Have you seen an ordinary American rise up in rage at the AIG bonus fiasco?Over the last several days, I have read in the newspaper of record and heard on TV, the phrase "populist rage," "angry Americans," and here "the fury of ordinary Americans bubble up" from Ms. Dowd, vis a vis AIG and the bonuses. I don't doubt that many are shocked at the chutzpah of these financial racketeers, but this morning on the subway, the usual thoughtful and knowledgable crowd was attending to their prayers, the sports page, the kid in the over-sized stroller; no enragement, no talk of AIG.Has anyone here actually spotted an American foaming at the mouth over AIG? Please report in!

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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