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Obama to Wall Street: I'm on Your Side, Pay No Attention to My Campaign Rhetoric


Barack Obama's campaign manager, Jim Messina, assured a group of Wall Street contributors that they shouldn't get upset about Obama's campaign rhetoric, because he is really on their side.  



According to a Bloomberg report, Messina assured the donors that Obama won't "demonize" Wall Street, even as he stresses populist appeals in his re-election campaign.


"At the members-only Core Club in Manhattan, Messina provided a campaign briefing last night for some of the President's top donors," Bloomberg reports. 


"In response to a question, Messina told the group of Wall Street donors that the President plans to run against [Mitt] Romney, not the [Wall St. gambling] industry that made the former Governor of Massachusetts millions," according to one of those attending the meeting.


Some of those at the meeting at a private club in Manhattan, were: Ralph Schlosstein, chief executive officer at Evercore Partners Inc., and his wife, Jane Hartley, co-founder of the economic and political advisory firm Observatory Group LLC; Eric Mindich, founder of Eton Park Capital Management LP; and Ron Blaylock, co-founder of GenNx360 Capital Partners.