Ed just continues to go over the top.

[elias49]

He'd make a great union boss himself. Not so much a news commentator.
It's as though he wants Obama to shoulder through some crowd of angry people, grab a bull-horn, and do a pep rally. That kind of thing hasn't happened - getting into the mosh pit - since the early 60's.
RIP JFK

[FreakinDJ]

1. Oh IC - now Ed is Bad because he called out Obama

DNC Corporatist have no shame

[elias49]

7. That's not what I'm saying!

I don't have a problem with what he's saying. It's the way he says it. And I see him being that kind of newsman on lots of issues. Non-Obama issues.
He's like a junkyard dog.

[FreakinDJ]

17. Yep he talks like a hard working Beer drinking Good Ol' Boy

We need a Democratic voice that appeals to that audience BIG Time

Gawd knows this DNC Corporatist , Free Trade, Let's ship all those pesky manufacturing Jobs off to China voice sure doesn't appeal to me

[bbgrunt]

2. Ed has led the charge to make this fight national and he

has been a bulldog. That is why he deserves praise--even if you don't like his style.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. So a little leadership is off the top?

By the way... OTHER presidents have actually GONE THERE. But I am sure you did NOT know that.

Oh and he is a commentator... that is his shtick. I think it bothers people like you to call this POTUS for his lack of leadership.

[elias49]

10. I'm saying that what Ed wants is simply unrealistic for the Prez

JFK died because he had balls.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. So a democrat should go lick somebody else's balls?

Look the President, regardless of party, is in the literal line of fire the day they take the oath. Time for THIS president to stand with WE the people...

[senseandsensibility]

4. unrec

Your post is over the top.

[mitchtv]

5. good for Ed

video doesn't lie, Maybe Obama. did unrec

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Unrec. Divisive. n/t

[AsahinaKimi]

8. Ed is on FIRE tonight

Flame on! (oh, and UNREC..to the OP)

[rurallib]

9. Where is the democratic leadership when their base is getting fucked?

Go Ed. make 'em stand up

[scarletwoman]

18. The Working Class isn't the Dem base anymore. The divorce happened in the mid-90s.

The national Dem leadership is just embarrassed by Labor, they'd rather she'd just go away quietly. They're after that shiny corporate/Wall Street trophy wife.

sw

[WillyT]

11. Um... All Ed Is Asking, Is For Obama To Keep His Word

"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."

-- Barack Obama, quoted by Slate, while making a campaign speech in 2007.

:shrug:

[av8rdave]

12. "union boss". Another right wing negative, misleading label

Right up there with "Democrat party" and "tree hugger"

[eleny]

13. He could act like he gave a shit by offering words of encouragement from the White House bunker

You know - act presidential toward the people who worked to put him there.

[Jackpine Radical]

15. I'm sorry. He's been busy this week

getting introduced to small businessmen in Ohio by Gov. Kasich & all.

[eleny]

20. What was I thinking

[Oilwellian]

14. You make the protesters sound like a mob

Nothing could be further from the truth. Nice try though.

[mfcorey1]

19. ITA