Charlie Gasparino reports that "sources close to Obama people" are saying the following is the short list of names for Treasury Secretary under an Obama prez:
1. Larry Summers
2. Tim Geithner
3. Paul Volcker
4. Bob Rubin
CG stressed that the situation is fluid. Since we're throwing lists out there, here's ours, which also comes from sources close-ish to Obama:
1. Jimmy Cayne
2. Bob's Big Boy
3. Charlie Gasparino
4. Bob Barker
5. The Philly Phanatic (just for a year though. This posish will rotate according to whoever wins the World series every year).
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:33PM
What CG did not stress was that Obama hadn't actually been elected yet.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:33PM
jesus fuckin' christ, CG. enough with the "situation is fluid" bullshit.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:33PM
Too much name-dropping, didn't read.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:33PM
I'd be shocked if Gasbag had any sort of "scoop" on this. I'm closer to the Obama people than he is.
Posted by HighYield , Nov 03, 2008 3:33PM
Uh oh... Dylan and Charlie are getting a bit testy right here...
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:34PM
Situation is about as fluid as Gasbag's lunchtime martinis
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:35PM
WHAT? election? what election? god damnit I wish someone had mentioned something at least on the cable news channels.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:35PM
What has he got?
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:36PM
I would be more interested in hearing who GC thinks Bush will pardon.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:36PM
KO(DR) vs BUD (CG): who wins?
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:38PM
Will Obama pardon Tony Rezko?
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:38PM
He also scooped that the BOFA/mer merger is in trouble. It was on the Biz page of the Post, im sure he didnt see it though
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:39PM
hahaah! so much for change Obie with that list...
two former SecTreas on the list...
If this is true its pathetic.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:40PM
Five large that if Gaspo's bladder exploded on live televison and he died not a single news channel would cover it. Not even FOX
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:40PM
I'm pretty sure there is a fifth candidate, a pioneer who has can provide leadership in a time of need. A man whose intelligence and hard work has uncovered greed in corporate America for the benefit of the masses. A man who connects with the people through both modern media and charisma. A different kind of asset manager, an investor whose actions make this a better country.
- Fake Tim Sykes
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:40PM
I'm pretty sure there is a fifth candidate, a pioneer who can provide leadership in a time of need. A man whose intelligence and hard work has uncovered greed in corporate America for the benefit of the masses. A man who connects with the people through both modern media and charisma. A different kind of asset manager, an investor whose actions make this a better country.
- Fake Tim Sykes
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:41PM
"I better not get scooped on this, you are going to have a SERIOUS credibility problem! you better call me back now, right now, now now..."
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:41PM
Maybe old "shoot in the arm" Gasbag is vying for a play at Press Secretary.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:41PM
@15/16 Umm no.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:42PM
The only scoop CG ever had was when Willumstad gave him the courtesy of a reach-around and cupped his balls while letting him leak internal and non public information.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:42PM
I'm writing in Bloomberg for pres anyway-thats how much i could give a fuck about who is going to be ruining the fiefdom it took me 20 years to build, for the next four years
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:42PM
@13, I agree. If Obama is elected his cabinet should be entirely comprised of people with no experience in the area of their responsibility.
Fucking Retard
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:42PM
Does CG really have "sources close to Obama people"?
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:43PM
Al Sharpton would be an awesome Press Secretary
Posted by diablo , Nov 03, 2008 3:43PM
I'm not sure there's anybody close to Obama who would talk to wingnut Charlie. He's making it up.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:44PM
Kwame Kilpatrick at Justice
Posted by merkin capital partners , Nov 03, 2008 3:47PM
my only advice: take the convertible.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:47PM
@14 i'd lever up 50:1 to take that bet against you. i took risk modeling from "Gary Gorton, a 57-year-old finance professor and jazz buff, [who] is emerging as an unlikely central figure in the near-collapse of American International Group Inc."
i get your point, though. sometimes the shit he talks about that passes for journalism is unbearable.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:49PM
Jimmy Cayne for Treasury Secretary!
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:51PM
Jimmy Cayne for FDA chief
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:52PM
Jimmy Cayne for head of DEA
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:53PM
Too off-base, didn't read.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:55PM
remember: Obama's half-white, so he's got the, um, "ambition genes"
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:55PM
@32-good one. take the rest of the day off
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:58PM
Gas Bag is looking particularly fugly today and is shooting looks at Ratigan.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 3:59PM
Stugots on this Charles, you don't know shit. Lost yer last shred of credibility last week when you ragged Ratigan.
Posted by Joseph di Jersey City , Nov 03, 2008 4:01PM
Please let it be Summers. With him and Biden kicking around you know there's going to be some amusing things said.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:03PM
The Philly Phanatic is how chicks in Philly look!
Bitches got kankles there!
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:05PM
It will be Warren Buffer shit heads!
