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Obama campaign goes ‘all in’: casts its lot with Occupy movement
Hot Air ^ | October 16, 2011 | Howard Portnoy

Posted on 10/16/2011 9:08:23 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Having failed abysmally in his day job, Barack Obama has rediscovered his community organizer roots. The day after the Democrat-controlled Senate voted down his jobs bill, he told an audience:

We will keep organizing and we will keep pressuring and we will keep voting until this Congress finally meets its responsibilities and actually does something to put people back to work and improve the economy.

How convenient then that a loosely knit and malleable agglomeration of angry protesters has suddenly emerged on the scene in the persons of Occupy Wall Street movement. Protesters’ demands, which vary depending on whom you ask, make them easy pickings for an experienced community organizer like Obama.

Which is why, after voicing lukewarm approval of the protest movement, Team Obama has gone “all in,” to borrow a term from the game of poker. Senior campaign adviser David Plouffe said in an interview:

We intend to make [the anti-Wall Street anger] one of the central elements of the campaign next year. One of the main elements of the contrast will be that the president passed Wall Street reform and our opponent and the other party want to repeal it.

I’m pretty confident 12 months from now, as people make the decision about who to go vote for, the gut check is going to be about, ‘Who would make decisions more about helping my life than Wall Street?’

Plouffe acknowledges that there is a risk in attempting to channel this anger, but it is clearly one that Obama is willing to take, considering the “lousy cards” he is currently holding.

But there is a risk as well for Republicans, who are counting on the Occupy movement to collapse of its own weight. If it doesn’t and the masses come to accept Obama as their savior, he could be swept into office for a second term, and for the same messianic reasons as in 2008—just by a different electoral demographic.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics
KEYWORDS: economy; obama; obamaows; occupy; occupywallstreet; ows
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Why do the press and the bloggers act as if this wasn't an Obama construct in the first place?
1 posted on 10/16/2011 9:08:27 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t look now, Zero but you’re one of their targets.


2 posted on 10/16/2011 9:12:56 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Remember, Obama and OWS forget one thing, about the NEW “silent majority” that is putting up with this garbage come next November. I do think history is about to repeat itself and NOT sweep Obama back in.


3 posted on 10/16/2011 9:14:53 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
community organizer roots

His inner agitator.

4 posted on 10/16/2011 9:15:00 AM PDT by Libloather (The epitome of civility.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Remember “citizen army more funded than our military”?
This is only the beginning folks.

How many useful idiots will join the March to kill their parents, behead the bankers?
“They bring a knife, you bring a gun”
“Get up in their face”
“Punish the enemies”
Could we have elected anyone worse?


5 posted on 10/16/2011 9:15:08 AM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru HIM all things are possible.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I hope everyone is listening to his hilarious MLK speech. His fake “negro accent” is just hilarious. I can’t stop laughing. Every other sentence is Rev. Wright. Then he lapses back into his Harvard precision. What a phony bastard.


6 posted on 10/16/2011 9:15:37 AM PDT by anton
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

...and the masses come to accept Obama as their savior, he could be swept into office for a second term, and for the same messianic reasons as in 2008—just by a different electoral demographic.

That is the plan or if it isn’t working they will cause enough upset as elections will be postponed...


7 posted on 10/16/2011 9:17:21 AM PDT by EBH (God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
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To: Donnafrflorida

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts


8 posted on 10/16/2011 9:17:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Better to ask forgiveness than permission.)
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They are simply collaborating. They're all in it together.

One thing I doubt is that the operatives behind this charade will let it "collapse of its own weight." Those who underestimate this development are naive in the extreme.

These herds of useful idiots are being run by stonefaced professional Leftwingers who will not hesitate to have someone killed-- and the violence to produce the bloody shirt they will want to wave next year may be instigated at any time.

9 posted on 10/16/2011 9:18:27 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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Obama has got to lovin’ all of this mayhem. He's not a president but a community organizer at heart and stirring up the protesting masses is right in his sweet zone.
10 posted on 10/16/2011 9:18:56 AM PDT by JPG (America is worth saving. All hands on deck!)
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Or rather the elections will go off as planned, but instead, this will be a possible preview of what will happened with Obama loses.


11 posted on 10/16/2011 9:19:29 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: anton

I tried to watch it but they highjacked it for political purposes.
when they started saying MLK supported health care and the 99%, I changed the channel.


12 posted on 10/16/2011 9:19:40 AM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru HIM all things are possible.)
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" If it doesn’t and the masses come to accept Obama as their savior, he could be swept into office for a second term, and for the same messianic reasons as in 2008—just by a different electoral demographic."

Delusional! There're simple not enough blacks, hippies, and communist revolutionaries to go around. Besides, when the snow flakes start falling the only thing they'll do is re-occupy their parents basement. LOL

13 posted on 10/16/2011 9:20:56 AM PDT by ArchAngel1983 (Arch Angel- on guard / The democrat party "Can Go Straight To Hell".)
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My prediction is this, this will all fade away once the first snowflakes start to fall because these folks are not hardy.


14 posted on 10/16/2011 9:22:14 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama’s copying another socialist, Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. It’s simple: socialism fails—always—so offer the populace the “evil bankers” as scapegoats, and encourage your supporters to mob violence.


15 posted on 10/16/2011 9:22:26 AM PDT by CivilWarguy
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To: Donnafrflorida

Oh yea and unionization. They said MLK loved the unions. If he did, he got a bribe. No one worked harder to keep blacks out of good jobs than the unions.

Hahah. Look at that pig Moochelle. She has the Beyonce lip gloss on, haha, and Biden’s wife looks like a worn out stripper. What a cluster****.


16 posted on 10/16/2011 9:23:25 AM PDT by anton
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To: anton
"Then he lapses back into his Harvard precision. What a phony bastard."

It's even funnier when Hillary does it!

17 posted on 10/16/2011 9:24:13 AM PDT by ArchAngel1983 (Arch Angel- on guard / The democrat party "Can Go Straight To Hell".)
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To: Donnafrflorida

You forgot...put on your marching shoes...

I am more than worried for our nation. Pray for God’s wisdom to guide our country through these dark times.


18 posted on 10/16/2011 9:24:30 AM PDT by EBH (God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
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To: anton
I hope everyone is listening to his hilarious MLK speech.

Trying to rally his people. By next week, they'll all have their marchin' shoes on.

19 posted on 10/16/2011 9:27:18 AM PDT by jersey117
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As harsh as it sounds...

I don’t think 0bama will lose.

Yeah...that is a pretty dismal possiblity.


20 posted on 10/16/2011 9:28:33 AM PDT by EBH (God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
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