Obama is finding the going very tough and his government has seen the popularity rating crash like hell in the last few months. The rising unemployment is only making more people disapprove his government and he does not seem to be faring well on putting back the housing sector in order.
There is no way for the US government to get back the funding done to the ailing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as these companies are continuing to take more loans from the government. So the only way out for the government is to see whether some gimmick could be done in terms of a popular token repayment by AIG, say some pessimistic experts.
There seems to be some merit in such a doubting thought, because the AIG is sitting on a huge 90 billion dollars outstanding to the US government and given the uncertain future hanging before the US economy, it would make sense for the company to keep the cash for future eventualities rather.
Assuming a worst case scenario of another bout of recession in US, then AIG would come back to the government for a bigger bailout loan, say these experts. That also could not been washed away, if you were to just look back at the recent history of AIG.