Walking the line.

Barack Obama apparently thinks that the way to appeal to the American voter is to state that he will walk a picket line" for union workers. Now this might have had a great and powerful populist reverberation 40 years ago but today? WTF? Almost no one is a member of a union and a large portion of Americans see unions like the UAW as something that is inhibiting jobs in the US and Obama is saying he's going to help the unions protect their jobs. This is so special interest that it's on par with a Republican hopeful saying that he'll shot an abortion doctor. It's just off the pale and while it may garner some dollars in the short term it will help bury him in a national election.