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:07PM
@* He got Herpes
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:08PM
@8 He got Herpes
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:17PM
Irrelevant. We're all screwed irregardless of who's at Treasury.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:18PM
Just a shout out and "thanks" to you neo-cons and Repubs who have fucked things up beyond all recognition and GAVE this election to us Dems!!
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:18PM
Please. The Phanatic is the best mascot ever. In winning or losing seasons. No replacement necessary. Because, isn't goofy media-worthy behaviour what a Treasury Secretary is for?
Posted by AJ , Nov 03, 2008 4:20PM
Isn't Volcker about 90?
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:21PM
the san diego chicken was the originator of "hookers and blow"
fo real. i know him.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:22PM
TGFD said last Thursday, mid-afternoon that the tide had just turned against obama and that he's going to lose.
This is still the case. The 8% undecided vote is still moving to McCain at an increasing rate.
The election is all about obama: Do we want him or not? The 'not' votes are going to carry the day.
The correct selection from Bess' Treasury Sec'y list is 'None of the above."
The Guy from Delaware
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:22PM
On CG, he's just a fuckin' TV journo who overestimates his own importance in the grand scheme of things and his ability to "move markets". All this attention and hate spewed towards him seems juvenile and pointless.
-Not NS
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:24PM
tgfd, how do you find time to fluff 72 year old cock with all the time you spend on this site.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:27PM
"I hav- I have many things. I have many things in my arsenal. But what I GOT is not what I have. I dont HAaAVE what I got... i dont haave what I got. I dont hAAve what I got."
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:29PM
@50 = obama
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:31PM
@50- dumbass. that's charlie re: the other day.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:35PM
THIS IS A JOB FOR MAYO
Posted by Anal_yst , Nov 03, 2008 4:37PM
Interesting to see the # of closet-racists (or quasi-racists, if such a thing exists) that said yea for Obama in the polls but don't end up pushing the button when it matters, that could be the biggest x-factor in this election at this point
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:39PM
@54 data? link?
or, is this from your fluid sources?
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:39PM
43 Lets not forget that congrats are also in order for whoever decided that Sara Snowpants, in all her empty headed glory, should be on the ticket. Frankly, without her McCain would have had a chance. Her arrival however resulted in him looking like a totally cooky cranky old man.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:41PM
@55...it's called the "Bradley effect"
People will lie to pollsters but not in the booth.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:43PM
54 I've also heard it said that there are a lot of R's that are basically disgusted with their party's veering away from small government / pro economy principals and veering towards the goofy values orientation of Sara Palin and in the privacy of the voting booth will be happy to pull the D lever in order to facilitate a cleansing.
Posted by Lowly Assistant , Nov 03, 2008 4:44PM
Cowbell Man for sure!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/199/473059097_955519e5bc.jpg
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:44PM
@51, close.
@52, incorrect.
Its an excerpt from a Rev. Jesse Jackson speech given at a Rainbow Coalition fundraiser.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:46PM
@57, 54 yes, i'm familiar with this "bradley effect"
what i am not familiar with is if there's any shred of evidence this is actually happening?
seems more like a karl rove last-minute tactic to confuse the masses.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:47PM
60 Thanks. I would have sworn it was from GWB's last state of the union address.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:47PM
#57, very true. Could be worth 5 points in polls for McCain. Tomorrow could be close.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:47PM
@58...no cleansing...Palin will run in 2012...or perhaps for AK senator as soon as she can...
Anyone wonder if McCain would've fared much better had he picked Romney given the primacy of the economical issues?
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:49PM
@61...the evidence only comes after the election...hence what the Bradley effect means...so you obviously are not aware of how it works or worked with Tom Bradley.
"Now i'm sittin' on top of the world..."
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:50PM
Anal_yst@#54...
I believe that most polls are faulty and overweighted in democrat sampling. The major media is in the tank for obama too. The huge undecided voter group will determine the outcome.
White racism? So what? How come whites from western European backgrounds appear to be the only group not voting along racial lines? Everybady else does it, but only the guilt-ridden WASP sissies who vote for obama because he's black are the real f'n assholes.
The Guy from Delaware
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:55PM
@65 hey, asshole
i figured since people were coming on here saying it was happening maybe they had some data or links from the early voting results.
cool, now go fuck yourself
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:55PM
bradley effect is the new decoupling.
this fucker is over.
btw, back in nyc for a week, hanging out, stealing your clients, the usual.
convinced you all had lost your edge, then i saw like a 60 yr old dude beating the piss out of an obese guy in a batman mask on second ave. it was noon.
way to go. see you at the obama rally.
-retail
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 4:57PM
@67...fuck you very much.
You actually believe people who comment on here? Then you really are dumber than dog shit pal.
Posted by left_coast , Nov 03, 2008 5:05PM
Rove is executing his plan.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 5:06PM
Thats it, can we finally get TGFD off this site so he can get back to copulating with his cousin or whatever else they do in the cave he lives
Posted by Suits , Nov 03, 2008 5:06PM
I hope TGFD is better at picking stocks than he is at picking election winners. Long OB350EV calls.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 5:07PM
@#68...
