OCCUPIERS TURN ON OBAMA
10:06 p.m. | Updated More than 100 Occupy Wall Street protesters marched to a Midtown hotel on Wednesday night to protest a fund-raising event for President Obama.
Demonstrators held signs that leveled some of the Occupy protest’s most pointed criticism to date of the president. “Obama is a corporate puppet,” one said. “War crimes must be stopped, no matter who does them,” read another, beside head shots of President George W. Bush and President Obama. Ben Campbell, 28, one of the march’s organizers, said he hoped to prove to skeptics of the protests that the demonstrators were political critics of equal opportunity. “President Obama is coming to town solely to raise money from the richest of the rich,” Mr. Campbell said.
One man, wearing a mask of the president’s face and holding a cigar, carried a sign that read, “I sold out!”
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+14It will be interesting to see the spin the liberal/progressive Obama supporters who have been backing OWS will put on this. Let me start it for them, "these protesters were plants"! LOL Let the BS from the left begin.
Of course the diehard obama commies will always support the obama
A simple question OWS'ers.
What benefits the 1% or Wall Street more?
Would love to hear your answers.
Nobody knows what they want, or why. Whatever happened to Reason?
Egad, everything I've seen on SH this morning indicates major turmoil ahead. It's getting worse by the hour.
Almost as if it was an non-politicized spontaneous display of middle-lower class solidarity worldwide not motivated by Obama or any other leader...
Gee, that sure is unthinkable.