Obama: ‘I Did Not Run for Office to Be Helping Out a Bunch of Fat Cat Bankers’

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In an interview with 60 Minutes that aired last night, President Obama took a populist tone.

“I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street,” he said.

“The people on Wall Street still don’t get it,” he went on, criticizing bank executives for taking multi-million-dollar bonuses after precipitating the worst recession in decades.

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