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If this movement wants to do any good it needs to push for fundamental change through campaign finance reform. Just electing Obama again, or electing whoever the next charismatic leader type person again won't do any good if he/she and the rest of congress are still bought and paid for by the corporations and special interests. Let's address the root cause and make CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM the main goal of these protests!!!

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[-] 1 points by jbh (12) 13 years ago

11 Reasons Why Occupy Wall Street Protesters Are Hypocrites If They Do Not Call For Barack Obama To Resign (User Submitted)

Posted Oct. 16, 2011, 12:14 a.m. EST (4 days ago) by jbh | edit | delete

If the Occupy Wall Street protesters truly believed in the things that they are proclaiming, then they would be calling for the immediate resignation of Barack Obama and his entire cabinet. The truth is that the Obama administration is responsible for most of the things that Occupy Wall Street is supposedly complaining about. If the Occupy Wall Street protesters were intellectually honest, we would see a flood of anti-Obama signs during these demonstrations. But instead we have barely heard a peep of criticism for Obama. In fact, the vast majority of the protesters seem very excited about sending Obama back to the White House in 2012. As will be clearly demonstrated in the rest of this article, this makes the Occupy Wall Street protesters tremendous hypocrites. If Occupy Wall Street wants to have any credibility whatsoever, it needs to call for Barack Obama to resign. Either Occupy Wall Street protesters will call for Barack Obama to be held accountable for his actions, or they are just a bunch of sheep. They cannot preach to us about how principled they are and yet turn a blind eye to everything that Barack Obama has been doing for the past 3 years.

Below I am going to analyze many of the demands that Occupy Wall Street protesters have been making. A lot of them have been directly taken from the formal list of complaints posted on the "official" organizing website of Occupy Wall Street.

As you will see, there are a whole lot of reasons why there "protesters" should be very angry with Barack Obama.

But we all know that nearly all of them will show up to vote for Obama once again in 2012.

Just like so many "true conservatives" apologized for George W. Bush for all those years, now we are seeing those on the left apologize for Barack Obama.

It is truly sickening.

For a lesson in economics and to be able to formulate a cogent argument, get past any indignation over the "hypocrite" label and read the rest of this article at :

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/11-reasons-why-occupy-wall-street-protesters-are-hypocrites-if-they-do-not-call-for-barack-obama-to-resign

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[-] 1 points by bannik311 (83) 13 years ago

What a well thought out and informative post. Perhaps it would be put to better use on a website dedicated to his re-election campaign.

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[-] 1 points by OWSForObama (151) 13 years ago

That would be like preaching to the Choir!

All sorts of people visit this site.

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[-] 1 points by bannik311 (83) 13 years ago

And just saying OBAMA 2012 is going to convince them to re-elect him? Perhaps you should edit your post and make a coherent argument as to why he should be re-elected.

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[-] 1 points by OWSForObama (151) 13 years ago

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[-] 1 points by bannik311 (83) 13 years ago

At an inappropriate venue. If re-electing Obama is your goal perhaps you should donate to his campaign. That would be far more productive instead of taking away from the real message of the OWS movement

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[-] 0 points by JonFromSLC (-107) from West Valley City, UT 13 years ago

4 more years is all we need to go into a depression. We need someone that doesn't have a D or an R in their name. Plain and simple.

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[-] 0 points by TIOUAISE (2526) 13 years ago

"If Occupy Wall Street wants to have any credibility whatsoever, it needs to call for Barack Obama to resign".

I tend to agree... I think they may be waiting for just the right moment.

But also we should remember this : this is NOT about political stripe, but about an overhaul of the WHOLE, CORRUPT SYSTEM. Just changing the face of the Prez won't change much at all.

I suspect OWS is hoping to UPROOT the whole, rotten-to-the-core STATUS QUO and is slowly preparing the American people to clamor for it.

I sense that very soon millions of Americans will be streaming in the streets of Everytown chanting:

"We're not gonna take it

no, we ain't gonna take it

we're not gonna take it anymore"

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[-] 1 points by jbh (12) 13 years ago

What is the main objective of OWS? What is it hoping to accomplish or change by sitting in on Wall Street? After a month on Wall Street, is there any plans to move on to DC? The White House or Capital?

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