(from TheWeeklyStandard) ‘Obama Attacks Private Equity, Raises Funds from Private Equity Leaders’

AN EXCERPT:  President Obama is attending a fundraiser today in New York City that will be hosted by Hamilton E. James, the chief operating officer and president of Blackstone. The financial firm Blackstone is “one of the world’s largest private equity fund businesses,” according to its website…But ironically, Obama today is using Mitt Romney’s background in private equity as the basis of an attack on his Republican rival.

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