{"id":1619,"date":"2011-03-30T10:16:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T15:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2011-03-30T10:23:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T15:23:12","slug":"tarp-and-obamas-utter-abject-abysmal-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/tarp-and-obamas-utter-abject-abysmal-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank Bailout: Obama&#8217;s Utter, Abject, Abysmal Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"wpgallery\" title=\"NYT: &quot;Where the Bailout Went Wrong,&quot; by Neil Barofsky\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/30\/opinion\/30barofsky.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion\" target=\"_blank\">This<\/a> is one of the most scathing Op-Eds I&#8217;ve ever seen in the NYT.<\/p>\n<p>The bank bailout that Obama voted for as a senator and who was legally mandated to manage for the benefit of the American people as president, was, as the likes of Michael Moore (and yours truly), predicted at the time, an abject failure. It \u00a0helped only bank CEOs while imperiling the economic future of the rest of America.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama should be ashamed of himself.<\/p>\n<p>And he simply should not run in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the most scathing Op-Eds I&#8217;ve ever seen in the NYT. The bank bailout that Obama voted for as a senator and who was legally mandated to manage for the benefit of the American people as president, was, as the likes of Michael Moore (and yours truly), predicted at the time, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,13],"tags":[905,906,904,213,903,907],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perspectives-on-american-gluttony","category-politics","tag-abject","tag-abysmal","tag-failure","tag-jesus-h-obama","tag-president-obama","tag-utter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}