“People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.”

This is our suit company.

Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias is threatening to pull state business from Wells Fargo & Co. unless the bank stops trying to liquidate a company that makes suits for President Barack Obama.
Giannoulias made the ultimatum outside a Hartmarx Corp. factory in Des Plaines Thursday. Chicago-based Hartmarx is the nation’s largest maker of men’s tailored clothing.
The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Jan. 23. It employs about 3,000 workers represented by the Service Employees International Union.

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
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Alexi Giannoulias is another key Obama ally and a banking scion. He was elected Illinois State Treasurer in 2006, when Obama was one of the few officeholders backing him. For once, Obama did not back the favored candidate of the machine — that was Paul Mangieri, who had been endorsed by the Illinois Democratic Party, the state party chairman, forty-one state lawmakers, and most statewide officeholders. Instead, Obama endorsed the candidate whose family institution, Broadway Bank, had been loaning money to mafia figures.

You can take the politician out of Chicago, but ….