What about an Occupy Wall Street protester joining the First Lady at the SOTU address tonight?

[Cali_Democrat]

Somebody brought this up on another thread and I thought it was a great idea and a fantastic gesture.

Make no mistake about it, 2011 was the year of Occupy Wall Street and fighting back against the 1%. What better way to honor OWS than to have a protester, representing the 99%, sitting with the first lady?

Thoughts?

[Atman]

1. He's already there...been sleeping under the chairs since October.

[badtoworse]

8. Forget it - nt

[truebrit71]

2. Dream on.

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[progressoid]

3. Bwaaaahahahaha!

Never gonna happen. The WH can't be seen associating with those hippie rabble rousers! Larry Summers and his buddies wouldn't allow it.

[immoderate]

4. Would that be seen as an endorsement of Obama?

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[Cali_Democrat]

10. I was thinking more along the lines of Obama coming closer to the OWS movement

Also, it would piss off the Republicans.

[RZM]

5. Not a good idea for the president or OWS

OWS would then be tarred with the partisan brush. And OWS isn't nearly popular enough that direct association with it could help Obama. If it were, he and everybody else would have been falling all over themselves to embrace it.

[unionworks]

6. Obama has already

made references very similar to Occupys message of "the 1%" and economic disparity, if I'm not mistaken.

[RZM]

7. I think he has, but in a very subtle manner

Just enough to act like he might be on their side, but not enough for anybody to think actually supports the movement. Inviting a protester to the State of the Union would be anything but subtle.

[cthulu2016]

9. Can we airbrush her and just call her "The Protestor"?

Wouldn't want any controversy