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).
What CG did not stress was that Obama hadn’t actually been elected yet.
jesus fuckin’ christ, CG. enough with the “situation is fluid” bullshit.
Too much name-dropping, didn’t read.
Uh oh… Dylan and Charlie are getting a bit testy right here…
Situation is about as fluid as Gasbag’s lunchtime martinis
WHAT? election? what election? god damnit I wish someone had mentioned something at least on the cable news channels.
What has he got?
I would be more interested in hearing who GC thinks Bush will pardon.
KO(DR) vs BUD (CG): who wins?
Will Obama pardon Tony Rezko?
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
hahaah! so much for change Obie with that list…
two former SecTreas on the list…
If this is true its pathetic.
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
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
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
“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…”
Maybe old “shoot in the arm” Gasbag is vying for a play at Press Secretary.
@15/16 Umm no.
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.
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
@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
Does CG really have “sources close to Obama people”?
Al Sharpton would be an awesome Press Secretary
I’m not sure there’s anybody close to Obama who would talk to wingnut Charlie. He’s making it up.
Kwame Kilpatrick at Justice
my only advice: take the convertible.
@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.
Jimmy Cayne for Treasury Secretary!
Jimmy Cayne for FDA chief
Jimmy Cayne for head of DEA
Too off-base, didn’t read.
remember: Obama’s half-white, so he’s got the, um, “ambition genes”
@32-good one. take the rest of the day off
Gas Bag is looking particularly fugly today and is shooting looks at Ratigan.
Stugots on this Charles, you don’t know shit. Lost yer last shred of credibility last week when you ragged Ratigan.
Please let it be Summers. With him and Biden kicking around you know there’s going to be some amusing things said.
The Philly Phanatic is how chicks in Philly look!
Bitches got kankles there!
It will be Warren Buffer shit heads!
@* He got Herpes
@8 He got Herpes
Irrelevant. We’re all screwed irregardless of who’s at Treasury.
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!!
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?
Isn’t Volcker about 90?
the san diego chicken was the originator of “hookers and blow”
fo real. i know him.
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
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
tgfd, how do you find time to fluff 72 year old cock with all the time you spend on this site.
“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.”
@50 = obama
@50- dumbass. that’s charlie re: the other day.
THIS IS A JOB FOR MAYO
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
@54 data? link?
or, is this from your fluid sources?
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.
@55…it’s called the “Bradley effect”
People will lie to pollsters but not in the booth.
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.
Cowbell Man for sure!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/199/473059097_955519e5bc.jpg
@51, close.
@52, incorrect.
Its an excerpt from a Rev. Jesse Jackson speech given at a Rainbow Coalition fundraiser.
@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.
60 Thanks. I would have sworn it was from GWB’s last state of the union address.
#57, very true. Could be worth 5 points in polls for McCain. Tomorrow could be close.
@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?
@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…”
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
@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
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
@67…fuck you very much.
You actually believe people who comment on here? Then you really are dumber than dog shit pal.
Rove is executing his plan.
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
I hope TGFD is better at picking stocks than he is at picking election winners. Long OB350EV calls.
@#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
@73 too much seclusion from society in delaware
it’s over. we can discuss further on wednesday.
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.
@#74…
We’ll see, but as you say, “we can discuss further on wednesday.” Good idea.
The Guy from Delaware
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maVyHXxr0bg
Too much politics, didn’t read.
Back to Yahoo! then…
Paulson is the guy in the Philly Phanatic costume….he does his best thinking in there!!
@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.
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!
@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.
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?
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?
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.
What about …..
BARRY RITHOLTZ
he’s a genius…. just ask him
@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…
We need some anglo representation on that list!!!
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.
too little OBAMA! didn’t read. :-/
#39
Warren Buffer???
the Sage of Bayer?
McCain Palin Packin 2008
VOTE B1TCHES!
Tanned Banker
Volker?! Did he skip history class?
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