We could see the sneers on your face when our keen sense of relevance caused us to stray from the beaten path and wonder after Mark Penn’s conflicting stance on free trade with Colombia. We heard the snickering. But now that Penn has been given his walking papers we are willing to forget the whole thing. Just don’t let it happen again, and we promise we’ll spend more time photoshopping Krugerrands into Marcel Ospel’s hands instead of cocaine bricks into Mark Penn’s.
Clinton Aide Sacked Over Controversy On Colombia [WSJ]
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Comombia? Part of a rebranding strategy?
pretty sure it’s “Colombia,” not Columbia….unless he’s making regular trips up to Morningside Heights
regular trips to Columbia would probably be just as bad in Hill’s book…the school’s probably in cahoots with those damn hedge fund dealers.
Yeah, just because they’re all cuban doesn’t mean they flip bricks.
I guess that rules out one Ivy that EP attended…my money’s on Dartmouth, Princeton or Yale. Is Cornell even an accredited university anymore?
No, the interchanging of a 3rd world country with a 2nd-rate Ivy League institution reflects Rupert Mudoch’s worldview.
I drive a Lmborghini and even I am not laughing at Mark Penn’s greed. I didn’t lie to any blue-collar voters to get it…only some shareholders. And only some of the time. If you’ve ben keeping any tabs at all on election ’08, you would have already known that Hillary’s campaign was nothing more than a sleazy road show of low-minded hypocrisy and lies.
In addition to being booted from the campaign, the Columbian and Cornell governments also subsequently booted Mark from the $30 million or so contract that his firm was smoking the joint at both ends for in the first place.
You all know how I love all-caps IRONY.
Ah well. Guess there’s nothing left for him to do but join the Penn 15 club
@You all know how I love all-caps IRONY.
why should we know you again, random anonymous commenter?
@ab are you joking? columbia is one of the last bastions of communism in america. that place is a den of anti-zionist anti-american trotskyite liberals and terrorists.
oh did i mention anti-white?
anti-white, too.
Why, oh why is there a Hyundai logo on that brick of cocaine??!!
“Mission Accomplished”……..now THAT was IRONY.
@9:58 Columbia anti-zionist? You’re confusing it with Colombia.
@ 9:57
you shouldn’t know me. That’s exactly the point. People who drive yellow Lamborghinis and then take every opportunity mention this sickening fact in posts on dealbreaker.com when they should, in fact, be managing risk at this very moment don’t have time to sign up for an actual account.
only time to post.
also, dealbreaker.com accounts are for analysts and Jamie Dimon’s personal assistant. even ninja mortgage broke=rs from ohio don’t sign up for accounts
-lamborghini guy
@9:58 – for such an anti-Zionist place, there sure seem to be a lot of Jews there.
@9:50 – I bet EP went to Vassar, followed by Harvard Business School.
Can someone put a stop to this? Do we really need a populist at the front of the GOP ticket trying to get his dirty hands in our pockets?
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McCain, in Populist Turn,
Slams Executives’ Pay
Ire for Wall Street
Tied With Empathy
For Homeowners
By LAURA MECKLER
April 7, 2008; Page A4
PHOENIX — The likely Republican presidential nominee displayed a strong populist streak over the housing crisis this weekend, blasting what he called the “outrageous” and “unconscionable” compensation of Bear Stearns and Countrywide executives and their “co-conspirators.”
It is part of Sen. John McCain’s effort to show anger at the people behind the housing crisis and sympathy for those who are facing foreclosure, while remaining skeptical of proposals that would commit the federal government to aggressive action to help them.
Asked about the housing crisis Saturday, the Arizona senator volunteered his disgust with executives who have earned millions at companies at the center of the crisis; he sounded themes heard more often on the Democratic presidential campaign trail.
“And could I add, I think it’s outrageous that someone who is the head of Bear Stearns cashes in millions and millions of dollars in stocks. And I think it’s unconscionable when the guy who apparently is the head of Countrywide and his co-conspirators make huge amounts of money while Americans are facing the threat of losing their own homes,” he told reporters in Prescott, Ariz. “It’s a terrible thing.”
@10:46am, no, that’s the fictitious Muffie.
Comumbia, Columbia, you too, Equity Private? In my fantasies, you could spell.
@diablo – are you Jimmy Cayne or Angelo Mozilo? Because, if you are, you’re going to have a hard time finding any politician willing to say nice things about you.
@9:58, 10:45 you obviously know nothing about Columbia, professors Edward Said, Rashid Kahlidi, Joseph Mossad joing in terrorist activites, leading inflammatory racism on campus, verbally abusing and humiliating Israeli students with the full explicit support of the Columbia administration, or the university’s own president lobbing softball questions to esteemed guest Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
It’s just a little extra funny since ep’s recent evisceration on her own website of the guy who couldn’t spell.
