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White House feeds off protest anger

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I find this incredible because I believe the protesters are feeding off of Obama's Class War statements the put the rich in the cross hairs, along with any successful business.

These idiots don't seem to know where jobs come from. They seem to buy Obama's stupid damn idea that Government is the answer and redistribution of wealth is a good thing.

Only damn fools think that socialism/communism can work here, because it has never has and never will.
When you level the playing field everyone ends up poor and jobs go away.'

Obama is continuing to feed the unruly, unwashed, uninformed with his comments, along with Nasty Piglousy, and other imbecilic fools.

White House feeds off protest anger - FT.com

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Weeks after taking to the streets in Manhattan, Occupy Wall St demonstrators are camped a block from the White House. Many of them are wondering: do they have a friend inside?
While not endorsing the protests, Barack Obama and Joe Biden have expressed understanding of the movement that has spread rapidly across the country.

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Mr Obama said people were angry because Wall Street had not been “following the rules”. His vice-president even compared the movement on Thursday to the Tea Party, the conservative movement which has upended national politics in the past two years.
 
I find this incredible because I believe the protesters are feeding off of Obama's Class War statements the put the rich in the cross hairs, along with any successful business.

These idiots don't seem to know where jobs come from. They seem to buy Obama's stupid damn idea that Government is the answer and redistribution of wealth is a good thing.

Only damn fools think that socialism/communism can work here, because it has never has and never will.
When you level the playing field everyone ends up poor and jobs go away.'

Obama is continuing to feed the unruly, unwashed, uninformed with his comments, along with Nasty Piglousy, and other imbecilic fools.

Of course the White House is feeding off this bull****. This is just like the French Revolution, where out of control mobs gave the government excuses to do stupid ****.
 
This doesn't bother me because it's a short sighted position. Unfortunately politicians do not consider anything beyond today.

One of two things will happen here. The first is nothing. It will end up like the protests over the Iraq War lead by Cindy Sheehan. Here we are years later and we are sill in Iraq and not only that we are expanding the wars. It was big news for awhile.

Or they actually accomplish something and cause problems for Wall Street. If that happens Wall Street will demand that Obama so something to put a stop to it and if he continues to want their money (which he does) he's going to be put in a no win situation.
 
Of course the White House is feeding off this bull****. This is just like the French Revolution, where out of control mobs gave the government excuses to do stupid ****.

I'm just noting.........the people won that one.
 
Feeding off it ? This is all one big astro-turf Democrat-funded fake movement. Blaming banks and bail-outs .... are these things that just happened yesterday ? Are they protesting the failures of Stimulus ? The wasting of money on such as Solyndra ? Were this "spontaneous", it happens 2-3 years ago. This is all Obama reelection 2012. Since they need to shift the focus off of Obama's utter failure at everything, watch them start to increase the level of civil unrest with these losers.

The majority of Americans are not buying the crap this tme around though. Obama is going down hard in 2012.
 
<gasp> The people are speaking up for ending the Bush era tax cuts, increased oversight for financial institutions and no more bail-outs - things which have all been pushed under Obama - and the White House approves. How dare Obama approve of people saying "you are right!"
 
I'm just noting.........the people won that one.

Another note: over a half million frenchmen were executed for imaginary crimes, too. It's highly debatable if, "the people", won, or not.
 
<gasp> The people are speaking up for ending the Bush era tax cuts, increased oversight for financial institutions and no more bail-outs - things which have all been pushed under Obama - and the White House approves. How dare Obama approve of people saying "you are right!"

They're pushing for more government control of the private sector.

BTW, when did Obama promise no more bailouts?
 
This is all one big astro-turf Democrat-funded fake movement. Blaming banks and bail-outs .... are these things that just happened yesterday ?

Change a few words and it's the Tea Party. "This is all one big Republican-funded fake movement. Blaming spending and taxes....are these things that just happened yesterday?"
 
