Petrash: So, what's Obama really up to?  Larry  Petrash  Over
the past year, during the political campaigns, and since, I’ve
written much about the Democratic Congress and about President
Obama’s quest for greatness by changing America. With skillful
oratory and salesmanship, with vague goals and incentives, which
he continues, he convinced a majority of voters to elect him
into office. Since that time he’s urged America and Congress to
do everything quickly. “Do it quickly” equates to “do it now
before the American voters catch on.” This past week he made a
media blitz, appearing on five Sunday broadcasts —capping it off
with a Letterman Show appearance Monday night — in an attempt to
sell his health care agenda. A true spirit of bipartisanship and
compromise? Hardly.  Obama has realized he doesn’t have to
literally own the banks to control them. He has, instead,
achieved control through bank dependence on TARP and stimulus
money and through his own control techniques. Step out of line
and a bank will be pub