Referencing a 2007 speech from then-candidate Obama,
If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself, I will 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.
FDL's Michael Monk considers the situation in Wisconsin and asks my Question of the Day:
Well, will we see it? Or will it end up like the closing of Guantanamo Bay, a public option, or restoring constitutional checks and balances? [...] Will he find those shoes?

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