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(99,714 posts) Tue Feb 16, 2016, 02:41 PM Feb 2016

Obama never made good on his comfy shoes on the picket line pledge

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After looking at a few pictures, I believe this man would put on a comfy sweater and walk the picket line or sit in the sit down strike!

Allysha Almada speaks at a 2015 rally alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders. (NNU / Flickr)

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entr...still-fighting

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Liberals call on Obama to fulfill campaign promise, walk with Wisconsin union protesters Go Vols Feb 2016 #1

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1. Liberals call on Obama to fulfill campaign promise, walk with Wisconsin union protesters

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Tue Feb 16, 2016, 02:55 PM

Feb 2016

Back in 2007, then-Sen. Barack Obama said that if he were president, he'd be walking the picket lines in solidarity with workers if unions were ever threatened. Now, the president has that chance in Wisconsin, but the White House says President Obama has no such plans.

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."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/liberals-call-on-obama-to-fulfill-campaign-promise-walk-with-wisconsin-union-protesters/

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