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"I could really care less about Obama," the lifelong Democrat says in an article written by Mike Elk on the In These Times website before criticizing the president as "a jerk, a pantywaist, a lightweight, a blowhard. He hasn’t done a goddamn thing that he said he would do,"
Box’s refusal to cast a ballot for Obama shows the challenges organized labor faces in convincing its members to vote for Democrats. Many union members like Box feel the party hasn’t pushed hard enough for jobs bills or labor law reform while making sure to pass trade pacts, like the South Korea Free Trade Agreement, which the AFL-CIO and United Steelworkers opposed. On top of that, the Democrats chose to hold their convention in North Carolina, a right-to-work state that Obama narrowly carried in 2008, adding insult to injury.