IMHO...
The fact that it was raised and that he's running sends an important message in itself ... that the comfortable days are coming to an end because the people have had enough. This is, logically, what Occupy should have morphed in to, sooner, and stronger.
You know ... personally, I watched, "Sicko," by Michael Moore, and I can't fathom why there wasn't another civil war on the back of that film alone.