President Obama's Disingenuous Attack on Outsourcing

[Tom Rinaldo]

35. I was and am a strong supporter of OWS

OWS did a damn good job getting heard in a non election year. Actually i think policy is more easily leveraged at almost any time other than during the full heat of a Presidential campaign. The peak campaign season is mostly about spin and messaging, and throwing the other "guy" off message. The question is always which team will break stride. Policy is not being made now - there is too much else the political class must concentrate on Behind the scene political alliances that may drive future policy might be being formed now - but the public debate has little to do with that.

OWS did a magnificent job driving the public debate in 2011. I think that OWS cleared a way for Obama to follow up in his campaign message along some of the lines that OWS laid out. Outsourcing and its implications for workers IS being widely discussed, and people ARE being educated as a result. I think our job now is to sharpen, support and amplify the attack lines against Romney that Obama employs. They serve progressive interests.