Among the many miscellaneous, putrid lies and deceptions uttered by top banking executives in Politico's superb coverage of the White House-Wall Street spat, this one, to my mind, leads the mangy pack:
"You have to understand, it is very personal. [Obama] raised money from us. Then he started calling us bad people. So forgive us for not wanting to buy him a drink after getting punched in the eye."
Flash: Candidate Obama didn't so much "raise money" from elite bankers as they voluntarily doused him in it. They're businessmen. They don't donate cash to politicians based on warm pangs of sentiment. They back winners -- in 2008's case a sure winner -- in the hope that those winners will then back them. Political finance is almost always mercenary, not friendly. Even schoolchildren understand that.
Hence this hawked deception of presidential betrayal is as about as bankable of a lie as any of their familiar others.