"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html
Posted on 10/16/2011 6:22:52 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
NEW YORK - Thousands of demonstrators protesting corporate greed filled Times Square on Saturday night, mixing with gawkers, Broadway showgoers, tourists and police to create a chaotic scene in the midst of Manhattan.
"Banks got bailed out, we got sold out!" protesters chanted from within police barricades.
Police, some in riot gear and mounted on horses, tried to push them out of the square and onto the sidewalks in an attempt to funnel the crowds away.
Sandy Peterson of Salt Lake City, who was in Times Square after seeing "The Book of Mormon" musical on Broadway, got caught up in the disorder.
"We're getting out of here before this gets ugly," she said.
Sandra Fox, 69, of Baton Rouge, La., stood, confused, on 46th Street with a ticket for "Anything Goes" in her hand as riot police pushed a knot of about 200 shouting protesters toward her.
"I think it's horrible what they're doing," she said of the protesters.
"These people need to go get jobs."
Among the people participating in that march was Sergio Jimenez, 25, who said he quit his job in Texas to come to New York to protest.
"These wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were all based on lies," Jimenez said.
"And if we're such an intelligent country, we should figure out other ways to respond to terror, instead of with terror."
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
You're welcome. But there is plenty of vital info right there in the excerpts. ("Vital" to understanding what this crap is really about--hopefully, some useful idiot participants reading this will wake the hell up and realize they're being used big time) The links are there to show the source and for more in-depth reading.
Thousands of slackers,losres,freeloaders Fill NYC’s Times Square.Bet they get their food a corp. fast food joints,so much for protesting.
I would be SO pi$$ed if I had booked a flight and hotel for a Broadway weekend and this crap went down. The tourist industry in NYC should jump down these people’s throats.
The incongruity of protesting those that got bailed out with those who bailed them out is staggering. History starts with the last utterance of the One.
The color red in the communist flag represents the blood of the proletariat shed in events leading up to the Russian Revolution.
Red combined with black are the colors of the world-wide anarchism movement. The movements' flag is red and black. The two colors are most commonly used by the anarcho-syndicalists, the anarcho-communists and leftist unions and labor activists.
The black and red costumes of Obama and family on election night were by design both an outward show of ideological exultation combined with a sublimal message to the world that the presidential seat in the United States would finally be occupied by not only a black, but a red as well.
Leni
Where I live in PA there are plenty of buses going to NYC everyday for commuters or shows, etc. It's a pricey day if you're going to a show. Who wants to put up with those mobs...
Exactly...
Good point!
"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html
The answer is: 'Unemployed Idiot.'
He probably is...
Yes, the left is looking for a Kent State moment, a crisis that can be exploited to stop the disastrous defeat they face in 2012. A few, or many, deaths will be looked at as a small price to complete their takeover of the US.
I had a great trip to NYC last Christmas season after not visiting for years, and stayed at Times Square. I can’t imagine anybody seeing these images would take the risk of planning a trip until this mess is under control.
"This president can be a transformative leader (he has that potential in my view), but only if he embraces and fights for a transformative agenda."--Sam Webb, Chairman Communist Party USA
Obama State of the Union: He got the ball rolling:
http://cpusa.org/obama-state-of-the-union-he-got-the-ball-rolling
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"We are 5 days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America"
--B.H.Obama, 2008
Yahoo search results for "Fundamentally Transforming The United States Of America":
http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=moz35&p=%22Fundamentally+Transforming+The+United+States+Of+America%22&SpellState=n-2204099546_q-bsN.LA3I3%2F%2FdGaQgkeauogAAAA%40%40&fr2=sp-top
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"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek"-- BARACK OBAMA
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From the website of the Communist Party, USA...
(prior to the election)
"The Communist Party USA views the 2008 elections as a tremendous opportunity to defeat the policies of the right-wing Republicans and to move our country in a new progressive direction.
The record turnout in the Democratic Presidential primary races shows that millions of voters, including millions of new voters, are using this election to bring about real change. We wholeheartedly agree with them."
http://cpusa.org/cpusa-2008-electoral-policy/
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After the election....
A Landslide Mandate For Change
A breakthrough election
Congratulations on an extraordinary history making election!
We can think back with pride to decades of hard work toward our strategic goal of a big enough, broad enough and united enough labor and all-people’s movement that could overcome the ultra-right blockage to all progress. That all people’s movement has come to life, it is dynamic and it has the potential to keep growing.
The election of Barack Obama and a strengthened Congress creates new conditions in our country. There is now the possibility to shift gears and move forward. This new day requires us to further develop our tactics in order to continue to deepen and broaden labor and people’s unity.
There are thousands of experiences that we all have had in these momentous days, some large, some small, all of which express the enormity of change in thinking and readiness for involvement that is underway and that steels us for the battles ahead.
The tears of joy we all shared as crowds gathered to watch the election results here and throughout the world dramatize the new moment we are in.
http://cpusa.org/a-landslide-mandate-for-change-report-to-the-national-committee-meeting-11-15-08/
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July 1, 2009...
Change is Here, Change is Coming
Sam Webb, National Chair, Communist Party, USA:
Let me begin with a simple observation: If the last 30 years were an era of reaction, then the coming decade could turn into an era of reform, even radical reform. Six months into the Obama presidency, I would say without hesitation that the landscape, atmosphere, conversation, and agenda have strikingly changed compared to the previous eight years.
In this legislative session, we can envision winning a Medicare-like public option and then going further in the years ahead.
We can visualize passing tough regulatory reforms on the financial industry, which brought the economy to ruin.
We can imagine the troops coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan while U.S. representatives participate in a regional process that brings peace and stability to the entire region.
In the current political climate, the expansion of union rights becomes a real possibility.
Much the same can be said about winning a second stimulus bill, and we sure need one, given the still-rising rate, and likely long term persistence, of unemployment.
Isn’t it possible in the Obama era to create millions of green jobs in manufacturing and other sectors of the economy in tandem with an attack on global warming?
Can’t we envision taking new strides in the long journey for racial and gender equality in this new era, marked at its beginning by the election of the first African American to the presidency?
And isn’t the overhaul of the criminal justice and prison system – a system steeped in racism – no longer pie-in-the sky, but something that can be done in the foreseeable future?
All these things are within reach now!
http://cpusa.org/change-is-here-change-is-coming/
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"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html
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Obama State of the Union: He got the ball rolling:
http://cpusa.org/obama-state-of-the-union-he-got-the-ball-rolling
Philadelphia...10/15/11
EWWWWW it must be really smelly down there among the morons? Lysol won’t kill whatever is harboring down there. Should they ever leave, that place needs to be nuked to clear out any germs, lice or God knows what-else.
“Banks got bailed out, we got sold out!” protesters chanted from within police barricades.
My feelings EXACTLY. Honestly as a conservative I could be there as a old fart chanting that myself. I don’t agree that global corporations should have the right to own and control our USA politicians. Global corporations that are paid OUR tax money, put it at risk to run their corporations and that want USA borders open. They now consider our USA sovereignty an inconvenience. If the gripe of these protesters is about demanding an end to crony capitalism and our nation returned to the people, I agree. Those are exactly my sentiments the issues that initially made me a Tea Party supporter.
Global corporate philosophy is different from the time when big corporations were American, employing Americans, strongly interested in USA security, and keeping their profits in the USA. They were part of the fabric of the USA. Their gain was our gain. Today these global corporations like GE are more likely to spend their tax payer subsidized R&D to China along with our nation’s security.
Phoenix...
I wonder if the liberal Broadway actors are supporting the protests.
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