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This post might also have been titled “A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words of Speechifying by Barack Obama.” In any case, the picture was posted by my colleague James Simpson over at the Examiner. In his article, James writes about a scheme to bus in SEIU street activists recently to shore up Martha Coakley’s flagging campaign. As the picture reveals, not all members of the union are on board with the Democrat.

The bigger question, though, is what this says about their commitment to Obama, who in one of his most blatantly corrupt payback arrangements to date gave the unions a special exemption from having to pay tax on Cadillac plans in the event his abysmal excuse for health care reform became law. Is this how union members are paying him back? Not that I have any problem with it, understand. I’m just attempting to clarify their position.

As for the value of Obama going to Masschusetts to stump for Coakley, the latest poll results — dubious though the polling organizations may be — are as follows:

PJM/CrossTarget, a Republican polling outfit, has Brown up by 10, with 52 percent of the voter share to Coakley’s 42. Nor does it get much better for Coakley with PPP, a Democrat polling group, which has Brown at 51 percent and Coakley 46 percent, a 5-point advantage for Brown.

I realize these results do not in all likelihood take Obama’s push this weekend into account, but maybe that’s all for the good where he is concerned. He long ago spent the last of his political capital and is now trading on borrowed time. Which is perhaps why SEIU members see no problem in taking the opposing viewpoint to his in an election where he has much to lose.

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