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Obama extends support for protesters

TheDemSocialist said:
I mean why would Obama say he agrees with the protesters message when Obama is funneled millions of dollars from Wall Street?
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Its called politics and cashing in on an opportunity. It is a common activity among our public officials.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
I mean after reading the article all obama said on it was High “Dr King would want us to challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonising those who work there."
He didnt really say anything on the protesters message... I mean why would Obama say he agrees with the protesters message when Obama is funneled millions of dollars from Wall Street?
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Of course Barrack Obama got millions from Wall Street, more than any other candidate, and the Democratic Party governs New York State, New York City and Wall Street and is regulated by the Dodds Frank bill.

And despite the ongoing corruption, the continued mix of big government, big labor and big business, where billions of dollars go missing, these poor undereducated fools will be blaming the opposition as being in the pocket of big business. Their ignorance is breathtaking.
 
Grant said:
Of course Barrack Obama got millions from Wall Street, more than any other candidate, and the Democratic Party governs New York State, New York City and Wall Street and is regulated by the Dodds Frank bill.

And despite the ongoing corruption, the continued mix of big government, big labor and big business, where billions of dollars go missing, these poor undereducated fools will be blaming the opposition as being in the pocket of big business. Their ignorance is breathtaking.
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Not quite as both parties are bought and paid for, and there's nothing to suggest that the OWS is a very democrat movement.

"Leftist" maybe, but democrat not so much.
 
Jetboogieman said:
Not quite as both parties are bought and paid for, and there's nothing to suggest that the OWS is a very democrat movement.

"Leftist" maybe, but democrat not so much.
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I haven't seen them target or support anyone in particular myself. Hopefully they really believe in this and keep the message the message as opposed to turning this into politics.

That doesn't mean that no political entity won't try and latch onto it. It's hard to try and stop those who just want to ride the bandwagon.
 
Jetboogieman said:
Not quite as both parties are bought and paid for, and there's nothing to suggest that the OWS is a very democrat movement.

"Leftist" maybe, but democrat not so much.
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Not quite what? Leftists or Democrats? You feel this is the Tea Party out there?

Which party do you think has most of their support, or is supporting them? Doesn't Obama and Pelosi already feel their pain?
 
Grant said:
Crazy? Others can see where he was spot on.

What makes you think he's crazy?
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I think there's a saying about broken clocks being right twice a day that applies here.
 
atrasicarius said:
I think there's a saying about broken clocks being right twice a day that applies here.
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WOW! Someone certainly went to a lot of effort to try and discredit him!

Hope they made some money out of it, otherwise they're obsessing.
 
Temporal said:
This interview sums the situation up wonderfully, and it puts Obama's quote into proper context.

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These guys are playing dueling banjos with morse code + their eyelids
 
So the same president that charges $30,000 to have a picture taken with him sympathizes with the hooligan Wall Street protesters?
 
Erod said:
So the same president that charges $30,000 to have a picture taken with him sympathizes with the hooligan Wall Street protesters?
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Seriously, that is very ironic.
 
MrVicchio said:
Challenge the excess of Wall Street? Is that what we've come too? Is this "Progress"? Where success is to be seen as evil?
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Talk about completely missing the point.

I don't think, in the long sad far-right history of DP, has any one post summed up the totally false understanding the right has about Wall Street.

Are you under the impression that there exists a level playing field in this country? That anyone one who works hard and studies hard can be a millionaire?

Riddle me this, V, where was the invisible hand 2001-2007?

(hint: American greed overpowers any free market self-correction)

Repeat after me: It's about fair play and level playing field.
 
hazlnut said:
Repeat after me: It's about fair play and level playing field.
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Nah. Animal Farm (and history) tells me a different story.
 
liblady said:
see, that could be your problem, forming your opinions based on fiction.
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There's a philosophical message within that fiction.
 
pbrauer said:
Thanks Con, that has to be one of the stupidest videos I've seen lately. I love the hand written sign on an old cardboard box. There are homeless people with better signs than that. Is this guy looking for a love partner??:lamo
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He went to the right place as everyone there seems to to want to make love not make work
 
The President spoke of the protests today, while he was in NC:

Obama: Occupy Wall Street ‘Not That Different’ From Tea Party Protests

“I understand the frustrations being expressed in those protests,” Obama told ABC News senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper in the interview to air this evening on ABC News “Nightline” from Jamestown, N.C.

“In some ways, they’re not that different from some of the protests that we saw coming from the Tea Party. Both on the left and the right, I think people feel separated from their government. They feel that their institutions aren’t looking out for them,” he said.
The full Tapper interview with Obama will air tonight on “Nightline” at 11:35 ET.
Obama said the most important thing he can do as president is express solidarity with the protesters and redouble his commitment to achieving what he described as a more egalitarian society.

“The most important thing we can do right now is those of us in leadership letting people know that we understand their struggles and we are on their side, and that we want to set up a system in which hard work, responsibility, doing what you’re supposed to do, is rewarded,” Obama said. “And that people who are irresponsible, who are reckless, who don’t feel a sense of obligation to their communities and their companies and their workers that those folks aren’t rewarded.”
Obama alluded to his American Jobs Act, which would be funded in part by raising taxes on wealthier Americans and some corporations in order to make them pay “their fair share.”

“We’re at a critical moment in this country where if we can regain some of the values that helped build this country that people, I think, long for, when they feel that everybody gets a fair shake but we’re also asking a fair share from everybody, if we can go back to that then I think a lot of that anger, that frustration dissipates,” he said."

Obama: Occupy Wall Street ‘Not That Different’ From Tea Party Protests - ABC News
 
They are different. The Tea Party wants American government to get the hell out of the way, not continue on the failed path of trying to rig the system even more with the same disastrous results.
 
Catawba said:
The President spoke of the protests today, while he was in NC:

Obama: Occupy Wall Street ‘Not That Different’ From Tea Party Protests

“I understand the frustrations being expressed in those protests,” Obama told ABC News senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper in the interview to air this evening on ABC News “Nightline” from Jamestown, N.C.

“In some ways, they’re not that different from some of the protests that we saw coming from the Tea Party. Both on the left and the right, I think people feel separated from their government. They feel that their institutions aren’t looking out for them,” he said.
The full Tapper interview with Obama will air tonight on “Nightline” at 11:35 ET.
Obama said the most important thing he can do as president is express solidarity with the protesters and redouble his commitment to achieving what he described as a more egalitarian society.

“The most important thing we can do right now is those of us in leadership letting people know that we understand their struggles and we are on their side, and that we want to set up a system in which hard work, responsibility, doing what you’re supposed to do, is rewarded,” Obama said. “And that people who are irresponsible, who are reckless, who don’t feel a sense of obligation to their communities and their companies and their workers that those folks aren’t rewarded.”
Obama alluded to his American Jobs Act, which would be funded in part by raising taxes on wealthier Americans and some corporations in order to make them pay “their fair share.”

“We’re at a critical moment in this country where if we can regain some of the values that helped build this country that people, I think, long for, when they feel that everybody gets a fair shake but we’re also asking a fair share from everybody, if we can go back to that then I think a lot of that anger, that frustration dissipates,” he said."

Obama: Occupy Wall Street ‘Not That Different’ From Tea Party Protests - ABC News
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How many T.E.A. Party Protesters have been arrested?
 
Catawba said:
The President spoke of the protests today, while he was in NC:

Obama: Occupy Wall Street ‘Not That Different’ From Tea Party Protests
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Many dismissed this when I brought it up.
 
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