nawainwright
Expert
Its beginning to sound a little like one of Longbow's novellas.
Obama Voices Empathy With 'Frustration' Behind Anti-Wall Street Protests | Fox News
Pelosi has come out and gone "even further, praising the Occupy Wall Street crowds for their youth, focus, and effectiveness. “God bless their spontaneity,” she said."
So....Tea Parties are "astroturf" but a camp out by a couple hundred college kids and unemployed gets co-opted by Moveon and the unions and thats "spontaneous"?
Call me crazy, but there's just something DISGUSTINGLY REPULSIVE about a sitting POTUS coming out and expressing support for one group of people against another. While you may say that he "doesn't actually say that anywhere" its pretty clear that he is trying to set up a counter-tea-party movement, desperately hoping that this one will come out to the polls for him.
Ultimately though, I believe most of these people aren't really "in it to win it", whatever that even means. The Tea Party began with a concise purpose and goal that was fairly clearly stated. While they have added new "planks" the primary remains the same for the majority. This group doesn't have a concise (or realistic for that matter) platform. They have a hodge-podge of wishlist items (one such is all debt for everybody in the US should be eliminated). They begin with 14 items that they voted for online (which oddly when its an internet poll whether Ron Paul is a viable candidate it is chalked up as garbage and loaded, but when its a bunch of overgrown adolescents deciding what they want to write on cardboard, suddenly it gains legitimacy).
It's one thing to protest when you're just skipping the college your parents are paying for or when you're already unemployed/under-employed. Its a whole new thing when you have to give up a REAL paycheck to attend "Burning Man DC". The only way that works is if you're a teachers union.....OOOOHHHHHHH!!!!
Obama Voices Empathy With 'Frustration' Behind Anti-Wall Street Protests | Fox News
Pelosi has come out and gone "even further, praising the Occupy Wall Street crowds for their youth, focus, and effectiveness. “God bless their spontaneity,” she said."
So....Tea Parties are "astroturf" but a camp out by a couple hundred college kids and unemployed gets co-opted by Moveon and the unions and thats "spontaneous"?
Call me crazy, but there's just something DISGUSTINGLY REPULSIVE about a sitting POTUS coming out and expressing support for one group of people against another. While you may say that he "doesn't actually say that anywhere" its pretty clear that he is trying to set up a counter-tea-party movement, desperately hoping that this one will come out to the polls for him.
Ultimately though, I believe most of these people aren't really "in it to win it", whatever that even means. The Tea Party began with a concise purpose and goal that was fairly clearly stated. While they have added new "planks" the primary remains the same for the majority. This group doesn't have a concise (or realistic for that matter) platform. They have a hodge-podge of wishlist items (one such is all debt for everybody in the US should be eliminated). They begin with 14 items that they voted for online (which oddly when its an internet poll whether Ron Paul is a viable candidate it is chalked up as garbage and loaded, but when its a bunch of overgrown adolescents deciding what they want to write on cardboard, suddenly it gains legitimacy).
It's one thing to protest when you're just skipping the college your parents are paying for or when you're already unemployed/under-employed. Its a whole new thing when you have to give up a REAL paycheck to attend "Burning Man DC". The only way that works is if you're a teachers union.....OOOOHHHHHHH!!!!
