They were primed by the carefully cultivated "Trust" in House and Senate Banking Committee Chairs, their regulatory agents, in the SEC, in the long-revered houses like Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch: unable to even process the idea that the contract into which they entered was - by definition - their demise.
...Alway a bigger dawg. The Predators of the Lending Species, now flush with bonus money, dominate campaign fundraising, spawn natural enemies, keep up appearances and with the Joneses and hide in Congress. They enter their own version of the Arms Race, matching dares, out-witting the cunning cheats poised to eat them alive for the slightest mistake, surviving - just barely - in a dog-eat-dog, "Trust Nobody" scheme to find fresh turf, virgin voters and property buyers. We of the PUMA cult warned; the top three recipients of Wall Street Campaign contributions were Christopher Dodd, Barney Frank and Barack H. Obama. Oh, Oprah, the molested-as-a-child Mogul, opened a school for African Girls and who moves in? PREDATORS. She became one of the richest people on earth. No predation there. What Woman wouldn't trust such a success purist to pick her President for her? She of the Trinity United Church of Christ,
http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/2002/april1/1.38.html
What the Oprah phenomenon also shows, though, is that this brand of spirituality is ultimately unsatisfying. Perhaps the most telling thing about Oprah's role as a spiritual leader to the seeking masses is that she herself is such an ambitious seeker. Indeed, the smorgasbord of religions and ideas that make up her belief system suggest that she still has not found what she's looking for.
Soon there'll be none left to eat but each other.
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