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openleft.com - 3/18/2009
Why Didn't Obama Stop the Checks?
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If Barack Obama is sincere in his stated desire to do everything possible to stop AIG's bonuses, and more generally, stop the abuse of taxpayers by bailed out banks, then I think it's fair to ask why he didn't take action to do just that before these bonuses were paid out? Per the OpenLeft ...
themoderatevoice.com - 3/15/2009
Stop Whining About Bush Failures
— themoderatevoice.com — The time has come for President Barack Obama and his Democratic loyalists to stop whining about inheriting... all the problems the Bush administration dumped on us. They knew that from the get-go and most intelligent Americans accept it as fact. So, ... (more) Stop Whining About Bush Failures

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David Sirota: Lying Or Incompetent - Either Way, Geithner Needs to Be Fired
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... * Agruably even worse is the fact that Obama himself knew about the bonuses before the checks were cut, and did absolutely nothing to stop those checks from being cut - but that's fodder for another post altogether. ...

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