Why is Barack Obama considered a man of the people?

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when he's taken so much money from Big, Big Business?  

It seems that at least some conservatives, libertarians and a few leftists (such as Counterpunch's Pam Martens) (1, 2) were on the real story with Obama - those of us who noted Geoge Soros' and Warren Buffett's generosity to his Presidential campaign, or that Obama got more money from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae than any other Member of Congress.  Interestingly, executives and employees of Wall Street law firms and lobbyists were Obama's largest donors, among them Jack Abramoff's Greenberg Traurig ($70,000).

When the investment banks and bankers peel off the big bucks to get you into office and keep you there, and send major executives (like Perseus Group's Jim Johnson - Soros owns Perseus Group) to help you run your campaign, it's not because they like your speaking style.  It's because they expect you to share the nation's wealth with THEM somewhere down the line.  

To quote Pam Martens (back in March, 2008):

"We are asked to believe that those white executives at all the biggest Wall Street firms, which rank in the top 20 donors to the Obama presidential campaign, after failing to achieve more than 3.5 per cent black stockbrokers over 30 years, now want a black populist president because they crave a level playing field for the American people.

The number one industry supporting the Obama presidential bid, according to the widely respected, nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, is "lawyers/law firms" (most on Wall Street's payroll), giving a total of $11,246,596.  They say:

"Other leading presidential candidates are taking money from lawyers/law firms/lobbyists, but Senator Obama is the only one rallying with the populist cry that he isn't."

This presents three unique credibility problems for the yes-we-can, little-choo-choo-that-could campaign: (1) these are not just "lawyers/law firms"; the vast majority of these firms are also registered lobbyists at the Federal level; (2) Senator Obama has made it a core tenet of his campaign platform that the way he is gong to bring the country hope and change is not taking money from federal lobbyists; and (3) with the past seven ignoble years of lies and distortions fresh in the minds of voters, building a candidacy based on half-truths is not a sustainable strategy to secure the west wing from the right wing.

Yes, the other leading presidential candidates are taking money from lawyers/law firms/lobbyists, but Senator Obama is the only one rallying with the populist cry that he isn't. That makes it not only a legitimate but a necessary line of inquiry....

...Why do Wall Street and the corporate law firms think they will find a President Obama to be accommodating? As the Black Agenda Report notes, "Evidently, the giant insurance companies, the airlines, oil companies, Wall Street, military contractors and others had closely examined and vetted Barack Obama and found him pleasing."  

Pardon the Joel Chandler Harris analogy, but Barack Obama was Big Business' Briar Patch - they pleaded faintly for the American people not to elect a guy who they found perfectly willing to accept their money in great big lots.  What the Democratic Party accuses John McCain and Joe Lieberman of being, Obama IS.

Sources:
1) http://www.counterpunch.org/martens05052008.html
2) http://carolynbaker.net/site/content/view/360/

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

He was put into power by Wall Street, for Wall Street. His cabinet if packed full of Wall Street executives. That is not by accident.

Here's another good read.....
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/31234647/obamas_big_sellout/print

? · Answer

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Anonymous · Answer

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/31234647/obamas_big_sellout/2
Obama's Big Sellout 
"What's taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in our history. Elected in the midst of a crushing economic crisis brought on by a decade of orgiastic deregulation and unchecked greed, Obama had a clear mandate to rein in Wall Street and remake the entire structure of the American economy. What he did instead was ship even his most marginally progressive campaign advisers off to various bureaucratic Siberias, while packing the key economic positions in his White House with the very people who caused the crisis in the first place."

godsight2 · Answer

Obama is a man of the people because,, he is at least concerned about us. He has ties to Wall Street,just like all of the other Politicians

War Criminal Dick · Answer

He's not.  He's the black George Bush.

Obama is the man of fat cats on Wall Street and people who want to continue the war.

Anonymous · Answer

He is not racist and he is bringing CHANGE and HOPE to Americans.
He also brought our troops home and has slashed government spending like Bush used to do.

Thank goodness for CHANGE!

Bob S · Answer

Can't have a "People's Republic" without a "People's Leader".

Anonymous · Answer

Big government and Big corporate America go hand in hand.

Obama: for special interests by special interests.

DukeofDixie · Answer

Depends on the people you are talking about, it's definitely NOT with Americans, maybe Chinese or some other Communist country*************************************************************************

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