Dear President Obama: Spare us the fake outrage.

Mr. President, it was YOU who rammed the porkulus down our throats without even letting anyone read it.

And it was YOU who received over $101,000 in campaign contributions from the AIG Products Division.

In OTHER words, Mr. President, you will play billy hell blaming Bush for THIS one, you idiot.

Obama Received a $101,332 Bonus from AIG

Posted by Dan Spencer (Profile)

Tuesday, March 17th at 1:44PM EDT

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Senator Barack Obama received a $101,332 bonus from American International Group in the form of political contributions according to Opensecrets.org. The two biggest Congressional recipients of bonuses from the A.I.G. are - Senators Chris Dodd and Senator Barack Obama.

The A.I.G. Financial Products affiliate of A.I.G. gave out $136,928, the most of any AIG affiliate, in the 2008 cycle. I would note that A.I.G.’s financial products division is the unit that wrote trillions of dollars’ worth of credit-default swaps and “misjudged” the risk.

The Washington Post reports a “mob effect” at A.I.G financial products division:

A tidal wave of public outrage over bonus payments swamped American International Group yesterday. Hired guards stood watch outside the suburban Connecticut offices of AIG Financial Products, the division whose exotic derivatives brought the insurance giant to the brink of collapse last year. Inside, death threats and angry letters flooded e-mail inboxes. Irate callers lit up the phone lines. Senior managers submitted their resignations. Some employees didn’t show up at all.

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