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Obama's top donors list
« on: April 20, 2010, 06:12:58 AM »
Goldman Sachs $994,745  ;D

Barack Obama (D)

Top Contributors
This table lists the top donors to this candidate in the 2008 election cycle. The organizations themselves did not donate , rather the money came from the organization's PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. Organization totals include subsidiaries and affiliates.

Because of contribution limits, organizations that bundle together many individual contributions are often among the top donors to presidential candidates. These contributions can come from the organization's members or employees (and their families). The organization may support one candidate, or hedge its bets by supporting multiple candidates. Groups with national networks of donors - like EMILY's List and Club for Growth - make for particularly big bundlers.

University of California  $1,591,395
Goldman Sachs  $994,795
Harvard University  $854,747
Microsoft Corp  $833,617
Google Inc  $803,436
Citigroup Inc  $701,290
JPMorgan Chase & Co  $695,132
Time Warner  $590,084
Sidley Austin LLP  $588,598
Stanford University  $586,557
National Amusements Inc  $551,683
UBS AG  $543,219
Wilmerhale Llp  $542,618
Skadden, Arps et al  $530,839
IBM Corp  $528,822
Columbia University  $528,302
Morgan Stanley  $514,881
General Electric  $499,130
US Government  $494,820
Latham & Watkins  $493,835
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Re: Obama's top donors list
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2010, 06:18:36 AM »
I already posted this, but it bears repeating.  This whole thing is a sham. 

Check out my thread on the lawyer GS picked for their legal defense. 

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Re: Obama's top donors list
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2010, 06:26:44 AM »
JUST RETURNING THE FAVOR:

Dianna Farrell:Obama Administration: Deputy Director, National Economic Council

Former Goldman Sachs Title: Financial Analyst
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Stephen Friedman: Obama Administration: Chairman, President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board

Former Goldman Sachs Title: Board Member (Chairman, 1990-94; Director, 2005-)
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Gary Gensler: Obama Administration: Commissioner, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Former Goldman Sachs Title: Partner and Co-head of Finance
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Robert Hormats: Obama Administration: Undersecretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs, State Department

Former Goldman Sachs Title: Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs Group
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Philip Murphy: Obama Administration: Ambassador to Germany

Former Goldman Sachs Title: Head of Goldman Sachs, Frankfurt
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Mark Patterson: Obama Administration: Chief of Staff to Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geitner

Former Goldman Sachs Title: Lobbyist 2005-2008; Vice President for Government Relations
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John Thain: Obama Administration: Advisor to Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geitner

Former Goldman Sachs Title: President and Chief Operating Officer (1999-2003)

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/25/michael-moore/barack-obama-goldman-sachs-campaign-contributions/

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Re: Obama's top donors list
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2010, 05:23:03 AM »
All the President's Goldman Sachs Men
Townhall.com ^ | April 21, 2010 | Michelle Malkin


Posted on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 8:09:47 AM by Kaslin

While President Obama assails the culture of greed and recklessness practiced by the men of Goldman Sachs, his administration is infested with them. The White House can no more disown Government Sachs than Da Boss-in-chief can disown Chicago politics.

Obama is headed to Wall Street on Thursday to demand "financial regulatory reform" -- just as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed civil suit against Goldman Sachs for mortgage-related fraud. Question the timing? Darn tootin'. There are no coincidences in the perpetually orchestrated Age of O. Everyone from disgraced former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to analysts at the Brookings Institution and Barclays Capital to the GOP leadership and Rush Limbaugh has noted the reeking political opportunism in the air.

As the New York Post reported Tuesday, the Democratic National Committee immediately bought sponsored Internet ads on Google that direct web surfers who type in "Goldman Sachs SEC" to Obama's fundraising site. "It's time to hold the big banks accountable," the money-grubbing DNC message bellows. But just like his crony capitalist predecessor George W. Bush, Obama has relied on Goldman Sachs and Wall Street power brokers to engineer massive government interventions to "rescue" failing businesses with the tax dollars of ordinary Americans.

While irony-challenged Democratic candidates like mob-linked banker Alexi Giannoulias in Illinois (who hopes to fill Obama's old Senate seat) call on Republicans to return their fat-cat Goldman Sachs donations, the Democrats are silent on the $994,795 in Goldman Sachs campaign cash that Obama bagged. The class-warfare Dems are also mum on all the president's Goldman Sachs men sitting in the catbird's seat:

-- Goldman Sachs partner Gary Gensler is Obama's Commodity Futures Trading Commission head. He was confirmed despite heated congressional grilling over his role, as Reuters described it, "as a high-level Treasury official in a 2000 law that exempted the $58 trillion credit default swap market from oversight. The financial instruments have been blamed for amplifying global financial turmoil." Gensler said he was sorry -- hey, it worked for tax cheat Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner -- and was quickly installed to guard the henhouse.

