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"Rush: Chicago Teachers Union Strike Is a Setup, Designed to Benefit Obama Reelection Effort"

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Blogger Joe Kidd said...

Michelle Obama and the Chicago teachers' strike.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151323410460817

Michelle Obama and the Chicago teachers' strike.
http://thelookingspoon.com/index.php/september-2012/3857-teachers-in-chicago-exemplify-the-chicago-spirit-not-the-american-way

9:22 PM

Blogger Troy said...

A setup? Anything's possible, I suppose, but it seems to me teacher's unions might be feeling a little like an ugly date Democratic politicians are embarrassed to acknowledge publicly. Besides, unions are about as easy to lead along as a herd of cats. Harry Truman was forced to go head-to-head with the railroad unions, for example, and it wasn't pretty and it surely wasn't a setup designed to make Truman look good.

Lastly, the Romney campaign--in the person of Paul Ryan--is making all sorts of very public hay over this strike. Every minute the Romney campaign gets to exploit this issue is a plus for the GOP.

So yeah, if Obama descends from the clouds and brokers an instant agreement, sure, it was a setup, but if that was the Machiavellian master plan, he had better do it soon.

9:37 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It seems this would not be a positive for Obama since these are the types of jobs his stimulus ventures propose to create. Their greed and indifference to the fact that there are millions unemployed or under-employed that would love to make a portion of what these union stooges make. And then there is their indifference to the needs of their students.

5:37 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Unfortunately a setup seems likely - that would certainly explain why it is happening in Rahm's town instead of, say, Wisconsin.

I would like to think that it's just a matter of "holy crap, in a few months the party's over so we better get what we can now!" but a few things don't make sense. Maybe in some of the purple-turning-red states, but the party is going to keep going on in Chicago for a long time.

Main thing - it's in Chicago, Obama's home turf. If He could pull off something like this anywhere, it would be there. Then there was the 16% raise that was offered and turned down - most unions would have snapped that up, but making such a good offer gives the unions the ability to put on a show, get "smacked back into line" by the all-powerful Obama (showing His authority, decisiveness, and that He does not cave to the unions), and still end up with a lucrative deal after being "forced" to accept what they were offered. Cap it off with a few nights of national prime-time news stories showing little kids shedding tears of joy at finally being allowed to go to school again because of how wonderful Obama is, and even though it will have been the most "transparent" move made by the most transparent administration in history, most people will probably fall for it.

10:59 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Unfortunately a setup seems likely - that would certainly explain why it is happening in Rahm's town instead of, say, Wisconsin.

I would like to think that it's just a matter of "holy crap, in a few months the party's over so we better get what we can now!" but a few things don't make sense. Maybe in some of the purple-turning-red states, but the party is going to keep going on in Chicago for a long time.

Main thing - it's in Chicago, Obama's home turf. If He could pull off something like this anywhere, it would be there. Then there was the 16% raise that was offered and turned down - most unions would have snapped that up, but making such a good offer gives the unions the ability to put on a show, get "smacked back into line" by the all-powerful Obama (showing His authority, decisiveness, and that He does not cave to the unions), and still end up with a lucrative deal after being "forced" to accept what they were offered. Cap it off with a few nights of national prime-time news stories showing little kids shedding tears of joy at finally being allowed to go to school again because of how wonderful Obama is, and even though it will have been the most "transparent" move made by the most transparent administration in history, most people will probably fall for it.

11:00 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Unfortunately a setup seems likely - that would certainly explain why it is happening in Rahm's town instead of, say, Wisconsin.

I would like to think that it's just a matter of "holy crap, in a few months the party's over so we better get what we can now!" but a few things don't make sense. Maybe in some of the purple-turning-red states, but the party is going to keep going on in Chicago for a long time.

Main thing - it's in Chicago, Obama's home turf. If He could pull off something like this anywhere, it would be there. Then there was the 16% raise that was offered and turned down - most unions would have snapped that up, but making such a good offer gives the unions the ability to put on a show, get "smacked back into line" by the all-powerful Obama (showing His authority, decisiveness, and that He does not cave to the unions), and still end up with a lucrative deal after being "forced" to accept what they were offered. Cap it off with a few nights of national prime-time news stories showing little kids shedding tears of joy at finally being allowed to go to school again because of how wonderful Obama is, and even though it will have been the most "transparent" move made by the most transparent administration in history, most people will probably fall for it.

11:01 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Unfortunately a setup seems likely - that would certainly explain why it is happening in Rahm's town instead of, say, Wisconsin.

I would like to think that it's just a matter of "holy crap, in a few months the party's over so we better get what we can now!" but a few things don't make sense. Maybe in some of the purple-turning-red states, but the party is going to keep going on in Chicago for a long time.

Main thing - it's in Chicago, Obama's home turf. If He could pull off something like this anywhere, it would be there. Then there was the 16% raise that was offered and turned down - most unions would have snapped that up, but making such a good offer gives the unions the ability to put on a show, get "smacked back into line" by the all-powerful Obama (showing His authority, decisiveness, and that He does not cave to the unions), and still end up with a lucrative deal after being "forced" to accept what they were offered. Cap it off with a few nights of national prime-time news stories showing little kids shedding tears of joy at finally being allowed to go to school again because of how wonderful Obama is, and even though it will have been the most "transparent" move made by the most transparent administration in history, most people will probably fall for it.

11:01 AM

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