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Barack Obama Led #OccupyChicago – Circa 1988
BigGovernment.com ^ | 10/28/2011 | by Joel B. Pollak

Posted on 10/25/2011 5:44:20 PM PDT by Carbonsteel

Just twenty or so years ago, Barack Obama wouldn’t just have supported the Occupy protests.

He would have organized them.

From Stanley Kurtz’s essential Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, pp. 117-8:

In fact, Obama personally helped plan one of UNO’s most confrontational actions of the eighties [in 1988]: a break-in meant to intimidate a coalition of local business and neighborhood leaders into dropping a landfill expansion deal.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: chicago; illinois; occupychicago; occupywallstreet
I usually pride myself in that I knew, for the most part, who Obama was before he was President and that's why I didn't vote for him.

This however, I did not know.

1 posted on 10/25/2011 5:44:24 PM PDT by Carbonsteel
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