Posted on 10/16/2011 2:46:48 PM PDT by woofie
Barack Obama, US president, offered more support for protesters against the global financial system after a weekend of demonstrations in cities around the world, but called on them not to “demonise” those who worked on Wall Street.
On Sunday, Mr Obama honoured Martin Luther King at a dedication to a new memorial on National Mall in Washington. Referring to protests that have spread from Wall Street to London, Rome and elsewhere, Mr Obama said: “Dr King would want us to challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonising those who work there.” Mr Obama had previously said the protests “express the frustration” of ordinary Americans with the financial sector.
A top Republican in Washington dramatically altered his stance on protesters involved in Occupy Wall Street just one week after comparing the movement to “angry mobs”. Eric Cantor, the Republican majority leader in the House of Representatives, told Fox News on Sunday that Republicans agreed there was “too much” income disparity in the country. “More important than my use of the word [‘mobs’] is that there is a growing frustration out there across the country and it is warranted. Too many people are out of work,” he said.
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Eric Cantor - playing to the mob. The GOP still looking for the courage to stand their ground.
Better yet...where are ours?
He is. The problem though is the mobs don’t have the education to follow the logic to a reasonable conclusion. And they are not willing to learn it either.
God Save the Nation
P E R F E C T
LOL!!!!
UN-F*ing-believable. Who got to Cantor?
INCOME DISPARITY?
All of the Jew bashing from the Marxist pinkos in NYC and Obama still thinks that history will show that these were well-intentioned people.
This jive a&& turkey is a devil spouting evil lies.
After his witch hunting of the tea party movement, any division in America in the Obama years is because he wanted it.
Wonder which country he will retire to. Indonesia? Pocky-stan?
I agree that there are some disparities of income. Bill Gates is welcome to steal as much of his firm’s profits as he wants, but when he appealed to the US government to import more low wage workers from India to do jobs in my high skilled tech profession that I pursued a college degree for, well that’s just plain lying to Congress and p!ssing on another man’s shoes.
Note that Bill Gates is one of the billion dollar marxists insisting that I am not paying enough in taxes. I don’t call for confiscation of his wealth. I just want to see him STFU.
No way this flop-eared S.O.B. can have above 10% support.
Hopefully, he'll retire to hell where he belongs.
Anyone think the MSM would buy this if Bush had tried the same?
It cannot be a revolution if the President supports it. The proper terms would be counter revolution, coup d’etat or a tyrannical grab for power.
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