In addition to the obvious misplacement of that asterisk, there’s also the issue of whether “Wall Street-loving” applies to Obama. In his cover story, Jonathan Alter disputes this by simply noting that “his financial-reform package, while watered down, was the most vigorous since the New Deal.”

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