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WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Obama Should Return Wall Street Contributions: President Obama took his cas?

By Glenn Reynolds

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Obama Should Return Wall Street Contributions:

President Obama took his case for vastly increasing federal power over financial institutions to Wall Street yesterday, but he forgot something while packing for the trip. He should have taken with him all those bags of dirty money he received on the campaign trail in 2008 from Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms whose greedy ways he claims led the nation’s economy into the Great Recession. Since Obama received nearly a million dollars in contributions from Goldman Sachs executives in 2007 and 2008, maybe all those bags of filthy Wall Street lucre wouldn’t fit on Air Force One. More likely, the dirty money stayed in the White House because Obama and his fellow Democrats want to keep having it both ways on Wall Street.

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Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 23, 2010 (boomark / email).