Barack Obama,  Occupy Wall Street,  President 2012

President 2012: Obama on Occupy Wall Street Protests – “We Are on Their Side”



How about being on the American people’s side, Mr President?

In an interview that will be aired tonight on ABC News, President Obama continues to express his commitment to the Occupy Wall Street protesters.

“The most important thing we can do right now is those of us in leadership letting people know that we understand their struggles and we are on their side, and that we want to set up a system in which hard work, responsibility, doing what you’re supposed to do, is rewarded,” Obama tells ABC News. “And that people who are irresponsible, who are reckless, who don’t feel a sense of obligation to their communities and their companies and their workers that those folks aren’t rewarded.”

The president also compares the protesters to the Tea Party. “In some ways, they’re not that different from some of the protests that we saw coming from the Tea Party,” Obama says. “Both on the left and the right, I think people feel separated from their government. They feel that their institutions aren’t looking out for them.”

But it wasn’t too long ago that President Obama openly mocked the Tea Party movement…..

President Obama needs to address America’s problems and stop campaigning.

American voters are not buying his spin which is dividing America for the sole purpose of his re-election.