Posted on 10/07/2011 9:07:54 AM PDT by tobyhill
As the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators moved to Washington on Thursday and swarmed outside the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, President Obama was at the other end of Lafayette Square trying to align himself with the swelling protest movement.
“I think it expresses the frustrations that the American people feel, that we had the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, huge collateral damage all throughout the country, all across Main Street, and yet you’re still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to fight efforts to crack down on abusive practices that got us into this problem in the first place,” the president said at a news conference in the East Room.
For the struggling president, the nascent movement offers a chance at salvation, the opportunity to excite liberals with the sort of populist energy that has fueled the Tea Party for two years. But, as liberal leaders already know, the young movement must be careful to avoid Obama’s embrace: He decimated the progressive cause once, and he would do it again if given the chance.
Liberal activists who rallied behind Obama in 2008 watched as he defied their wishes and instead made unrequited concessions to the Republicans. “Every one in this crowd, I am certain, has had disappointments and frustrations with this White House,” Robert Borosage, a director of the Campaign for America’s Future, told the audience as he convened the Take Back the American Dream Conference, an annual gathering of liberal activists in Washington, this week. He accused Obama of being “too cautious” and “pre-compromised” and criticized his performance on jobs, global warming, defense and foreign policy.
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So the unwashed masses are now swarming the US Chamber of Commerce????
More targeted action against those troublesome opponents of the Won
” As the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators moved to Washington on Thursday “
Huh??
I was under the impression that the OWS gaggle was still trashing New York, and this was a whole new group of weenies..
Am I wrong, or is this just another example of sloppy WP reporting/writing??
I hope Obama and the Democrats fully embrace the “Freebaggers” because it’s only a matter of time before those losers start throwing rocks and bricks through store windows and setting buildings on fire. It’s in their DNA.
Obama already has Anti-Semitic vote.
they say the movement is expanding day by day, but we are also going into the pre-winter months. weather in New York is going to deteriorate next week. Cold and Rainy! An early winter will put this story to an end! why would anyone wanna risk the flu/bug over campaigning for something of which they can’t even define? Well, uh, I am here to bitch about wall street and the intercontinental astroperiphical masterbatable obama job plan for the rights of squirrels to magnatify in society !!
See post number 7. One nice thing about overconfident marxist scum is that they can’t help but create evidence against themselves.
I would bet that if you dig down into this liberal mess, you will find a bunch of Soros (et al) money flowing....
Acorn, with a new name, same brain dead stuck on stupid.
Gonna be a real treat watching them Occupy Michigan through January and February.
This is Obama’s and the MSM’s trick up their sleeve that's doomed to failure.
They tried to do this in 2004 to run Bush out of office with Circular Anti-War Protest throughout the nation and once it failed and Bush was re-elected the MSM and Rats suddenly dropped it.
http://www.fastcompany.com/1785698/occupy-wall-streets-leadership-trail?partner=gnews
an alliance?? obama and these smelly hippies are kindred spirits- they both think America is criminal and do nothing but b!tch about our great nation....
His popularity is sinking and it's looking like he won't be re-elected. They are getting desperate.
The whole thing is achingly contrived and I really don’t get the sense that anyone outside the MSM is being fooled. This is street theater, nothing more, and it represents an attempt by two of 0bama’s base groups, the unions and the academic progressives, to provide cover for 0bama’s low poll numbers, marginalize the genuinely populist Tea Party rallies, and intimidate anyone who doesn’t go along with the programs they want. 0bama isn’t intimidated, he’s in bed with these people. This is as phony as the Coffee Party.
BTW, what did happen to the “Coffee Party”?
So let’s get this straight...They are rallying against wall street losing taxpayer money on a bad bet (Housing) while supporting someone who single-handedly lost 500 million on a bad bet. No hypocracy there....
...has made them slaves to the state...
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