First Michael Moore and now Naomi Wolf are speculating that the recent crack-downs on OWS were … are you sitting down? … coordinated by Obama. Citing a single unnamed source (actually, citing the same source twice through two different bloggers, so that she can claim confirmation), she alleges that DHS has coordinated the crackdowns. The sinister right-wing Obama Administration did this because OWS was threatening politicians’ ability to make money from campaign donations.
So, when
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Story here. What do you think? I can’t help but think that these kind of responses only provoke more protests. As far as I can tell, the UC Davis occupy encampment was unsightly but not dangerous. Spray them and they’re martyrs. Ignore them and they’re spoiled college students living in tents to demonstrate …. something.
Yup, you heard that right. In fact, it is even more damning because, well read for yourself:
In his weekend radio address, President Obama decried that “over the past three decades, the middle class has lost ground while the wealthiest few have become even wealthier.” Although he was trying to leverage the Occupy Wall Street movement, the income gap has been a longstanding concern of his.
During the 2008 campaign, Obama said, “The project
The good news is that it appears all that yammering done by the OWS crowd on the evils of capitalism, is just that, yammering, and when the rubber meets the road, they understand the value a buck as much anybody, whew, I was worried there for a while.
The 99%, no, not this guy:
but those Che wearing Mao quoting souls actually braving the elements (hey, it beats working for a living), have come up … Read more
It got ugly last night in Oakland and Atlanta.
Protesters are blaming the police; police are blaming the protesters. My bias is toward free speech and against cops busting it up. They Oakland cops have already been caught fibbing about the use of flash-bangs. We’ll see what comes out.
Elizabeth Warren is now claiming that she provided Occupy Wall Street with its “intellectual foundation” (stop that laughing back there).
I guess she’s talking about her famous rant, which I fisked here. But honestly, this is more of a delusion of grandeur. Warren has a very clear agenda — more government in the financial sector, higher taxes and a government that treats non-rich citizens like children. OWS is neither that coherent nor that organized.… Read more
I am sure that the usual suspects in the LSM have to be heart broken by the results of this USA Today poll about whom Americans blame for the depressed economy. Here is how the USA Today writer tries to salvage the day:
Most Americans blame Wall Street for the nation’s economic predicament — but they blame Washington more.
And in the democracy that fancies itself the capital of capitalism, more than four in
I dismissed the OccupyWallStreet crowd last week as the usual medly of agitators, rent-a-mobs and students. That might still be the case. But there is something very deep that they’re tapping into that I wanted to unwind while I still can. The movement is already being hijacked by unions and Democrats. Even Obama is trying to claim he’s on OWS’s side, which is, needless to say, hilarious:
Despite his rhetorical attacks on Wall Street,
I just can’t take these guys seriously. That’s what it amounts to. I’ve seen them run this dog and pony show out there too many times: for Republican conventions, for IMF meetings, for the Iraq War, for Earth Day. And they fall into an all-too-familiar pattern.
Step One: Identify an actual issue.
This can take time, since your professional protester can find issue with just about anything but it’s hard to find an issue … Read more