Another note: over a half million frenchmen were executed for imaginary crimes, too. It's highly debatable if, "the people", won, or not.

I tend to favor the long term view over the short term. Unfortunately it was "the people" who were responsible for many of these executions.
 
Change a few words and it's the Tea Party. "This is all one big Republican-funded fake movement. Blaming spending and taxes....are these things that just happened yesterday?"

How can you possibly compare this to the Tea Party?
 
Change a few words and it's the Tea Party. "This is all one big Republican-funded fake movement. Blaming spending and taxes....are these things that just happened yesterday?"

I've noted that I'm open to see where this goes and I'm not going to slam something because it took awhile for it to build but the Tea Party complaints were pretty much made when what they were complaining about was happening.
 
How can you possibly compare this to the Tea Party?

It's a fake movement funded by one of the parties that are upset over things that have been going on for years. Think it's a coincedence that the Tea Party suddenly started with Obama when deficit spending had been going on for years?
 
I tend to favor the long term view over the short term. Unfortunately it was "the people" who were responsible for many of these executions.

The People won in Russia in 1917, too. And in China in 1947. A more accurate description would be that the, "mob", won.

During the French Revolution, the government was feeding off the mob's anger and using that as reason to perform the executions, because they considered it to be the, "general will", of the people.

Make no mistake, when you have a revolution that executes 600,000 citizens, based on rumors and for crimes amounting to nothing more than being rich, the people didn't win jack ****.
 
It's a fake movement funded by one of the parties that are upset over things that have been going on for years. Think it's a coincedence that the Tea Party suddenly started with Obama when deficit spending had been going on for years?

The Tea Party started with Obamacare. Were you awake during the midterms?
 
It's a fake movement funded by one of the parties that are upset over things that have been going on for years. Think it's a coincedence that the Tea Party suddenly started with Obama when deficit spending had been going on for years?

It started over a program that was enacted under Bush. It's why (in part) they withheld their support from McCain. But this has been pointed out many times and it will likely not make any difference this time either.
 
I find this incredible because I believe the protesters are feeding off of Obama's Class War statements the put the rich in the cross hairs, along with any successful business.

"any successful business"???? Want to give a source on that little statement you're trying to slide up our butts?

These idiots don't seem to know where jobs come from. They seem to buy Obama's stupid damn idea that Government is the answer and redistribution of wealth is a good thing.

Oh really? Want to show us where you got that one as well? Hint: It doesn't count in the real world if it has no basis in fact.

Only damn fools think that socialism/communism can work here, because it has never has and never will.

Where is it stated that the desire is for socialism? I've got news for you. Democracy needs socialism and socialism needs a bit of democracy for their economies to thrive. You may not like that. You may not understand it, but it is true. As for never working in America because it never has and it never will is, ahhh, you know nonsensical. Something won't work because it hasn't and it never will is not why something won't work. Your reference to communism is pure mindless drivel. No one pays any attention to you when you say that because you don't make a great deal of sense anyway.

When you level the playing field everyone ends up poor and jobs go away.

Well that's ****ing odd, Councilman. Because right now after a couple of greed filled decades of raw predatory capitalism everyone is ending up poor and the job have gone away! Weird, innit?

Obama is continuing to feed the unruly, unwashed, uninformed with his comments, along with Nasty Piglousy, and other imbecilic fools.

You've been rather hate filled and nasty lately, Councilman. Perhaps prune juice in the morning will help. Best of luck.
 
The Tea Party started with Obamacare. Were you awake during the midterms?

Tea Party organizers claim that the first nationwide Tea Party protest took place on February 27, 2009, with coordinated events occurring in more than 40 cities.

Read more: History of the Tea Party Movement — Infoplease.com History of the Tea Party Movement — Infoplease.com

February of 2009. Pretty much right after Obama took power. To protest out of control spending that had been going on for 30 years and they suddenly realized it when a Democrat was in power. How gullible are you think it's not the Republicans somehow?
 
