I’m puzzled.
Given all of the violence, the lawlessness, the bigotry and the ugliness the Occupy Wall Street movement (and its off-spring) represent, why hasn’t the president spoken out –in a clear, forceful voice – against it?
It can’t be because he thinks it’s none of his business. This is a man, after all, who injected his thoughts on the arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates and in the process accused the Cambridge police of acting “stupidly.” Obama has spoken out about the location of the Ground Zero mosque and the 2016 Olympic Games; the reaction of Republican audiences at GOP debates; and the Penn State child rape scandal. He’s suggested that racism is a driving force in the Tea Party movement. He gives sermons on civility in public discourse. And he’s made his picks for the NCAA Final Four on ESPN. Obama talks all the time, on llmost every issue under the sun. And yet when it comes to the actions of protesters at the various Occupy movements around America, he suddenly goes practically mute.
To the degree Obama has spoken out about the Occupy movements in cities all across America, his words have been sympathetic ones. He has issued no forceful condemnations of the rapes, the arson, the drug dealing, the anti-Semitism, and all the other things that have marked, and marred, the Occupy protests.
It could be the president believes there’s a political interest in siding with OWS. But perhaps there’s something else, and something deeper, at play here. Perhaps the former community organizer and academic has found himself in deep, natural sympathy with OWS and its aims. Perhaps he sees in the protesters his younger self. Perhaps he sees in them his philosophy, unconstrained by political considerations. Perhaps its agenda is, in many important respects, his.
If that’s not the case, then what explains Obama’s unwillingness to condemn the disgraceful and disgusting things we’ve seen and heard? Why is a man who loves to comment on unfolding events decided to turn a blind eye to a (largely) lawless, and in some respects anarchistic, movement that his own words have helped inspire? I’m open to other possibilities. But for now, Occum’s Razor applies. The president is sympathetic to and supportive of OWS. We see in it what Obama sees in himself — and ominously what he hopes to soon see, on a large scale, in America.
There IS a political interest. Brooklyn's Working Families Party – the kingmaker in New York, where Democrats ask voters in robo-calls to vote for them on the WFP line. Obama's ground troops in 2008, and also in 2010 in NYCD1. n nWFP may have plausible deniability for the Zuccotti Park OWS encampment strategy, but do you truly believe it was not a deliberately planted seed?
It just makes the right so mad about the ows, they can not stand the fact that they do not have any control over the ows. leave them people alone the left had it's day in the sun the famous Tea Party.the more spin you put out there the more your going to turn people off to you and they will start watching the ows and relate to the message so keep it up.
Seldom does anyone encounter an individual as truly delusion as you give evidence of being in your post. Far from being frustrated at a lack of control over the ows crowd, Americans are sickened at the filth, degeneracy, and out of control sense of entitlement the ows crowd demonstrates. Please continue this farce as it is the very best political commercial to vote conservative one can imagine! Thousands of people daily are seeing what liberalism truly looks like and are finally waking up. For that, we thank-you for your public service to our country!
Yeah right! Americans are sickened? That must be why the OWS movement has grown to encompass 147 US cities. Stop using the Faux news negative depictions as truth and you may have a different view of the movement. You know…the Faux news that knowingly showed the violent protesters in Madison Wisconsin, which was actually video of a protest in California from the previous year. The Faux news that showed piles of trash at OWS that were actually piles of supplies and sleeping bags.You condemn OWS for the homeless insane people that our government in its infinite wisdom released into the public because they didn't want to pay for their care. You know…the ones that were sent to Zucotti Park by the NYPD to get a meal and some shelter. Sense of entitlement? People who were told since childhood that if they go to college they can get a good job when they graduate. Now, because of the greedy scum on Wall ST. that caused our economic meltdown and the resultant lack of jobs. These kids are saddled with a mountain of debt, with no jobs in site. These kids are protesting about WANTING a job!
The “sick” people you mention were let out of hospitals and institutions because of LIBERALS who said it was their RIGHT to be free and their rights were being violated. Thanks liberals for taking away their care.