Be careful what you wish for!

To all the letter writers who are so vociferous in their attacks on President Bush (Robert Green, J. Howard Crews and Jon Monday come to mind), an Obama presidency would be like going from the frying pan into the fire.

A major policy initiative which has not received sufficient attention in the media is the union “card check” scheme, which would do away with the secret ballot elections for union authorization as the bargaining agent at companies. Obama supported the bill in the Senate for the card check and was even listed as a co-sponsor.

With the well-known practice of unions resorting to in...