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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

OWS Not Fond Of Obama

I guess I'm not the only one who doesn't care for Republican Light


In an interview with Salon following a conference call announcing the endorsement, SEIU president Mary Kay Henry stressed the union will not try to enlist occupiers as ground troops for Obama’s reelection — but SEIU also plans to stay involved with the Occupy movement into 2012.
In the six weeks I’ve been covering the movement in New York, the vast majority of protesters I’ve encountered are fed up with two-party politics; feelings about Obama range from indifference to disappointment to deep resentment. Pro-Obama signs occasionally appear at Zuccotti Park, but they are exceedingly rare. I asked Henry if, given occupiers’ views about Obama, she has trouble reconciling SEIU’s support for Obama and Occupy.
“Not at all,” she said. “I think what Occupy Wall Street has done for us is [to] help define the problem, shine a light on the inequality. I think our obligation as SEIU is to make the case to our members and the broader public about how that problem gets solved.” One of those ways, Henry said, is getting involved in electoral politics by endorsing Obama.
People feel sold out by all of our politicians, as they should.  The only way to fix this situation is to get money out of the Mafia political system or buy them off ourselves.

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