Seems that Obama’s national finance chair, one Penny Pritzker, was half owner of a bank that got shut down for losing $2 billion in assets due to high risk loans. Hmm… And this is one of the people advising Obama on financial affairs in crisis in the financial markets?
An even bigger twist is this nice little tidbit:
One reason Pritzker may have been enamored with Obama was his willingness to press legislation that loosened state regulatory policies for land developers and multi-family property owners.
How delightful is that one? Obama has been going on and on about fixing the markets and hammering McCain for his policies of non-regulation and yet Obama was doing exactly the same thing back home in Illinois. The hypocrisy continues…
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