The president supports a liberation movement overseas, one in which local labor unions played a key roll.
Meanwhile, labor unions are being crushed here at home and Washington politicians are largely hostile to citizens standing up for their rights.
As Ted Rall put it: If irony were money, we’d all be rich.
Am I talking about Egypt and Wisconsin today? I could be, but I’m not.
Instead I’m talking about events that happened two and three decades ago.