Posted by
JTD on Wednesday, October 08, 2008 11:01:43 AM
Elections often turn on small issues, especially when the pivotal issue is simple, easy to explain and cuts to the heart of core American beliefs. Obama's assault on the secret ballot is a slam dunk winning issue. Lord knows, McCain needs a pivotal issue right now. Why isn't he using the card check bill to bludgeon Obama into submission.
It is time for all of us to force this issue into the spotlight.
The secret ballot is a revered part of our heritage. Everyone understands it, everyone instinctively and intuitively believes that it is sacrosanct. Yet Obama, proving his credentials as a Big Labor shill, backs the card check bill that the unions desparately crave.
The bill -- shamelessly and cynically titled the "Employee Free Choice Act" -- deprives employees of the right to a secret ballot in elections to determine if they will be represented by a union. Apparently, Obama's idea of "free choice" is to allow employees to be browbeaten by union thugs and goons.
Obama strongly supports this bill, but he doesn't want Americans -- other than Big Labor -- to know that. So this powerful and potentially pivotal issue has been ignored by the relentlessly pro-Obama media and, consequently, is unknown to the vast majority of the American electorate. It is time to trumpet this issue.
Fundamentally, this issue is a "two-fer." Not only does it place Obama squarely against a right that the American public holds dear, it definitely proves his slavish devotion to Big Labor. It undeniably shows that he would deny Americans a fundamental right rather than stand up to any of the democrat special interest groups.
The charge must be levied loudly and vehemently, "Obama is opposed to the secret ballot." How can he possible repond? How can he possibly defend his position? Will he say, "No, I am only opposed to the secret ballot in union elections." No one is going to buy that argument. To the average American it's simple, "Keep your damn hands off the secret ballot. Union election or not, leave the secret ballot alone!"
This is a fire storm issue. One that people "get" at the gut level. Any fair minded person will intuitively and immediately recognize the kind of union thuggery implicit in the bill.
This issue is a poweful Obamacide. Time to spray the roaches.
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