Still love ep though.
@11:03 I went to Columbia. I just look at the world differently than you and your fellow Israel-obsessed brethern.
@11:00 AM
No it’s not about Cayne and the orange man. It’s the principle of the thing. A populist demagogue (sounds redundant) is not how I see the GOP front-runner.
There are lots of more people that made millions in this financial fiasco and there’s nothing wrong with that. Now if he’s accusing Cayne and the orange man of insider trading, then make it clear and demand prosecution. They are innocent until proven guilty, or at least that’s the way it used to be.
I was at that Ahmadinejad speech, the questions asked were anything but softball. You sound like a nutjob.
John McCain “think[s] it’s outrageous that someone who is the head of Bear Stearns cashes in millions and millions of dollars in stocks” even if the stocks were earned years before the subprime crisis? And the person is no longer the “head of Bear Stearns?” And the person has taken hundreds of millions of dollars of loss due to the JP Morgan/Bear Stearns transaction shortly before he sold his stock?
What does McCain propose? That Jimmy Cayne’s remaining personal assets should be forfeited to the government just to appease his poorly-informed sense of justice?
I’m sorry McCain is so sadly ignorant about the Bear Stearns mess, and that rather than do something as simple as listen to last Tuesday’s testimony (if he is adverse to reading the coverage) he has allowed his knee to jerk.
McCain’s populism is the only reason I’m having a hard time making a decision whether to stay with my grand ole party or not vote at all.
As with most (especially recent) elections, it comes down not to who the best candidate is, but which one sucks the least, sigh…
“Populism” is to politics as “Authentic” is to marketing. Look for it to increase over the next couple of presidential cycles.
Commander In Chimp is on TV setting up tax free cocaine imports…
~SEG
Only a tool would drive a Lamborghini. And then to brag about it on a blog?
Mama not hug you enough??
Lamborghini Guy is obviously just trying to compensate for his shortcomings elsewhere. I’ll bet he’s hung like a baby.
Or maybe not drive a Lamborghini and brag about it anyway. Its not like DB is going to send an inspector to his garage.
Only a complete tool talks about what he/she has. Lamborghini guy obviously didn’t grow up with anything and now he thinks he has made it now he’s the definition of nuoveau riche; money and no class as all.
It’s true. I’m absolutely SO nouveau riche, as only a guy in his 20s living this way could be. I certainly rent in New York, and don’t own anything here. That’s seeeeeau nouveau. How did you know?
@ 11:44- you obviously are old. And like Ferraris. That’s your prerogative
@ 12:09 – I run db from my garage.
@ 12:20 – do you work for WaMu?
back to work
@12:42, “back to work”…just keep practicing saying “Can I super size that for you sir?”
@ 12:42 I defy you to not be nouveau riche doing this. That’s sort of what happens when you do a pretty decent job.
Besides who wants to live in Manhattan for more than 6-7 years? Investment banks collapse next door to my workplace, and construction cranes collapse a couple blocks away from my apartment.
Get in, get options, get out, I say
sorry- @ 12:59 I meant. I am @ 12:42. And I find renting to be quite desirable
@11:10 I was at that speech too. The questions were not softball but, as everyone knew would happen, President A. completely declined to answer the questions or engage in anything resembling a dialogue, and instead just went on to push his own platform.
So 11.03 is wrong in the letter of what went on, but certainly right in the spirit of it. Basically, it was a prominent forum for Ahmadinejad to espouse his arguments for extremism and genocide.
@1:09 You may be @12:42 but you are also obviously a retard. Did you lose your job at BSC because of JPM’s cuts to the program that hired the disabled???
Anyone thinking about buying a “Ped Egg”?? I am seriously tempted by some “gentle” callous removal.
@1:22 Seems so long ago, but I believe that in the end the consensus was that the speech was in fact more damaging than helpful to A.
1:26 I would recommend instead going to John Allan’s, where a Brazilian gal will take care of that, all the while holding one of your bare feet within an inch of her boobs, while the other soaks in a tub with warm sudsy water and smooth stones at the bottom.
@ 1:25 I have a theory that every angry poster on db.com is a former bsc employee. You all have plenty of time. You all call names. You all unfailingly invoke the name of bsc as a non-sequitur to whatever you’re responding to.
Now see, @ 1:26- see there’s a guy who’s content with his job
@1:30 A has no concern over his poor reputation in the West. Really there is little he could do to harm it here, as he is generally disliked already. But sending sound bites home of himself speaking at one of the great universities of western society (in Jew York City no less!) is a huge boon to his PR efforts in the middle east.
I hear iranian chicks take it up the butt then do oral on you.
@2:42 I think that’s called a “Hot Carl”.
Iranian chicks definitely do not do that. Only “Persian” chicks.
Hey, @3:58, will you get back to work and stop thinking about some middle eastern girls carpet???