Outrage is mounting on Wall Street as Senator Clinton ratchets up her antibusiness rhetoric in a bid to woo working class voters, whose support could determine whether she is a viable presidential candidate after today's votes.We wonder if Hillary Clinton is using code words like "money-grubbers" to appeal to people who don't like Jews? You'll never hear Hillary Clinton talking about the insatiable greed of overpaid government workers.
Heading into the crucial Indiana and North Carolina primaries, the New York senator is neck and neck with Senator Obama. With 187 Democratic delegates at stake, the opponents are pulling out all the stops.
Yesterday, Mrs. Clinton's normally responsive camp took a full 24 hours to correct widely reported accounts that she had said in a speech during the Indiana Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner: "Why don't we hold these Wall Street money-grubbers responsible for their role in this recession?" In fact, she said: "Wall Street money brokers."
Either way, the sentiment is the same, according to many on Wall Street.
"If America is still the land of milk and honey it's because the fertilizer comes from Wall Street," the chief executive of the research firm Wall Street Strategies, Charles Payne, said. "There is something wrong when it's okay to make $100 million for giving speeches, yet when you help to facilitate the growth of America, which in turn employs millions of people, you can be a villain if you are paid too well."
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Clinton Attacks Wall Street "Why don't we hold these Wall Street money-grubbers responsible for their role in this recession?"
The New York Sun reports: