Obama extends support for protesters

Financial Times   "On Sunday, Mr Obama honoured Martin Luther King at a dedication to a new memorial on National Mall in Washington. Referring to protests that have spread from Wall Street to London, Rome and elsewhere, Mr Obama said: “Dr King would want us to challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonising those who work there.” Mr Obama had previously said the protests “express the frustration” of ordinary Americans with the financial sector." Via Drudge.

Victor Davis Hanson:  Obama’s Blame Game  "Lastly, there are no consequences for Obama’s blaming his failed economic policy on someone else. The media long ago gave up their role as presidential watchdogs and became invested in Obama’s success." In case you didn't see this the first time around.

 

What I saw at the copycat Wall Street “occupation” in downtown Atlanta.

Mary Grabar  "The Tea Partiers never blocked a street, and left quietly down the sidewalks after their allotted time, leaving no traces, picking up trash that may have been dropped inadvertently.

"The Tea Party never occupied public land illegally. They assembled peacefully with permits arranged beforehand. Yet the media repeatedly characterized them as “angry,” “extremist,” and “racist.”
"The police officers probably welcomed the Tea Party gigs as a respite. In contrast, I can only imagine the indignity of having a punk holding up a camera in your face as you try to protect a hospital from a mob. But the Soros-supported organization, Cop Watch, trains extreme leftists to create or exacerbate conflicts with police and record them in order to make claims of police brutality. These guys seemed to be itching for valuable footage."  Emphasis added. 
 (Heaven help these police officers if they try to enforce Arizona's immigration laws.)

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2011/10/13/92682

HAMAS Reaction to Israel’s Shalit Mega-Terrorist Trade Says It All

debbieschlussel.com  " But HAMAS’ party-like-it’s 1939 reaction is even more telling about what a bad idea this is.  Yet another omen of more kidnapped Israeli soldiers (to ransom for more mass terrorist releases) to come.  (And leave it to the Wall Street Journal’s leftist, anti-Israel Jewish reporter Joshua Mitnick to connect the deal with the “Arab Spring,” something with which the trade has nothing to do, since the trade was in the works long before the first uprisings of the so-called Spring." 

What kind of Treasury Secretary becomes a partisan political tool?

Ed Lasky  "Geithner says "actions against Wall Street" coming. "Stay tuned." Wonderful timing when the pillars of finance are under strain already from Durbin-Frank, EU financial turmoil, poor economic conditions in America, and more.
"Now they have another problem to worry about, another level of uncertainty: a federal government determined to whack them repeatedly for political purposes."

Look what the leftist blogs are saying about Obama

FireDogLake  via Althouse.  Here is a representative sample of the comments in this blog. Go there yourself to see how the left is beginning to look at Mr. Obama.
One caveat: the liberals are not now and never will be coming to the realization that their economic philosophies are bankrupt. They are angry at Obama because he isn't leftist enough for them, so don't think conservatives have new allies. TD

"I agree. I actually think he is probably a decent human being who made the (common) mistake of thinking he was more talented than he actually is in the game he chose to play. He’s not so stupid to miss the hand-writing on the wall. He knows very well that he can’t beat Romney in a head-to-head election. Why have the substitute when you can get the real thing? And he knows he has forfeited the respect of people like us, who are more numerous than the MSM and his advisors want to believe. Our little segment of that large group is noisier, but behind us are millions of lurkers. He must be seeing the private polls showing disaster in Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania, not to mention serious declines in New York and California where it won’t affect his electoral prospects but must certainly hit him in his pride where it hurts.

He’s got a big decision to make within three and a half months: whether to pull out or stay in. He needs some good news to stay in, and it’s not coming".

And this one:

"It is said that many Americans think that Barack Obama is a nice guy.

Barack Obama is not a nice guy, and the American people may soon realize that he is not a nice guy.

“Underdog” Obama clearly does not want a second term as President"....

One for the road:

"One more knife in the back for the working men and women of the country. This abomination of a president must be removed from office. He is ruining our country."