-- Goldman Sachs kept White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on a $3,000 monthly retainer while he worked as Clinton's chief fundraiser, as first reported by Washington Examiner columnist Tim Carney. The financial titans threw in another $50,000 to become the Clinton primary campaign's top funder. Emanuel received nearly $80,000 in cash from Goldman Sachs during his four terms in Congress -- investments that have reaped untold rewards, as Emanuel assumed a leading role championing the trillion-dollar TARP banking bailout law.

-- Former Goldman Sachs lobbyist Mark Patterson serves under Geithner as his top deputy and overseer of TARP bailout -- $10 billion of which went to Goldman Sachs. Left-leaning government watchdog Melanie Sloan of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington responded: "It makes it appear that they are saying one thing and doing another." Paul Blumenthal of the Sunlight Foundation noted that, while at Goldman Sachs, Patterson lobbied against executive pay limits that Obama had crusaded for as senator (before, that is, his administration carved out exemptions for AIG). While Patterson agreed to recuse himself on any Goldman Sachs-related issues or related policy concerns, Blumenthal wrote, it "still creates a serious conflict for Geithner, as Treasury is being partly managed by a former Goldman lobbyist. Geithner is also placed in a tough position considering that his chief of staff is limited in the areas in which he can work (supposedly)."

-- Obama's close hometown crony, campaign finance chief and senior adviser Penny Pritzker was head of Superior Bank of Chicago, a subprime specialist that went bust in 2001, leaving more than 1,400 people stripped of their savings after bank officials falsified profit reports. Pritzker's lawyer at O'Melveny and Myers, Tom Donilon, is now Obama's deputy national security adviser. He earned just shy of $4 million representing her and other high-profile meltdown clients including Goldman Sachs.

-- White House National Economic Council head Larry Summers reaped nearly $2.8 million in speaking fees from many of the major financial institutions and government bailout recipients he now polices, including JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs. A single speech to Goldman Sachs in April 2008 brought in $135,000. Summers has prior experience negotiating government-sponsored bailouts that benefit private concerns. In 1995, he spearheaded a $40 billion Mexican peso bailout that bypassed Congress. Summers personally leaned on the International Monetary Fund to provide nearly $18 billion for the package. Summers' boss, then Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, was former co-chairman of Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs -- the Mexican government's investment banking firm of choice.

Rubin continues to mentor another former employee of his with regular visits and chats -- Treasury Secretary Geithner, who as head of the New York Federal Reserve pushed bailed-out insurance conglomerate AIG to cover up sweetheart deals for investment banks that benefited, you guessed it, Goldman Sachs.

As Obama harangues Wall Street to clean up its house, all the president's Goldman Sachs men have their feet on the coffee table at his.


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Re: Obama's top donors list
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2010, 06:20:23 AM »
he took all their money, now he's screwing them over with this financial regulation bill?

So, we're upset that obama punked goldman sachs?  I'm confused here.

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Re: Obama's top donors list
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2010, 06:28:03 AM »
he took all their money, now he's screwing them over with this financial regulation bill?

So, we're upset that obama punked goldman sachs?  I'm confused here.

Oh please 240 - GMAFB! 

Are you that dumb, naive and ignorant to believe that this whole mess is not orchestrated to sell a crap sandwich to the gullible public?

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Re: Obama's top donors list
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2010, 06:29:26 AM »
this was your opportunity to (instead of insulting me) explain exactly what happened in two or three clear sentences :)

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Re: Obama's top donors list
« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2010, 06:30:21 AM »
this was your opportunity to (instead of insulting me) explain exactly what happened in two or three clear sentences :)

Please, turn off the TV bro, your brain is fried. 

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Re: Obama's top donors list
« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2010, 06:43:19 AM »
so in 3 sentences, what is the scoop? 

Obama got paid by GS, and now it's the revolving door system at work, as has been the case forever?  how does financial reform play into this, how will GS be limited, and why are the repubs voting party line against it?

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Re: Obama's top donors list
« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2010, 06:46:30 AM »
so in 3 sentences, what is the scoop? 

Obama got paid by GS, and now it's the revolving door system at work, as has been the case forever?  how does financial reform play into this, how will GS be limited, and why are the repubs voting party line against it?

Dude - please stop the act.  its wearing thin.