Tue Jan 24, 2012, 04:42 PM

What about an Occupy Wall Street protester joining the First Lady at the SOTU address tonight?

Somebody brought this up on another thread and I thought it was a great idea and a fantastic gesture.

Make no mistake about it, 2011 was the year of Occupy Wall Street and fighting back against the 1%. What better way to honor OWS than to have a protester, representing the 99%, sitting with the first lady?

Thoughts?

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10 replies	Author	Time	Post
What about an Occupy Wall Street protester joining the First Lady at the SOTU address tonight? (Original post)	Cali_Democrat	Jan 2012	OP
He's already there...been sleeping under the chairs since October.	Atman	Jan 2012	#1
Forget it - nt	badtoworse	Jan 2012	#8
Dream on.	truebrit71	Jan 2012	#2
Bwaaaahahahaha!	progressoid	Jan 2012	#3
Would that be seen as an endorsement of Obama?	immoderate	Jan 2012	#4
I was thinking more along the lines of Obama coming closer to the OWS movement	Cali_Democrat	Jan 2012	#10
Not a good idea for the president or OWS	RZM	Jan 2012	#5
Obama has already	unionworks	Jan 2012	#6
I think he has, but in a very subtle manner	RZM	Jan 2012	#7
Can we airbrush her and just call her "The Protestor"?	cthulu2016	Jan 2012	#9

Response to Cali_Democrat (Original post)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 04:44 PM

Atman (26,044 posts)

1. He's already there...been sleeping under the chairs since October.

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Response to Atman (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 05:18 PM

badtoworse (3,194 posts)

8. Forget it - nt

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Response to Cali_Democrat (Original post)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 04:53 PM

truebrit71 (16,875 posts)

2. Dream on.

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Response to Cali_Democrat (Original post)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 04:54 PM

progressoid (27,267 posts)

3. Bwaaaahahahaha!

Never gonna happen. The WH can't be seen associating with those hippie rabble rousers! Larry Summers and his buddies wouldn't allow it.

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Response to Cali_Democrat (Original post)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 05:00 PM

immoderate (16,449 posts)

4. Would that be seen as an endorsement of Obama?

--imm

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Response to immoderate (Reply #4)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 05:22 PM

Cali_Democrat (14,656 posts)

10. I was thinking more along the lines of Obama coming closer to the OWS movement

Also, it would piss off the Republicans.

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Response to Cali_Democrat (Original post)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 05:04 PM

RZM (8,295 posts)

5. Not a good idea for the president or OWS

OWS would then be tarred with the partisan brush. And OWS isn't nearly popular enough that direct association with it could help Obama. If it were, he and everybody else would have been falling all over themselves to embrace it.

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Response to RZM (Reply #5)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 05:07 PM

unionworks (3,574 posts)

6. Obama has already

made references very similar to Occupys message of "the 1%" and economic disparity, if I'm not mistaken.

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Response to unionworks (Reply #6)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 05:16 PM

RZM (8,295 posts)

7. I think he has, but in a very subtle manner

Just enough to act like he might be on their side, but not enough for anybody to think actually supports the movement. Inviting a protester to the State of the Union would be anything but subtle.

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Response to Cali_Democrat (Original post)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 05:20 PM

cthulu2016 (7,946 posts)

9. Can we airbrush her and just call her "The Protestor"?

Wouldn't want any controversy

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