The Eleven Pens of Barack Obama
Author: Danny Schechter, Huffington Post
Jul 27, 2010
"With eleven pens for souvenirs, President Obama signed the financial reform bill in a rare celebratory moment. Significantly, the ceremony did not take place in the Oval Office but up the block at the Ronald Reagan building perhaps to signal recalcitrant Republicans that this is a cause they should sign on to.
It wasn't clear if he was aware that he was signing up for the a new volatile phase of struggle to rein in out of control financial power.
The three GOP lawmakers who voted for the bill receiving a standing O, from the largely democratic crowd that watched Obama embrace Paul Volcker while Elizabeth Warren stood by applauding (before taking her picture with the former Fed head.)"
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