tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19563652.post5846676548438505437..comments2024-03-28T05:37:46.635-05:00Comments on GDAEman: Plan BGDAEmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08348919163462907583noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19563652.post-84098780963588499522009-05-23T16:45:13.284-05:002009-05-23T16:45:13.284-05:00Poet: I suppose desperate people do desperate thi...Poet: I suppose desperate people do desperate things... like Obama turning to Wall Street insiders to run his economic stabilization initiative.<br /><br />I can hear the behind-the-scenes first meeting now:<br /><br />Obama: OK guys. It was you and your friends that got us INto this mess. Now you're gonna have a chance to get us out of it.<br /><br />Summers et. al: "Gulp"GDAEmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08348919163462907583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19563652.post-77805357959691051382009-05-20T02:38:31.307-05:002009-05-20T02:38:31.307-05:00The only problem with the theory is that Obama mig...<I>The only problem with the theory is that Obama might not be given a second chance.</I>Let's hope...hope he doesn't need one. I'm not so sure that your theory works, unless Obama is willing to risk the utter collapse and take the hit...? It sounds even more risky than Wall Street at this juncture.Mark Prime (tpm/Confession Zero)https://www.blogger.com/profile/04683863540465969835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19563652.post-74730356979865816152009-05-19T20:44:25.526-05:002009-05-19T20:44:25.526-05:00One fact that I think deserves more thought, at le...One fact that I think deserves more thought, at least on my part, is that Barack Obama has ties to the University of Chicago, Milton Friedman's academic home for so many years before moving to the Hoover Institution. I wonder if there is an intellectually toxic atmosphere there created by Freidman and his acolytes that has unduly influenced Obama.libhomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537213558568338561noreply@blogger.com