Everyone remembers this infamous election season photo; it's a 2008 classic, America romanticizing the dreamy, bold, ballsy new guy who'd shown up on the scene. We'd just broken up with George Bush, after all, and we were feeling pretty beaten towards the end. And in walks Barack Obama to twitter John McCain into submission. He reached out to the young adults in ways no one had before; OMG look, there he is using what we use to talk to us. So at least he had us on his side - not to say all it takes is a little Twitter and some promises of clean energy but something worked.

In fairness to the President, he (or rather, his Internet Marketing Team) is attempting to maintain that legacy on the revamped White House website, but long gone are the days when we turned him into the most badass LOLcat we'd ever seen. Obama was going to make us forget allllll about that other guy, he was going to fix the economy, and he was going to twitter about it all the way.

And where is that bad ass motherfucking Obama seen above who was going to march into the White House and take it back from mean old Bush and make everything better again? Saying this about a meeting with 15 of the biggest banksters in the country:

“Show that you get that this is a crisis and everybody has to make sacrifices,” Obama, in an interview with CBS News later in the day, said he told them [15 large banking execs]. “They agreed and they recognized it. Now the proof of the pudding’s in the eating.”

WTF is that supposed to mean?

While it's awfully cute that your speech writers feel the need to fill you with anecdotal bullshit about pudding when referencing how you dealt with 15 of the country's most subversive economic terrorists (don't mince words, that is what some of these men amount to), Mr. Obama, I remind you that we are at the least counting on that public speaking ability for which we fell in love with you.

Geithner certainly isn't going to do it.

I actually recommend the Bloomberg article on the meeting, which makes it sound like a group therapy session. Why no rush on paying back TARP? "Obama told the executives that banks shouldn’t return the money until they have adequate capital, so as not to hinder their ability to lend money." Why don't they want the money back? These banks aren't lending one way or another.

If Washington won't let them pay back TARP, why don't they just launch it from their corporate jets a la B-52 Bernanke?