Bush in leaked fundraiser video: ‘Wall Street got drunk’
On Friday, June 18th, at a fundraiser for candidate Pete Olson, President Bush, a Harvard MBA, shared his assessment of the economy after asking that cameras be turned off:
“There’s no question about it: Wall Street got drunk…it got drunk, and now it’s got a hangover. The question is, how long [until it sobers up], and not try to do all these fancy financial instruments?”
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This video is from YouTube, broadcast July 22, 2008.
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