It's a fake movement funded by one of the parties that are upset over things that have been going on for years. Think it's a coincedence that the Tea Party suddenly started with Obama when deficit spending had been going on for years?

You need to educate yourself. The Tea Party started a few years before TARP and only gained attention when Bush was still in office - railing against the bank bailouts. You're coincidence is in error. Secondly, the Tea Party is at odds with the Republicans and Democrats who spend tax payer money erroneously and have been doing that for a long time. Continuing to repeat falsehoods is called propaganda - so first educate yourself and second, it's easier to repeat facts than fiction, which brings me to:

Show me the evidence that the Tea Party is "a fake movement" and secondly, show me where it's "funded by one of the parties" --- you mean political party? Which one? I'd like some evidence of that too please... thanksomuch.
 
The People won in Russia in 1917, too. And in China in 1947. A more accurate description would be that the, "mob", won.

During the French Revolution, the government was feeding off the mob's anger and using that as reason to perform the executions, because they considered it to be the, "general will", of the people.

Make no mistake, when you have a revolution that executes 600,000 citizens, based on rumors and for crimes amounting to nothing more than being rich, the people didn't win jack ****.

This is a completely side arguement as IMO even if the Wall Street thing has any impact it's not comparable to what happened in France but IMO France ended up better off.

What happened would have anyway most likely in a far more rational manner like with England today but the complaints were legit.
 
You need to educate yourself. The Tea Party started a few years before TARP and only gained attention when Bush was still in office - railing against the bank bailouts. You're coincidence is in error. Secondly, the Tea Party is at odds with the Republicans and Democrats who spend tax payer money erroneously and have been doing that for a long time. Continuing to repeat falsehoods is called propaganda - so first educate yourself and second, it's easier to repeat facts than fiction, which brings me to:

Show me the evidence that the Tea Party is "a fake movement" and secondly, show me where it's "funded by one of the parties" --- you mean political party? Which one? I'd like some evidence of that too please... thanksomuch.

Indeed. They tossed some very well established (R)'s because of their support of things like TARP and the mess created and they also allowed the (D)'s to win some seats because they refused to back certain party hacks.
 
Change a few words and it's the Tea Party. "This is all one big Republican-funded fake movement. Blaming spending and taxes....are these things that just happened yesterday?"

The organizers of this astro-turf joke would want to pretend this is similar to the Tea Party movement. Which is pathetic. The Tea Party rose in response to Obama's disastrous first year as President, his expansion of Government, Obamacare, Stimulus, and out-of-control debt.

Now we have this garbage group protesting what ? Events prior to Obama (how convenient), which if you follow logic, ending "bailouts" would seem to want less government intrusion in capital markets ..... but wait !! When you listen to them explain, it all comes down to redistribution and wealth envy. More government.

A pox on Obama for fomenting all this just to stay in power. That disgrace of a President will be thrown out with gusto.
 
You need to educate yourself. The Tea Party started a few years before TARP and only gained attention when Bush was still in office - railing against the bank bailouts. You're coincidence is in error. Secondly, the Tea Party is at odds with the Republicans and Democrats who spend tax payer money erroneously and have been doing that for a long time. Continuing to repeat falsehoods is called propaganda - so first educate yourself and second, it's easier to repeat facts than fiction, which brings me to:

Show me the evidence that the Tea Party is "a fake movement" and secondly, show me where it's "funded by one of the parties" --- you mean political party? Which one? I'd like some evidence of that too please... thanksomuch.

Tea Party organizers claim that the first nationwide Tea Party protest took place on February 27, 2009, with coordinated events occurring in more than 40 cities.

Read more: History of the Tea Party Movement — Infoplease.com History of the Tea Party Movement — Infoplease.com

The Tea Party itself claims that they started in 2009. After Bush left office. So yeah, they had a lot of problems with the Bush administration...so many that they waited for him to leave office before they really started up.
 
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