February 10, 2012

John McCain’s 08 Campaign Manager Concedes: Occupy Wall Street Could Seriously Impact 2012 Race

Posted at 3:59 pm by Lee Fang

While President Obama and his campaign allies have now embraced big money politics as their savior in the 2012 election, a surprising voice argues that the people-powered Occupy Wall Street has the most potential to disrupt the race. At a talk last month in Washington DC, veteran Republican campaign operative Steve Schmidt, who managed John McCain’s campaign in 2008 and now works at the public relations firm Edelman, said that the Occupy Wall Street movement could be a consequential factor in the election this year:

The Occupy movement has already resulted in a renewed interest in ethics reform, a media dialogue about income inequality, and enjoys wide support among most demographic groups. Nonetheless, politicians from both sides of the aisle seem determined to eschew movement politics, whether from true grassroots Tea Party members to Occupy, and embrace high price consultants and million dollar campaign contributions

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Dsteele13

Until we Occupy Media in order to bring attention to their failure to provide public awareness to movement aimed at removing the influence of money from our nation’s politics this movement, though being endorsed by a small but growing number of members of Congress, The Senate and noted citizens, has no chance. 99% of media, that familiar number today, fails to carry the message of these folks to the people.
The makeup of today’s media ownership, not coincidentally, also owns entities in financial, aviation, rail, healthcare, transportation, lighting, security, energy, etc. and they wish to continue opportunity to use campaign funding to influence government actions in spite of fact that many of the serious problems we face today can be traced to government actions inspired by powerful campaign contributors.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=689913316 B Cayenne Bird

The candidate most popular with OWS is Dr. Jill Stein because she understands that the government is the corporations. There is no distinction between the two. Every lawmaker is owned by corporations, every presidential candidate of the two major parties, owned by big companies. Stein has 305,000 supporters IN ADDITION to OWS because Wall Street doesn’t own her. People seem to finally realize that they are the ones that get behind the candidates with dollars and voting groups that are not paid for by law enforcement labor unions or billionaires. There are 193 in elected office now, the Green Party’s time has come.

YellowDog

“The candidate most popular with OWS is …” Without numbers that is just an opinion.

The parties are identical in every respect with the exceptions of union rights, environmental protections, the top tax rate, coal fired power plants, green energy investment, a woman’s right to choose, the minimum wage, social security privatization, public unions, gay marriage, medicare privatization, unemployment benefits extensions, child labor laws, affirmative action, access to healthcare for the poor, tax cuts for the working class, workplace safety, workplace discrimination, foreign policy, access to birth control, citizens united, voter suppression, global warming, evolution and a few other issues.

If you need me to point out the difference on ANY OF THESE issues I will gladly do so.

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