November 30, 2011 11:26 PM
Obama squeezes NYC, Occupiers nail hypocrisy
Wow, New York must be absolutely crazy tonight with traffic what with the lighting of the Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center and three - count 'em, three - fundraisers for Our Fearless Leader - plus the Occupy Crowd, which has to its credit become an equal opportunity critic.And, btw, does it seem like Obama is the least bit interested in the presidency? I mean, he just spent five days eating and golfing and watching games - while the Mideast is blowing up all over the place. The only thing he seems to care about is fundraising.
And why in the world are rich people donating to him at this point? Well, at least the Occupy crowd are getting wise to the hypocrisy:
Occupy Protesters Mobilize for Obama's Visit
By MATT FLEGENHEIMERTina Fineberg for The New York TimesOccupy Wall Street demonstrators made their way to Times Square on Wednesday night to protest an event for President 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.
Escorted by police vehicles as they helped snarl traffic across the Times Square area, beginning at Bryant Park, the group settled in front of barricades on the northwest corner of 53rd Street and 7th Avenue, in view of the Sheraton hotel at which Mr. Obama was expected to appear by 9 p.m.
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.
One man, wearing a mask of the president's face and holding a cigar, carried a sign that read, "I sold out!"
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.
Read more at The New York Times
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