My memory fails in part, but I DO seem to recall that there was talk at the time that Obama managed to go to Chicago, but couldn’t find time to go to WI when it would have helped the unions. Or that he made a cameo appearance at best? He wasn’t there for them, that’s for sure.
I won’t be in the least surprised if R/R carry WI. At this point, little will surprise, it’s become fairly volatile, and all at this point moving in R/R’s direction.
Liberals call on Obama to fulfill campaign promise, walk with Wisconsin union protesters
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20036133-503544.html
Wisconsin Protests: Labor Protesters Call On Obama To Join Them In Madison
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/18/wisconsin-protesters-call-on-obama_n_825361.html
On the campaign trail in 2007, Mr. Obama had this to say: “If American workers are being denied their right to organize when I’m in the White House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes and I will walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States.”
“He owes it to us,” said Kathie Free, a retired Milwaukee public school social worker. “Obama was not put into office just by the big money. He was put into office by millions of poor and middle-class people who walk the neighborhoods, talking to neighbors, getting the votes, and that’s how Obama got in, and he has to start remember how he got in. He’d better start working for the middle class and poor people.”
OBAMA LIED AND THE WISCONSIN PUBLIC UNIONS DIED