Barack Obama used the bully pulpit of the American Presidency to encourage what is fast becoming a disaster, otherwise known as the Occupy Movement. As city after city across America struggles to deal with the mess our community-organizer-in-chief helped to spark, it’s time for him to assume the role of adult and leader and bring these destructive protests to an end.
As the Occupy Movement began to pick up steam, Barack Obama was quick to encourage them with his own words of support. It was no secret, having been reported broadly, as it was here in the Financial Times. But what a difference a month makes.
White House Draws Closer To Occupy Wall Street, Says Obama Is Fighting For The Interests Of The 99%
The White House continued its embrace of the Occupy Wall Street protests on Sunday, using the strongest terms yet to identify President Barack Obama with the growing movement. In a call previewing Obama’s upcoming bus tour through North Carolina and Virginia, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama “will continue to acknowledge the frustration that he himself shares,” about Washington’s laggard response to the financial crisis.
Earnest added that while on the trip, Obama will make it clear that he is fighting to make certain that the “interests of 99 percent of Americans are well represented” the first time the White House has used the term to differentiate the vast majority of Americans from the wealthy.
Just a day after Obama was busy speaking in Asia, more comonly referred to as Hawaii, his hometown newspaper, The Washington Post unleashed a scathing indictment of the Occupy Movement, asking if it’s “an occupation or an infestation.”
Given that as President he encouraged and partly owned this movement, it’s time for Barack Obama to do the right thing and call for the so called occupiers to stand down. The cost to taxpayers and local businesses around the country is bad enough. Add in the deaths, crimes and significant imposition upon America’s law abiding citizens, clearly it’s time for Obama himself to say enough is enough.
The Occupy movement: More trouble than change?
The movement began as a protest of major economic and political issues, but lately the most divisive issue has become the protests themselves. The Occupy Wall Street encampments that formed across the country to spotlight crimes committed on Wall Street have become rife with problems of their own. There are sanitation hazards and drug overdoses, even occasional deaths and sexual assaults.
Is this an occupation or an infestation?
Recent news updates from Occupy protests read like a crime blotter: A man shot near the encampment in Oakland. A homeless person dead in Salt Lake City. A suicide in Vermont. Two drug overdoses and a molotov cocktail in downtown Portland, Ore. A sexual assault in Philadelphia. Hypothermia in Denver, police brutality in California and a 53-year-old man unnoticed in his tent in New Orleans, dead for at least two days.
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