On the recordJune 17, 2010
When we talk about Wall Street, one of the things that really gets me is, if you look at the numbers and why there wasn't more reform of Wall Street, what we find out is that actually both to the Obama campaign running for President and to our friends across the aisle, the executives on Wall Street, despite what sometimes seems the conventional wisdom, the executives on Wall Street give to the Democrats and to the Obama campaign four to one over Republicans. It's an amazing thing to see. And if you look at that, then you begin to understand a little better why there may be games being played, but there was no real reform of Wall Street that was going on. And that also brings up the issue of British Petroleum. Some might wonder, why in the world would the President of the United States wait all these weeks--week after week after week after week--to even meet with British Petroleum, to even call them down. Well, they've gotten pretty rough on them here lately in talking. But actually, it turns out the more you dig--it's kind of like Wall Street--it turns out British Petroleum was this administration's greatest ally in fighting what was an invented problem: Global warming.
