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Occupy Wall Street Could be Disaster for Democrats
Commentary Magazine ^ | 10-4-11 | Abe Greenwald

Posted on 10/07/2011 5:08:25 AM PDT by SJackson

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To: Libloather

They think they’re spawning a movement,

but what they’re doing is filling the awakened sleeping giant with firmer resolve.


21 posted on 10/07/2011 5:31:35 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Travis McGee

Indeed, these are the same nutjobs whining about killing animals for food while wearing leather shoes and belts.


22 posted on 10/07/2011 5:31:52 AM PDT by Vor Lady (Everyone should read The Importance of the Electoral College by Geo. Grant)
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To: Travis McGee
And who bought all those creature comforts for those whiny babies? Likely their Capitalist pig parents. Hey, stupidos, wake up and go back to school! Stop wasting your parents hard earned money!
23 posted on 10/07/2011 5:32:08 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: SJackson

Excellent read. Thanks for posting.


24 posted on 10/07/2011 5:32:33 AM PDT by workerbee (We're not scared, Maobama -- we're pissed off!)
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To: originalbuckeye

Actually, this is why they are protesting -

they want to continue to get their needs and their creature comforts supplied to them with no effort expended on their own.


25 posted on 10/07/2011 5:33:52 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: SJackson

“Bammy’s primary enablers are getting the classic communist treatment!...They always turn on their enablers once in power.

Wall St’s gettin’ its community ORGANIZED!!!


26 posted on 10/07/2011 5:36:48 AM PDT by mo
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To: capydick

>>> I have my doubts as to whether or not he Pubbies are savvy enough to notice this and articulate it in a way that reasonates past the MSM. >>>

You miss the point of the article - which is that it matters not what the politicians or the media does - the people will see it, period.


27 posted on 10/07/2011 5:36:58 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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To: ctdonath2

1968. Democrat Convention. Chicago. Riots in the Streets. Nixon beats Humphrey.


28 posted on 10/07/2011 5:44:32 AM PDT by Mother Mary
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To: SJackson

Some thoughts:

1) These folks will be ‘thrown under the bus’ by Obama and most of the left....these demonstrators are,after all, NOTHING but useful idiots or cannon fodder for the hard left. Th left has always been very good at sacrificing their own for the ‘cause’.

2) The media will paint Obama as a ‘moderate’ and not the Marxist that the ‘evil Tea Party’ says he is.

3) This is all a ‘street show’ for the independents voters to sway them.

4) Conservatives will NOT be convinced that Obama is some sort of moderate but the gullible indies might.

JMO...


29 posted on 10/07/2011 5:47:40 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: Mother Mary
Nixon beats Humphrey.

Wallace 3rd party
30 posted on 10/07/2011 5:47:49 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: SJackson
In unhinged “Occupiers,” conservatives would find an easy and clean target to run against and destroy.

Ha! In this case "clean" is only a figure of speech.

31 posted on 10/07/2011 5:50:26 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SJackson

If it turns into mass rioting then yes, the electorate will flee to the right, just as they flocked to Nixon in 1968.

On the other hand, if they keep it peaceful, and come up with some reasonable sounding demands which are picked-up by the Democrats (control bank fees, limit credit card interest, enforce cramdowns and haircuts on mortgages, etc.) this movement could become politically very dangerous.

This country has a fit of anti-banking populism on a more or less cyclical basis, and we are overdue. Not to mention I have always felt that there were a whole lot of my fellow Americans who were just real eager to buy into John Edwards’ “Two Americas” crap if they could just come up with a less slimy salesman.


32 posted on 10/07/2011 5:53:45 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SJackson

If Obama’s ties to Ayers and his “reverend” Wright weren’t a disaster, I doubt very much this will be. The degree of liberal stupidity apparently knows no limit.


33 posted on 10/07/2011 5:55:38 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: SJackson

None of the celebrity pukes named in the first paragraph are particularly “poor”.

Funny how they think they can speak for those of us who are eating ramen noodles & PBJ sandwiches.


34 posted on 10/07/2011 5:56:44 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Travis McGee

That is awesome.


35 posted on 10/07/2011 5:58:38 AM PDT by txmissy
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To: SJackson

The Wall Street protesters are pawns and particularly willful and gullible ones.


36 posted on 10/07/2011 5:59:06 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne (Fall on your knees before Christ, your only salvation!)
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To: originalbuckeye

Hey, stupidos, wake up and go back to school! Stop wasting your parents hard earned money!”””

IF their parents had a lick of sense, they would stop underwriting the actions of their ne’er-do’well kids.

They re long past the time to be pushed out of the nest. As long as the parents continue supporting them, they will never get a job.


37 posted on 10/07/2011 6:00:22 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: uncbob

>>Wallace 3rd party<<

Right. Thanks.


38 posted on 10/07/2011 6:00:35 AM PDT by Mother Mary
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To: SJackson

Drugs have fried these wacko’s pea-sized brains.


39 posted on 10/07/2011 6:00:57 AM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: SJackson

This is getting to the point where the only thing to do is find the humor in the situation.

The left always tries to use the mob to get their way. But, if the mob gets out of control, like in ‘68, the leftists experience the blowback themselves. As in the election of Nixon.

As The Stranger says, “Sometimes you eat the b’ar, sometimes the ba’r eats you”.


40 posted on 10/07/2011 6:07:58 AM PDT by ngat
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