Democrats’ Embrace of Wall Street Protests Poses Political Peril
Never before has a boisterous campaign of civil disobedience – marked by more than 700 arrests – received the kind of warm welcome from a sitting president and his party that President Obama and leading Democrats have accorded the “Occupy Wall Street” movement.
In the course of a single day last week, Obama, Vice President Biden, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi all voiced, in varying degrees, their support for the anti-corporate demonstrators whose rallies over the last month have spread to 13 cities and drawn more than $60,000 in online donations.
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