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Obama on AIG: Crony Capitalism Pain is Trickling Up

By | 09.17.08 | 11:05 am

Sen. Barack Obama spoke out on the $85 billion the government has agreed to loan to AIG on Wednesday morning, blasting the news in unusually blistering terms as the “final verdict” on a Republican “economic philosophy” that screwed American workers and fostered “crony capitalism”: