Rep. John Lewis Rejected by "Occupiers"...

They aren't going to win over anyone with antics like that. John Lewis deserves their respect. Shameful.
 
Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. shares his stories of being brutally beaten for his civil rights activism and his hopes for President Elect Barack Obama ...

 
Dixie said:
I love how you Libbies are now referring to the occupiers as "they" ....like you aren't a part of them... it's so cute!

Yes, it IS shameful.
Click to expand...

The Democrats are embracing:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/52702884-68/movement-party-street-wall.html.csp

Democrats embrace Occupy Wall Street while GOP berates it

By James Oliphant

Washington • The days of the Democratic Party keeping the Occupy Wall Street movement at arm’s length appear to be ending, even as Republicans continue to hammer away at the progressive protesters.

For a while, the Democratic establishment appeared to view the protests as something of a crazy relative. But Monday, the party’s House campaign arm made it clear that it stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the movement.

In an email to supporters, Robby Mook, executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, wrote: "Protesters are assembling in New York and around the country to let billionaires, big oil and big bankers know that we’re not going to let the richest 1 percent force draconian economic policies and massive cuts to crucial programs on Main Street Americans."

The missive slapped House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., for using the word "mobs" to describe the protesters.

"That’s what Republicans refer to as the middle class, or maybe the millions of unemployed Americans across the country," Mook wrote.

The email asks the recipient to sign a petition in support of the protests, signifying that a sea change of sorts regarding the establishment view of the movement seems to have occurred in the last few days.

First Vice President Joe Biden and then President Barack Obama signaled they sympathized with the movement. Then, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi gave it a full-on embrace Sunday. "I support the message to the establishment, whether it’s Wall Street or the political establishment and the rest, that change has to happen," she said on ABC’s "This Week." "We cannot continue in a way that does not — that is not relevant to their lives. People are angry."

The endorsement of the movement tracks the newfound emphasis the Democrats are placing on economic inequality as Obama readies a push for his American Jobs Act. Various proposals have been offered by the White House and the Senate involving increasing taxes on wealthier Americans. And in travels across the nation, the president has been eager to place the GOP on the side of big business and billionaires...
Click to expand...

So when the votes are counted, all know where Democrat party leaders stood.
 
Bfgrn said:
He was disrespected. That bearded turd running the show is a moron.
Click to expand...

Maybe B. I haven't watched it. But Damo was right there with the other righties denying that Lewis and others were spit upon and called the n word by teabaggers. He doesn't give a crap about Lewis or any other civil rights hero. And liberals are not monkeys who have to jump through his hypocritical, disingenuous, hoops. I don't play that game with them anymore. I used to, but once I realized that hell could freeze over before they will agree that a con did something wrong, I stopped. If I have something to bitch about, I have people in rl I can discuss it with.
 
brazenhussy said:
Maybe B. I haven't watched it. But Damo was right there with the other righties denying that Lewis and others were spit upon and called the n word by teabaggers. He doesn't give a crap about Lewis or any other civil rights hero. And liberals are not monkeys who have to jump through his hypocritical, disingenuous, hoops. I don't play that game with them anymore. I used to, but once I realized that hell could freeze over before they will agree that a con did something wrong, I stopped. If I have something to bitch about, I have people in rl I can discuss it with.
Click to expand...

Who spit on Lewis and who was the teabagger that used the "n" word?
 
I watched that video. I can't believe America has fallen so far. Very sick stuff. The Department of Education needs to be unplugged.
 
Bfgrn said:
He was disrespected. That bearded turd running the show is a moron.
Click to expand...

Right on!! The 10 minutes the idiot spend rambling about a "consensus" probably would have been sufficient time for Rep. John Lewis to speak. Someone should have taken a consensus to boot his ass off the megaphone.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top