the media keeps wondering things like whether the tea party can get behind newt gingrich. but there is no such thing, any longer, as the tea party. when was the last time you saw a small local demonstration with handmade signs and funny hats? instead you have dick armey raising corporate money for right republican candidates. now, occupy, let that be a lesson to you. if you listen to obama's appropriation of your critique and get annexed to the dems, you no longer mean anything.
obviously, even as obama goes all '99%', he raises wall street money; he pumps 'liquidity' into the banking system by the trillions, etc. this is what he could do if he intended to change anything about american politics or our economic inequalities etc: raise money only from small contributions of individuals. remember how impressive his fundraising was along those lines in '08? look at how howard dean or ron paul have raised money to run presidential campaigns. people will say he 'has' to raise corporate money. that is false. and making this move might actually increase his fundraising overall, believe it or not: it would be inspiring. since he doesn't actually put anything at stake in a way that could change the total merger of political and economic power, he doesn't have any credibility when he throws down occupy slogans. he is the system his rhetoric attacks.
