Mr. President, it's time to find your comfortable shoes [View All]

[nashville_brook]

"Understand this, if American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I'll put on a pair of comfortable shoes myself and I'll walk on that picket line with you as the President of the United States of America because workers deserve to know when someone is standing in their corner."

Mr. President, you were absolutely correct when you said that workers deserve to know when someone is in their corner. So, are you...in our corner?

Tonight the GOP in Wisconsin made a naked undemocratic power grab to deny unions the right to organize and collectively bargain. We need someone in our corner, NOW, Mr. President. We need leadership. It's not hyperbole that we're heading to the mid-1800's with regard to labor relations in this country. Are you going to sit idly by while corporate powers completely annihilate American workers?

Did you actually mean what you said in South Carolina in 2007 -- you know, about grabbing your comfortable shoes and walking the picket line "as the President of the United States of America"? Or, was that just so much campaign puffery? We actually need you. Right now. We don't need triangulation. We don't need to hear about how you're polling with the Chamber of Commerce crowd. We need action.

We need that person in our corner. We deserve that person in our corner.

We're asking you right now, do you stand with us, Mr. President?