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Obama: Occupy Wall Street "Expresses The Frustrations The American People Feel"
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Jen Chung
Published Oct 6, 2011
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President Obama mentioned the growing Occupy Wall Street movement, which has spread across the country, saying he's been monitoring the protests, "I think it expresses the frustrations the American people feel, that we had the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, huge collateral damage all throughout the country ... and yet you're still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to fight efforts to crack down on the abusive practices that got us into this in the first place."
But do you know who is tired of Occupy Wall Street? Mayor Bloomberg! The billionaire businessman, who last week implied the movement's days at Zuccotti Park were numbered, was overheard calling the protesters and their occupation "ridiculous" at a cocktail party.
Yet the person most outraged by Occupy Wall Street might be Post columnist Andrea Peyser, who headed to Zuccotti Park: "We’re here at the protest epicenter, the planetary point where bitchery meets bellyaching. And it makes no kind of cosmic sense." She complains about protesters with Apple products, "At the periphery sit well-heeled thrill-seekers who’ve traveled from Virginia Beach, Seattle, Ohio and Portland, Ore. Others come from Mars. Like the guy who marched with a sign announcing that he was the 'Fart Smeller.' Say what?"
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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