Barack Obama, Scott Walker spar in Labor Day comments

[riversedge]

Source: Madison.com



Barack Obama, Scott Walker spar in Labor Day comments

State Journal staff 2 hrs ago 4

President Barack Obama didn’t mention Gov. Scott Walker or any of the other 2016 GOP presidential candidates by name during a Labor Day speech at a union rally in Boston on Monday, but the target of at least one barb was clear.

The president, invoking a number of Republican hopefuls’ policies to challenge claims that they care about workers, remarked incredulously that one GOP candidate had “said busting unions prepared him to fight ISIL,” an acronym for the Islamic State group.

Walker said earlier this year that facing 100,000 protesters at the state Capitol over his collective bargaining changes — which greatly curtailed public worker unions’ clout — prepares him to confront the terrorist threat posed by the Islamic State. He also signed a right-to-work law banning labor contracts that make it mandatory for workers to pay union fees.

Walker, while campaigning in New Hampshire on Monday, addressed the president’s comments, defending the collective bargaining overhaul as good for taxpayers and right-to-work as good for workers.

“This is not unexpected. I think the president and his allies fear us more than anybody else in this race because they know we don’t just talk about it, we get it done,” Walker said, according to his campaign.



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President Obama on Scott Walker's claim that opposing union rights prepped him to battle ISIS: "I didn't make that up. That's what he said."
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[riversedge]

3. yup.

sorry but forgot to insert that title.

[riversedge]

2. scooter tweets and gets a response...

Scott Walker ‏@ScottWalker 11h11 hours ago

.@BarackObama is worried because I don't just talk, I get things done. If I can do it in blue state, I can do it in Washington -SW
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Response:
TKDMike retweeted
Not backing down ‏@Pie_SocialMedia 8h8 hours ago

.@ScottWalker @BarackObama #walker is the most divisive politician our country has seen. Saying POTUS is scared of you is childish. #dropout



11:17 PM - 7 Sep 2015 · Details

[Fred Sanders]

4. And going to a military themed prep school preps you for the Presidency! Why do Americans

put up with this subterranean level of stupid and insanity??? This kind of wall to wall stupid IS insanity all on it's own!

Election after election, endless campaign after endless campaign, the serious business of electing the leader of the free world is turning into a freak show that is freaking out the free world.

We have seen this kind of xenophobia and insanity in a militarized nation before.

[rladdi]

5. Gov. Walker is just a puppet of big interests. He really has no balls. He will support anything

that big money wants him too. The people of WISC are crazy to have elected him to so many offices.

[tabasco]

6. That's like Leon Spinks sparring with my grandma

and Walker playing the part of my grandma.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Their campaign days may be past

but can the GOP deliver firepower on the
campaign trail that equals Bill Clinton and Barack Obama?

And they hopefully will be around for at least a generation or more!