through zuccotti park to se
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