Obama stages Occupy singer at APEC meeting

So Obama and other leaders meet in Hawaii for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit  Sunday, to ease trade barriers on “green” products. Performing at the conference is Hawaiian singer Matthew Swalinkavich, or Makana, singing “Occupy Oloha” protest song for Barack and Michelle Obama. Makana later spoke with CNN about this brave move to promote socialism. Do you see how ridiculous this is? Makana is supposedly singing this song to oppose Obama and corruption in government, yet Obama and his administration have been supporting the movement since day one. Is America blind? Can't you see these stunts are an attempt by the democrats to give the illusion they are not part of the Occupy movement, when in fact they are using it to motivate their base for 2012.  Here is the video of Makana singing Occupy Oloha.




(AFP)
Well done, David Axelrod!

A Hawaiian folk singer played an “Occupy Aloha” protest song at a dinner for world leaders at the APEC Summit.

A popular Hawaiian recording artist turned a top-security dinner of Pacific Rim leaders hosted by President Barack Obama into a subtle protest with a song in support of the “Occupy” movement.

Makana, who goes by one name, was enlisted to play a luau, or Hawaiian feast, Saturday night for leaders assembled in Obama’s birthplace Honolulu for an annual summit that is formulating plans for a Pacific free-trade pact.

But in the midst of the dinner on the resort strip Waikiki Beach, he pulled open his jacket to reveal a T-shirt that read “Occupy with Aloha,” using the Hawaiian word whose various meanings include love and peace. He then sang a marathon version of his new song “We Are The Many.”

“I was pretty nervous. In fact I was terrified. I kept thinking ‘what are the consequences going to be?’” Makana, 33, told AFP.

“It was incredibly comical. I was terrified but also enjoying it,” he said.

Makana, who was born Matthew Swalinkavich, said the song prompted awkward stares from a few of those present but the Obamas appeared too absorbed with their guests to notice what was happening.

The performance occurred at a dinner for summit participants from 21 economies around the Asia-Pacific, including Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, amid a security lockdown in Waikiki.