No-Commoner Obama

There was something discordant, even tinny, about Barack Obama's attempt to castigate Wall Street last month. No doubt the president was trying to acknowledge and channel the resentments in his own party — and in the country — when he told CBS's Steve Kroft during a "60 Minutes" interview, "I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat-cat bankers on Wall Street." Yet the rhetorical slap felt a little flat.

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