The Subtly Cynical Classical Liberal

• One-third of Obama’s fundraising has come from the financial sector.
• $11.3 million from the finance, insurance, and real estate sector.
•  All of Obama’s “bundlers” – top fundraisers who obtain donations from people and groups in their business, professional, and personal networks – have raised at least $34.95 million.
• President Obama and the Democratic National Committee are on pace to far exceed the amounts raised from Wall Street donors in 2008, both in raw dollars and as a percentage of what he raises overall.

The following are all prominent Wall Streeters working under President Obama.

Jon Corzine

• Former Goldman Sachs CEO.

Charles Myers

• Evercore Partners executive.

Steven Green

• Greenstreet Real Estate Partners CEO.

Azita Raji

• Former investment banker for JPMorgan.

Wall Streeters in President Obama’s cabinet

Lawrence Summers

• Director of the National Economic Council; Obama’s top economic adviser.
• Pocketed $5 million from D.E. Shaw (one of the largest hedge funds globally), and $2.7 million for speaking to Wall Street firm that were bailed out, including $45,000 from Citigroup and $67,500 each from JPMOrgan-Chase and Lehman Brothers, and $135,000 from Goldman Sachs.
• Oversaw the lifting of basic financial regulations dating from the 1930s.

Michael Froman

• Deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs.
• Worked for and received more than $7.4 million from Citigroup, including a $2.25 million year-end bonus.
• Since his addition to the Obama Administration, Citigroup has been the beneficiary of $45 billion in cash and over $300 billion in government guarantees of its bad debts.

David Axelrod

• Obama’s campaign’s top strategist and senior advisor.
• Pocketed $1.55 million last year from two Wall Street firms.
• Agreed to buyouts that will garner him another $3 million over the next five years.
• Disclosure claims personal assets of between $7 and $10 million.

Thomas E. Donilon

• Top deputy nation security adviser.
• Pocketed $3.9 million by a Washington law firm whose clients include Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Apollo Management.

Louis Caldera

• Director of the White House Military Office.
• Pocketed $227,155 last year from IndyMac Bancor, the California bank that heavily promoted subprime mortgages and now receives government bailout money.

David Stevens

• Head of the Federal Housing Administration, president and chief operating officer of Long and Foster Cos., a real estate brokerage firm.
• Top executive for Freddie Mac from 1999 to 2005.

Neal Wolin

• Deputy counsel to the president for economic policy.
• Top executive at Harford Financial Services where his salary was $4.5 million.