Posted on 10/16/2011 4:09:32 PM PDT by Evil Slayer
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.
Thousands took part in demonstrations this weekend around the world, many voicing their anger at the bail-out of banks and government austerity packages. “It is ridiculous the government is willing to pay out over a trillion pounds to bail out banks while at the same time cutting our pensions and benefits in the name of austerity,” offered Tai Wardallg, a protest organiser in London.
But some bankers and others in the protesters’ sights sought to spread the blame. Andreas Schmitz, head of the German banking federation and chief executive of HSBC Trinkaus, told the Financial Times on Sunday that protests against banks
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Translation: (RINO) Eric Cantor totally whimped out!!!!
Jesus already threw the money changers out of the Temple. You just know he has to top that by throwing the money changers out of Wall Street
Aren’t there laws against inciting riots, especially when it’s the President? (Impeach Obama!)
I keep getting the same either way I mix it. Must be on to something......
the protestors are something that barry soetero understands.
he does not understand how to be president.
I have a very, very bad feeling about these protests. I was born in 1960, right after the “revolution” in my parents’ Cuba. What is happening right now is eerily similar to what my aunt and parents described happening in Cuban over 50 years ago. This is no grass roots movement, either. This is orchestrated AND it’s well-funded. May God be with America and protect her, or may His Son come back soon, because what is happening has NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING to do with freedom.
C'mon, that's something only a professional community organizer could pull off.
Oh, wait...
Thanks for posting that. I feel the same way.
Well there is already a picture of the Chosen One Dear Leader walking on water. Well, walking across some reflecting pool thing with some things to walk on which were just beneath the surface. He does have some apparent aspirations to be the Antichrist.
no comments from Cantor regarding the antisemitic hate from the group...hmmm.
I am 56. I can remember a time when Americans who opposed a political viewpoint did so at the ballot box. There would be meetings new candidates put forth and perhaps change would occur. But they never spat on other Americans, didn’t call each other liars and cheats. They talked.
Now days we see an almost violent disagreement between groups. People ridicule those they oppose. And I have to say that this more a Leftist action than one from the right.
But what I find even more alarming is those that see this and think that a President could be backing this. Either covertly, behind the scenes, or overtly through words. I see it and I too think that right away. Never in the past did we hear of people (serious numbers of people anyway) who would think this right away. Now days, the Left automatically thinks and says this. Those of us who seemed to be condemned for being on the Right, now do the same and I think with more justification than those on the Left. Do I think that Obami has planned this or is reacting to the “Occupiers”? With no proof I can’t say, but I would not doubt it. And that doubt is what scares me. That am American President could plan something like this, or would take advantage of it.
To the “99%”er’s, your wants and wishes mean very little to me. I have worked and paid for what I have and have paid for my mistakes. What I have now is mine. Pay your bills, grow up and take bath.
I too never thought in a million years that I would ever have to say what I did in my previous post, but to much has happened with this marxist to put a blind eye to what he is trying to do.
He has been beating this drum for three years now and people are frighteningly falling in line with him (Germany in the early forties comes to mind here). He started the Arab spring with his speech in Egypt, he has told people to get in the face of other Americans, he had divided this nation into haves and havenots, and he is destroying the economy, left the borders open, and has ignored the Constitution for his warped ideology.
We better wake-up, and soon.
” - - - 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. - - - “
Thanks for this post. One of the many advantages of a long Primary is that the true nature of the candidates AND their supporters often-times comes out.
Eric-the-Rino FINALLY proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that: 1.) He has bought into the idea of Class Warfare; and 2.) Eric Cantor is irrevocably a Republican In Name Only.
A DOUBLE Bipartisan Cave-In! Disgusting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey Eric! Enjoy your visits to the many OBAMAVILLES in your Obamanation!
Obama said: “Dr King would want us to challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonising those who work there.”
Actually, it should read: Obama said: “Dr King would want us to challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonising those who work there and make campaign donations to me”.
The big problem for the "occupiers" and "99 percenters" is that they chose the terms that create lousy imagery.
