OpEdNews - Diary: Excuse me, Mr. Obama, how can we vote for you when you are breaking War Powers Act?

Is it time for President Obama to get on his marching shoes in support of labor and unemployed Americans? Is it time for him to pull troops out of endless wars and occupations with no real endgames? Of course, it is. Why does he expect progressives to support him in 2012 otherwise?

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As many readers know, Barack Obama, decided to use this past weekend--the one weekend we usually recall the assasination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and his opposition to war over aid and development to the indigent

--to state he was running for re-election.

Today, April 5, I have to join millions of progressives who are asking, "Why do you expect us to support you in 2012?"

Here was the news from yesterday, April 4, 2011, that lead me to feel bewildered. (Yesterday was a day to call out protest and commemorance as recognition of MLK's life and death.)

"National Unemployment Rate Falls as People Leave Labor Force

The U.S. official unemployment rate decreased slightly last month to 8.8 percent as the U.S. economy added 216,000 jobs. While the Obama administration praised the new job numbers, many economists point out that the recent drop in the unemployment rate is largely due to people leaving the labor force. Over the past 18 months, the unemployment rate has fallen from 10.1 percent to 8.8 percent. But during that same period, the labor force participation ratio, which measures the share of the U.S. population that has a job, has not changed."

I, for example, have had to leave the American labor force and accept work abroad over the past year--i.e. here in Taiwan.

Last Friday, Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, kicked off the mobilization and commemoration weekend by going on Democracy Now, and asking again "why he thinks President Obama may have committed an 'impeachable offense' by committing U.S. military forces to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya without congressional approval. 'This president has assumed power that no president, not even President Bush, has assumed,' Kucinich says. 'I think that we need to focus on this, not as a matter of whether we like President Obama or not, not as a matter of whether we are Democrats or not, but whether or not we understand the basic constitutional principles of the separation of power.'"

That particular interview on DN focused on this Obama-led fiasco in North Africa--another war that seems to have been started without a clear end game--and without obeying the ground rules that Congress set-down after Vietnam to stop presidents from sending police actions to all corners of the world without proper American constitutional support. Kucinich followed that interview by discussing Obama's absence in supporting the labor movement that helped put him into office in 2008.

Obama had promised at the time when he was still USA Senator that "if any collective bargaining rights were threatened, he'd have his shoes on marching with them in the streets?"

Kucinich noted that Obama hsn't found his marching shoes.

Perhaps, just as with ex-President Bush, we need to start throwing shoes at our president to knock some sense into him and his politics for 2012.