Saturday, October 11, 2008

NOT PRIME TIME

It seems that part of the community organizing for which Senator Obama has been lauded actually was 'organizing his career' as researcher Andrew Gilbert put it. The Solon from Illinois helped Acorn organize to pressure banks and lending firms to dish out shaky mortgages or get branded 'racist' a charge against which there is virtually no defense. Senator Obama also is the second highest recipient (after Connecticut Democrat Chris Dodd) of 'contributions' from FMAE while receiving vaster sums from the other major banks and investment firms in the nation. What a remarkable convergence of interests: Acorn, Fannie and Freddie, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Lehman Brothers, Google, Inc, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan-Chase, the House Finance Committee: a remarkable assemblage of populists for the man now described openly as a 'change agent.' It’s as if the Senator was the missing link between Bill O’Reilly and David Bowie: 'the horror!'”