Why "occupy" and "occupiers" are bad is self-explanatory. Was not this a bad word just recently when the Left was using it to describe our mission in Iraq as "occupation"? Now they are embracing it for their own takeover of public space and ambitions of taking over private enterprises and property. Overwhelming majority of people - who work and are concerned about their jobs - understand where the employment and their paychecks come from, and don't think that the "occupiers" are good for the economy or the jobs.
The "99%" sounds good and big on surface, but essentially it puts almost everybody (anybody who is not in the top 1% of earnings) in a position of being a "loser" i.e., the 5%-ers, 10%-ers, 20%-ers etc. etc.
Otherwise successful people, middle-class people, normal people with any kind of achievement or pride in their work and life are made to feel that they are being forcibly "adopted" into the faceless mass of "99% losers" - they couldn't possibly like it, so they are rejecting the dubious "honor" of being a part of this "99%"
"Occupiers" do not invoke sympathy and are not adding to or broaden the base of their support or Democratic voting block; if anything, they are exposing who they are, the group which are supporting them, and they are turning away many who would still contribute and vote for Obama and Democrats, despite the bungled economic and foreign policies. The longer "99% losers" keep the "occupation" going, the more permanent losses Democrats will incur. This is not the '60s and '70s, no matter how much they try to replay the old script.
They will either get tired of the protest that will be fruitless (because they don't know what they want and what to do about it) and will steadily lose interest from the media which will latch onto another story when the interest in the story and their ratings inevitably go down, or some of them will decide to escalate their frustrations over lost attention and indifference to their plight. In either case, the "occupation" will fail miserably and the politicians who supported them will themselves lose support. So the longer they can keep these "occupations" going, the more damage they will cause for Democrats and other liberal "causes" and movements.
From In Private, Wall St. Bankers Dismiss Protesters as Unsophisticated - CNBC / NYT, by Nelson D. Schwartz and Eric Dash, 2011 October 15
But when they speak privately, it is often a different story. “Most people view it as a ragtag group looking for sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll," said one top hedge fund manager. "It's not a middle-class uprising," adds another veteran bank executive. "It's fringe groups. It's people who have the time to do this." As the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations have grown and spread to other cities, an open question is: Do the bankers get it? Their different worldview speaks volumes about the wide chasms that have opened over who is to blame for the continuing economic malaise and what is best for the country. Some on Wall Street viewed the protesters with disdain, and a degree of caution, as hundreds marched through the financial district on Friday. Others say they feel their pain, but are befuddled about what they are supposed to do to ease it. A few even feel personally attacked, and say the Occupy Wall Street protesters who have been in Zuccotti Park for weeks are just bitter about their own economic fate and looking for an easy target. If anything, they say, people should show some gratitude. "Who do you think pays the taxes?" said one longtime money manager. "Financial services are one of the last things we do in this country and do it well. Let's embrace it. If you want to keep having jobs outsourced, keep attacking financial services. This is just disgruntled people." He added that he was disappointed that members of Congress from New York, especially Senator Charles E. Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, had not come out swinging for an industry that donates heavily to their campaigns. “They need to understand who their constituency is," he said. ..... < snip > ..... John Paulson, the hedge fund titan who made billions in the financial crisis by betting against the subprime mortgage market... “The top 1 percent of New Yorkers pay over 40 percent of all income taxes, providing huge benefits to everyone in our city and state," he said in a statement. “Paulson & Company and its employees have paid hundreds of millions in New York City and New York State taxes in recent years and have created over 100 high-paying jobs in New York City since its formation." ..... < snip > ..... Without a coherent message, the crowds will ultimately thin out, Wall Street types insist — especially when the weather turns colder. They see the protesters as an entertaining sideshow, little more than flash mobs of slackers, seeking to lock arms with Kanye West or get a whiff of the antiestablishment politics that defined their parents' generation. ..... < snip > Publicly, bankers say they understand the anger at Wall Street — but believe they are misunderstood by the protesters camped on their doorstep.
The "occupiers" are turning off the people who naturally would have sympathy for them and their politics, and who, in effect, have financed and contributed to their causes.
More "occupations" and "We're the 99%!" rhetoric, please!
The zombie apocalypse has arrived!
I am just as disturbed by Cantor’s comments.
We know the Kenyan Marxist will act this way
It’s reprehensible for the Majority Leader to make those comments... What a disgrace
Obama is a Marxist. The politically Correct name is Redistributionist.
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