VIDEO: Obama: Occupy Wall St. "Expresses the Frustrations the American People Feel"

[BigBearJohn]

President Obama made his first public comments on the growing Occupy Wall Street protests in a press conference on Thursday. "I think it expresses the frustrations that the American people feel that we had the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, huge collateral damage all throughout the country, all across Main Street, and yet you're still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to fight efforts to crack down on abusive practices that got us into this problem in the first place." He went on, "So yes, I think people are frustrated and the protesters are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works."

Here's the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH99q2CRNZg&feature=player_embedded




SOURCE: http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/10/obama-biden-occupy-wall-street

[peacebird]

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