I have no question that there are well intended protestor who share many of my own thoughts. But you are a major fool if you think that there aren’t a great many more of those whose agenda trumps your own. You are so well equipted to suspect Republicans but you give a pass on the idea you may have traitors in your own camp.

Peace out!

FYI – I’m a veteran as well, well educated, have no credit card debt nor have I an upside down mortgage. It’s called being responsible and never expecting to live off the government teat.

“Top Down” .- ..rack up a extensive federal debt, bail out Wall Street and intentionally move jobs overseas
“Bottom Up” – Occupy Wall Street
“Inside Out” … economic collapse which is far worse than the Great Depression, possible famine and the begging of government intervention.

This movement is not about supporting Obama. In fact it represents a very serious warning to him. Obama is going to need to adjust to address this movement. Whether he does or not ultimately… is his call. Nothing has been proposed to him or anybody for that matter.

As for the timing, I believe we won’t make it to next year because these protests will overload the system (i.e. Fox-Piven) to where Van Jones’ “Top Down, Bottom Up, Inside Out” will be instill and then the suspension of the Constitution and finally a police state. With the riots and Obama in house, citizens will be preying to have government intervention.

The Tea Party’s promoters and organizing, funding, etc. are too problematic for these people. Their message is corporate greed, not just banks, but oil companies, corps like IBM burying capital in R&D campuses/jobs overseas, etc. too. Further, the Tea Party was overtly Koch (oil money) funded and mostly about cutting taxes, (or extending 2% tax cuts) which translates to social program cuts. Finally much of the messaging was attacking candidate Obama vs. the banks. The occupy people are not dumb. The Tea Party’s was as “grassroots” as Fox is “fair and balanced.

Trust that the media cameras focus on the theatrics and seeking the most fantastical. There’s miles of footage left on cutting room floor that was not interesting but included groups of 10 to 20 people making decisions about march routes, timing, etc. What their public statements will be. Then they send their group’s elected rep to a group of elected reps who hash out the details doing their best to represent their group. There are differing sorts and levels of committees and affinity groups. There is a lot of structure actually. Painful. Slow. Problematic. And extremely intrinsically, organically, democratic.

Huh? You said a lot of stuff in your post, just not sure what your point was. Are you for the radical left wing loons who are occupying Wall Street? If so, why?

I’m not sure of reason for the timing. Probably multi-pronged. Disenchantment with Obama’s progress probably a part of it. (?) The original group of NYC protesters were a dozen deep. It probably just worked out for people’s lives/calendars. (?) Temperatures are not below freezing yet? (?)

Frankly any time period would have fallen into some political cycle somewhere. If this were all about Obama energizing his base for re-election…(which it is clearly not)… it should have been done in August or September next year, in my opinion. Obama has no control over where this is going but it certainly will change the election landscape, probably the entire political landscape for him.

I forgot to mention that I’ve never been arrested. I served my country in the military and received a couple expedited promotions, good behavior medal and honorable discharge at the conclusion of my service term. I have also seriously contemplated in the past couple of days the possibility of allowing myself to be arrested in protesting for the badge of honor it would represent for me. I have spent some days in an Occupy camp. I believe understand what is going on. What is happening is determined organically inside the group. There’s no headquarters sending down directives. If you or anyone else have any intelligent questions of me I will be sincere and genuine in my replies.