President Obama on Thursday called the “Occupy Wall Street” protests a reflection of a “broad-based frustration about how our financial system works” and pledged to continue fighting to protect American consumers.

The president, speaking at a press conference, said he had heard about and seen television reports on the recent protests on Wall Street, and noted that “I think it expresses the frustrations that the American people feel.”

I’ve been hearing that one of the BIG differences between the OWS “movement” and the tea party stuff is that the OWS wouldn’t get mainstreamed into the Dem party. Is that now not true?