Morning Examiner: Playing with populist fire

Published October 17, 2011 4:00am ET



We intend to make it one of the central elements of the campaign next year,” Obama senior adviser David Plouffe said of Bank of America’s recent imposition of a $5 fee for using a debit card. “One of the main elements of the contrast will be that the president passed Wall Street reform and our opponent and the other party want to repeal it,” Plouffe finished telling The Washington Post.

Has Plouffe checked to see where the Democratic National Convention is scheduled to be next year? It is in Charlotte, North Carolina, which also happens to be the corporate headquarters of the White House-demonized Bank of America. Does Obama 2012 really want to make “Eat the Rich” their unofficial campaign slogan?

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