White House On Occupy Wall Street Protests: “We Understand”…
(WaPo) — I’m pretty sure this exchange at today’s briefing with Jay Carney represents the first time the White House has been asked to weigh in on the Occupy Wall Street protests — yet another sign of the movement’s astonishing growth in recent days:
QUESTION: Have the “Occupy Wall Street” protests reached a level of the President’s engaged awareness? Is he sympathizing with the protestors? Is he concerned about the protests at all?
CARNEY: I haven’t discussed it with him. I’m sure he’s aware of it because he follows the news. I would simply say that, to the extent that people are frustrated with the economic situation, we understand. And that’s why we’re so urgently trying to focus Congress’s attention on the need to take action on the economy and job creation.
And as regards Wall Street, I mean, one of the things that this President is very proud of is the consumer protections that were put into place through legislation that Republicans are now eager to try to dismantle. We think that’s a bad idea. . . Because these are common-sense consumer protections that would prevent the kind of abuse that credit card companies engaged in against credit card holders, that would protect against some of the actions that were taken that led to, or contributed to, the financial crisis that we saw in 2008. These were measures that the President felt were very important, and there’s a clear effort within the Congress to prevent the full implementation of legislation by holding up this nomination. We think that’s cynical and a bad idea.
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Of course they understand! Have you seen that list of demands? It’s the same thing as the Obama agenda! Good God, we are so screwed!
I posted this earlier but it needs to be said again. Look at TODAY in the Obama Presidency:
So today alone we see the stock market tanking, the debt going up by 1/10th of one trillion dollars, American Airlines about to collapse, pictures of Obama with black militant racists, Obama’s signature car (Volt) in sales shambles, and an Obama taxpayer-financed Big Corporate green project (Nevada Geothermal Power) about to declare bankruptcy.
And this is only today.
He didn’t notice the 100s of thousands of TEA Partiers in DC a year and a half ago, but he’s well aware of a few hundred smelly communist hippies, whining in the street. Riiiight…
“Next question. Why are you such a D-bag? You didn’t answer the previous question so I don’t expect you to answer this one. Stop changing the subject. Douchebag.”
John Thomas:
You stole my thunder.
I’ll never forget when the Tea Party in the hundreds of thousands was in D.C. and Obama said he didn’t notice they were out there.
I bet he wishes he could go hang with the scum who make up his base on Wall Street.
That’s where he belongs!
Of course they understand. They want that bottom to rise up so they can clamp down. Gotta have that crisis. This is all coordinated. Don’t fall for any of this commie shit.
Hippies occupy wall street and they “understand”, the Israelis build a few homes in their nation’s capital and they are “disappointed”.
WHAT HE SAID, (CARNEY ) IS OBAMA KNOWS HE SENT THEM THERE, NOW PASS THE BILL.
Of course the facsisit on wall street are understood by the facsists in WASHINGTON D.C.(DISTRICT of CRINIMALS)their one and the same and these snakes are nasty and evil
This may seem far fetched (I don’t think so), but I wonder if barry and his ilk are not trying to gin up a phony crisis with the Wall Street hippy protest in order to mask what seems to be an imminent credit lock up a la 2008. The five major banks (Morgan Standley, BofA, Citi, Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo) that have a massive amount of exposure in Credit Default Swaps all tanked just today between 4% – 10%. Not looking good……
Voting age needs to go to 21 again we are not drafting anymore, we took the drinking age back to 21 when that didn’t work out, they will just be coming out of collage brainwashed, but it will save us a few years when they know everything.
No one there knew why they were there.
“Paper Boy” calmly does his route early in the morning….then
shows up at the WH ready to KICK ASS. You go, “Paper Boy”!
Of course Obama knows about them, he helped organize the protests.
The administration and its supporters, ie. the Soros funded organizations are tacitly if not directly fueling this effort. Same as they helped along the Arab spring. The pattern is the same: ignore hundreds of thousands of right to lifers, Tea Partiers etc. They are orderly in their protests and don’t break the law when they assemble. But let a few hundred confused malcontents and dirty anarchists loose on the street, why its the beginning of a whole new era for the country! I pray this effort to spread anarchy in the nation is seen for exactly what it is, and blows back int eh face of those who are perpetuating it. More Americans are waking up to this malarkey but are enough us waking up fast enough? Obama and his posse are gambling that we are not.
this will be a common thing this year, astro-hippies sent by WH to give cover to barrys new ‘narrative’
a corrosive treacherous president
hope and change
The blighthouse supports their fellow facsists
White House On Occupy Wall Street Protests: “We Understand”…
Because we are the ones behind this shit.. they left that part out… just like they’re behind the flash mob test runs for 2012.
I can’t wait till obama and his admin is out of office.. and on trail.
Issa seems to be smiling more these days.. I wonder if he has gotten a huge payout or if he has the goods to take obama and holder down…?
I’d have to disagree – you guys don’t “understand” squat – but you will! Start packin’!
God bless America, our troops, Israel, and fellow humans.
Of course they know and understand, Van Jones and SEIU are behind the “protests”. Most of the useful idiots can’t even tell you why they are there.