"this fucker is over."
Go to obama's rally if you want, but your boy is going to lose. Too many unanswered questions about him. Too thin a resume. Too little experience. Too many questionable associations. Too much unease in 8% of voters at this late date. Too much resistence to obama's "fundamental change to the US of A" mantra.
The Guy from Delaware
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 5:10PM
@73 too much seclusion from society in delaware
it's over. we can discuss further on wednesday.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 5:13PM
64 The knives are out for Palin. You can see already that she'll be blamed for the defeat. Maybe Alaska Senator (they're dim up there), but no way she goes further. The rest of the field (Jindal for starters) will make chopped moose out of her. There is just not enough that's special about her.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 5:14PM
@#74...
We'll see, but as you say, "we can discuss further on wednesday." Good idea.
The Guy from Delaware
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 5:15PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maVyHXxr0bg
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 5:24PM
Too much politics, didn't read.
Back to Yahoo! then...
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 5:35PM
Paulson is the guy in the Philly Phanatic costume....he does his best thinking in there!!
Posted by diablo , Nov 03, 2008 5:49PM
@54 Anal
Racists will not vote for Obama, and will not even tell a pollster that they would vote for him when they are certain they will not. They are more likely to tell you they are undecided rather than tell you they would vote for Obama.
And by the way, there's no such thing as a quasi-racist.
Posted by cy , Nov 03, 2008 6:04PM
Regardless of who wins the election, I heard that dude pushing sandisk on WSW is a shoo-in for treasury secretary.
Ralph Cioffi for Fed Chairman!
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 6:10PM
@73
Just crushed a ladybug with a yellow legal pad. Its squashed remains made me think of McCain's electoral college count tomorrow. Who gives a shit about the popular vote.
Posted by chernevik , Nov 03, 2008 6:12PM
3. Paul Volcker -- No. Won't agree to the spending that Obama and the Dems will need/want; credible and independent enough to hurt Obama by resigning. Also, too old.
4. Bob Rubin -- No. Way too close to the Clintons, conflicted/compromised by Citibank involvement.
Those two names have only surface plausibility. The Obama campaign is trying to reassure Wall Street voters they'll be responsible. Maybe they've got a touch of nerves?
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 6:16PM
Paul Volker! Is that the guy who raised interests rates to like 25% in 1980 so he could kill the us economy in the name of inflation?
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 6:26PM
Larry Summers! This guy couldn't stand up to the Womyn's Studies Dept at Harvard. He's going to have a hard time withstanding pressure for social engineering programs pushed by the loony left.
I'm in rare agreement with TGFD. I think McCain pulls it off.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 6:34PM
What about .....
BARRY RITHOLTZ
he's a genius.... just ask him
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 7:37PM
@22
Michael "Your Doin' a Heckuva Job Brownie" Brown was qualified?
Donald "We'll Be Greeted as Victors" Rumsfeld was qualified?
Hank "Screw Lehman, What's the Worst That Could Happen" Paulson is qualified?
Paul "New American Century" Wolfowitz was qualified?
Harriet "In Dallas, I'm Somebody" Miers was qualified?
Seriously...
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 8:36PM
We need some anglo representation on that list!!!
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 11:01PM
Al Hunt, the political host from Bloomberg TV, was talking about this exact group of four candidates for Treasury Secretary as his "short list" on a panel he that he participated in last week with Roubini and Arthur Levitt. Wonder if both Hunt and Gasparino have the same source, or is Gasparino getting his scoop from a rival TV station?
Incidentally, sonuded like Hunt thought Geithner was the likely pick. "Very smart", 47 years old, and a relatively fresh face.
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 11:01PM
too little OBAMA! didn't read. :-/
Posted by NotNasser , Nov 03, 2008 11:02PM
#39
Warren Buffer???
the Sage of Bayer?
Posted by guest , Nov 03, 2008 11:05PM
McCain Palin Packin 2008
VOTE B1TCHES!
Tanned Banker
Posted by guest , Nov 04, 2008 12:42AM
Volker?! Did he skip history class?
Posted by AnsleyH , May 04, 2009 6:24AM
President Obama already built his cabinet members who will help him make a comprehensive plan on how to save our ailing economy. All of us are very eager to see the “change” that he is talking about during the election campaigns. Hopefully, by this year, we can say that we are fully recovered from recession. Anyway, last April 22nd, we’ve celebrated the Administrative Assistant Day. Administrative Assistant is also known as Admin Day or Administrative Professionals Day 2009. If the terminology is confusing, you aren't alone. This is basically a whole bunch of ways to label the same thing – Secretary Day. Secretary is a non-PC word now considered off limits. Whatever the cabal of quacks that determine what is PC and what isn't call it, it's a day to reward those that serve in support roles, and gifts are always good, though more money in the form of a raise would be better. For additional information regarding the Administrative Assistant Day, you can visit,
http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/04/22/administrative-assistant-day/