Occupy activists set up camp outside Obama re-election office in Des Moines

[The Northerner]

DES MOINES, Iowa — Occupy Des Moines activists on Saturday vowed to shut down President Barack Obama’s campaign offices and set up a camp outside they plan to maintain around the clock.

“We have every intention to keep this place closed down until we are satisfied,” said Frank Cordaro, an activist and founder of the Catholic Worker group in Des Moines.

A handful of activists went to Obama’s nondescript office in a downtown strip mall after larger rallies to mark the three-month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York. They had hoped to read a statement demanding Obama cut military spending by half and “dismantle our U.S. military empire ... so we can create jobs, balance the budget, meet our peoples’ needs here and help the human community to heal our dying planet.”

When they arrived, they found the doors locked.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/occupy-activists-set-up-camp-outside-obama-re-election-office-in-des-moines/2011/12/17/gIQAHpz70O_story.html

[FarLeftFist]

1. He probably won't be there for a long time. Their message is a worthy one nonetheless.

He'll probably be there some time in mid-June of 2012.

[ProSense]

2. "there is no difference between George Bush and Obama"

Clearly not a smart bunch!

[randome]

4. Especially considering who pulls the purse strings in our government.

That would be Congress, not the President.

[Zalatix]

6. It would NOT be Congress pulling the strings.

It would be the US Chamber of Commerce, the Koch Brothers, the Corporate Elite.

[randome]

8. Then they are even more off-target than I thought.

[Zalatix]

18. Perhaps.

Logically the best move is to target the biggest culprits first.

[Charronxyz]

5. Obama is much better...

at representing the interest of the 1%, Bush made a mess of it.

[FarLeftFist]

7. How did I know you would only have 83 posts. Erick?

[Charronxyz]

9. No Andrew...

Obama still represent the interest of the 1% no matter how many posts I have...

[FarLeftFist]

15. Yes, he represents the 1% and the other 99%. He is President of 100% of the Nation.

[Andy823]

14. Yep,

Pretty obvious isn't it?

[ProSense]

10. Absolute

"Obama is much better...at representing the interest of the 1%, Bush made a mess of it."

...nonsense

First, President Obama’s tax cuts are much more targeted at the middle class. The Bush tax cuts were heavily skewed toward the wealthy with more than half of the entire benefit going only to the richest 20 percent. President Obama’s tax cuts, on the other hand, are distributed more evenly. Eighty-five percent of the benefits of the Making Work Pay tax credit, for example, went to the bottom 80 percent of households, and because the very wealthy don’t pay payroll taxes on all of their income, the payroll tax cut, too, benefits the middle class much more than the Bush tax cuts did.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/09/obama_bush_taxes.html

[emulatorloo]

11. Cmon now. We can't let the facts get in the way of a DU smear job

[Scurrilous]

3. Holy handful!

This is hugh.

[emulatorloo]

12. Why aren't they Occupying Chuck Grassley?

The guy has been marching lock step with McConnell to kill every decent piece of legislation that comes their way.

[T S Justly]

13. Good, I hope they stay until November. K&R (nt)

[BluegrassDem]

16. Stunts like this makes the occupy movement lose credibility

Go occupy Mitt's office...he IS the 1%!

[Wait Wut]

17. Or any of the other multitude of right wing asshats...

...that are actively working towards ruining the country just to kick the black guy out of office.

Bad call, OWS.