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Jim Cramer: "A "LIBERAL", Unloads On Zer0

Mike

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Obama is Dancing, But Who Calls the Tune?
The New Media Journal ^ | mar 12, 2009 | Paul R. Hollrah


Jim Cramer, the liberal host of CNBC’s Mad Money TV series, has apparently “stepped in it” with some of his liberal friends. After being taken to task by New York Times columnist Frank Rich, liberal humorist Jon Stewart, and others, he wrote, “President Obama's team, unlike Bush's team, demonstrates a thinness of skin that shocks me. When I somewhat obviously and empirically judged that the populist Obama administration is exacerbating the (financial) crisis with its budget and policies, as evidenced by the incredible decline in the averages since his inauguration, I was met immediately with condescension and ridicule rather than constructive debate or even just benign dismissal.

“I said to myself, ‘What the heck? Are they really that blind to the Great Wealth Destruction they are causing with their decisions to demonize the bankers, raise taxes for the wealthy, advocate draconian cap-and-trade policies and upend the health care system? Do they really believe that only the rich own stocks? What do they think we have our retirement accounts in, CDs? Where did they think that the money saved for college went, our mattresses? Do they think the great middle class banks at the First National Bank of Sealy and only the wealthiest traffic in the Standard & Poor's 500?’ "

In referring to Obama’s budget and policies as the “Great Wealth Destruction,” Cramer had the temerity to speak truth to power. But truth is not what Obama and congressional Democrats are looking for. What they want is a frightened citizenry... a citizenry so frightened and traumatized that they will give Democrats carte blanche to impose the socialist paradise they have longed for since the days of FDR, and before.


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