Occupy Wall Street: More Signs of President Obama’s Re-election Campaign Strategy

From Washington Post (bold emphasis mine)

Labor groups are mobilizing to provide office space, meeting rooms, photocopying services, legal help, food and other necessities to the protesters. The support is lending some institutional heft to a movement that has prided itself on its freewheeling, non-
institutional character.

And in return, Occupy activists are pitching in to help unions ratchet up action against several New York firms involved in labor disputes with workers…

The coordination represents a new chapter for the anti-Wall Street activists, who have expressed anger at establishment forces in both major political parties and eschewed the traditional grass-roots organizing tactics long deployed by labor unions.

It also suggests an evolution for organized labor, which retains close ties to President Obama and the Democratic Party but sees the Occupy protests as a galvanizing moment. Some union officials concede that their efforts to highlight income inequality and other economic concerns have fallen short, scoring few victories with a White House that many on the left see as too close with Wall Street.

President Obama’s job approval rating hits NEW record lows

From Gallup

This seems to validate polls which shows that the theme espoused by the ‘noisy minority’ have not been supported by the general public.

Such gimmickry seem as telltale signs that for the Obama administration, desperate times calls for desperate measures