Ignore the above. This is actually the link.

[FGZ] You want to put up that helpful new tube map you've been working on...

And I thought that bailing, or bailing out, was a nautical term . . .

So if Obama bailed out the banks, does that mean he dumped all the water out of them?

I believe that in the form stated it is more a metaphor for removing someone from the tender mercies of the law by posting a bond so that they don't have to sit in a cell until they are called to answer for their deeds. Of course, the financial "experts" behind the whole meltdown will never be called to answer for their deeds, so it all metaphorically falls apart. Rather like The Bailout.