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Candidate Obama Promised He’d Picket With Workers

Candidate Obama Promised He’d Picket With Workers

March 20, 2011 SVadmin Comments 0 Comment

‘During the 2008 presidential campaign, Sen. Barack Obama told energized and reinvigorated crowds, both small and large, “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 comfortable pair of shoes myself [and] I’ll walk on that picket line with you as president of the United States of America because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner.” ‘

Yeah, right.

Read full article: “President Obama: MIA“

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