i want to get to the polls. chuck todd, chime in on this. a lot of issues pertaining to the banks, executive competition, t.a.r.p., the reform they are trying to get through, is certainly not winning the president s popularity contest with wall street and there are reports that some of the donors may be giving more money to the republicans next time around. so it s not like the president is feeding into wall street s desire to keep them on his team. it s not this is a case where dv individu david brought it up. the president has nuance and in this day and age in the media, sometimes nuance isn t rewarded and nuance is actually penalized. you can t make a comment like that, and at the same time, he is trying to get the financial regulatory the new financial regulatory reform through congress right now, and he doesn t need the banks openly being annen an enemy toward it.
the president s commitment to change the culture on wall street by allowing shareholders more say over executive competition. mika let me tell you what s going on here. what s going on? i ve been hearing from wall street and this has been going on. i ve been hearing from wall street for some time. people who have voted democratic, people who were huge barack obama supporters, they are not going to support him again. they see him as ann enemy of fre enterprise and are actively looking for another vehicle. the dirty little secret of this change campaign, and this hope campaign, is the fact that barack obama got more campaign cash from wall street, from hedge fund guys, from these moneyed interests, than any other candidate in the history of u.s. politics and so, maria are you seeing a connection between the story and that? i ve been asking myself, how
a spokesman says the full extent of the interview shows the president s commitment to change by allowing shareholders more say over executive competition. and i also say, you know, somebody ought to just look at the people receiving these bonuses and giving them. because that s just you know how much do people need? seriously. it seems to me the president has struck the right tone now, after the initial statement. because i think most americans, and i think joe you would even agree with me, most americans don t want the federal government telling companies to say you can give this much of a bonus. if they require these huge corporations to empower shareholders, let the shareholders set the salaries. in other countries, we don t have these disparities. if i m a shareholder of goldman sachs and i think this guy has done a great job and they say let s give him a $2 0