Mitt Romney, Republican presidential candidate 9. Russ Feingold,įormer Democratic senator 8.
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Signs taped to the windows on the eighth floor of Chicago’s Board Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve 4.
“I’m very, very understanding of where they’re coming from.” “What they’re trying to do is take away the jobs of people working in the city, take away the tax base that we have.”ġ0. “I think it’s dangerous, this class warfare.”ĩ. By the time this is over, it will make the Tea Party look like … a tea party.”Ĩ. “This is like the Tea Party - only it’s real. It’s young, it’s spontaneous, it’s focused and it’s going to be effective.”ħ.
“Don’t blame Wall Street, don’t blame the big banks, if you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself!”Ħ. “They blame, with some justification, the problems in the financial sector for getting us into this mess, and they’re dissatisfied with the policy response here in Washington. “I think it expresses the frustration the American people feel.”ģ. “I for one am increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying Wall Street and the other cities across the country.”Ģ. Want to know who said what this week about the protests? Here’s a little Occupy Wall Street quiz.ġ. In the past few days, they have stepped up and made their views known. Thus it has become a matter that politicians, including several presidential candidates, and public figures of all speciesĬould no longer ignore. Its relentless nature, and in this case seems to have dragged an elephant into the room. The honey badger, as you may know, is known for Last week, amid loud complaints that the Occupy Wall Street protests were being unfairly ignored by the media and the nation’s politicians, the media and the nation’s politicians started paying attention.Īnd so the gnat-like media buzz of late September quickly became the barking dog of October, and now - well the whole thing has gone completely honey badger. Clockwise from top left: Barack Obama, Eric Cantor, Russ Feingold, Mitt Romney, Michael Bloomberg, Ben Bernanke, Nancy Pelosi and Herman Cain.Īll of a sudden everybody’s got an opinion. Politicians came out in droves to comment on the Wall Street protests.
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