We're waiting to see whether
President Obama cites the anti-Wall Street protesters during his bus trip through North Carolina and Virginia.
And how much the Wall Street protesters cite Obama.
A group called Occupy Greensboro --modeled after the Occupy Wall Street protests -- seeks a meeting with Obama and may picket the hotel where the president plans to spend the night, reports the Greensboro News & Record.
The newspaper says, "The group voted to ask Obama to meet tonight with some members -- a delegation bearing letters of 'individual grievances.'"
"We wished to invite you to visit with our assembly and hear why the people gathered here are upset with our government," the letter said.
White House spokesman Jay Carney declined to say whether Obama would address the Wall Street protests, but he said the president understands the frustrations behind the demonstrations.
"One, the frustrations that regular folks --middle-class Americans -- feel about the state of the economy, the need for growth to improve, and certainly the need for job creation to improve," Carney said.
"And,' he said, "there is a related frustration that a lot of Americans feel about the idea that Wall Street in the past played by different rules than Main Street."
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