Campaigns embracing 'Occupy' themes

[hack89]

It came to prominence when demonstrators vowing to represent the 99 percent condemned corporate malfeasance, lopsided executive salaries and the distribution of wealth from the middle to the top. Four months later, the grievances of Occupy Wall Street have become a pillar of campaigns from Washington, D.C., to San Diego.

The amalgamation of deepening distrust in the American institutions of Washington and Wall Street, the sluggish job and housing markets and the growing prospect that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney may become the Republican presidential nominee has helped thrust tenets of the Occupy movement into the political sphere.

On Thursday, President Barack Obama’s chief economic adviser further indicated that the administration would make central to its re-election efforts the themes of escalating inequality and reforming a system viewed by many as favoring the wealthy. Others carrying the banner range from U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts to House candidate Lori Saldaña of San Diego. Both are Democrats.

“You can see the power in the movement by the fact that Republican presidential candidates are starting to adopt some of its language,” said Roy Behr, a Democratic political consultant. “It puts them in a terrible position of completely invalidating everything they stand for.

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jan/15/election-campaigns-take-on-occupy-themes/

Good read on how Occupy has influenced the election.

[Kalidurga]

1. We can also shamelessly steel some lines from Republicans.

My favorite is from Gingrich. He speaks of vulture capitalism.