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A hedge fund douche whines because in dealing with Chrysler, Obama called hedge fund managers on their bluff.

Expected.

Not a big deal.

Except, like Joe The Plumber, Carrie Prejean, and Rick Santelli, it doesn't take much more than a retarded blog post or campaign question or Miss USA answer or trading floor rant to zoom to the top of the conservative charts.

Smackdown shall commence in three, two, one:

I confess I don’t know a whole lot about finance, so maybe everyone would be better off if I had no opinion.  OTOH, I don’t know a whole lot about how the espresso machine at the coffee place works, either, but that doesn’t necessarily imply that it’s some super-complicated thing that is beyond the comprehension of mere mortals.  Also, the espresso machine doesn’t periodically blind all the customers with scalding water, and the guy who runs it doesn’t then explain how that’s how the machine works, and it will soon fix itself as long as we don’t try to contain the spray of scalding water, and can he please have a few hundred billion dollars from the government now or he’ll boil everyone alive, then dressing up like Thomas Jefferson and muttering darkly about ACORN.  If you want people to take you seriously, investment firm executives, stop writing open letters that make it sound like Marie Antoinette lobotomized you with an ice cream scoop.  Because it gives people ideas.  Do yourselves a very, very large favor and shut the fuck up.