Honest Obe

Washington Monthly, Nov, 2007 by Charles Peters

> All of this helps explain why I was proud of Barack Obama when he told a roomful of Wall Streeters that they must abandon their "what's good enough for me is good enough." He continued: "If we are honest, I think we must admit that those who have benefited from the new global marketplace--and that includes almost everyone in this room--have not always concerned themselves with the losers in this new economy."