Considering the Democrats long support of labor movements I’m not completely surprised the candidates for president are refusing to cross the writers’ picket lines, but I’m also a tiny bit surprised.  Who would have thought this varied group of men and women could agree on something, something that could jeopardize their relationship with media moguls who raise a lot of money for them.  However, these media CEOs should know better.  I have to be upfront here: I totally support the writers on this issue.  I’ve done enough research on both sides to know the media companies are blowing smoke when they say it would break them to give writers the cents on the dollar they’re asking for in terms of DVD and Internet residuals, and I think they are on the losing side of this issue.  Missouri is far removed from Hollywood and the vagaries of the entertainment business, but we like to watch our favorite shows and I have been surprised at the number of people I know and work with who are following this mess; and how many of them seem to be on the writers side of this issue.  I guess I shouldn’t be surprised since the little man almost always sides against the big corporation.  When it gets right down to it, the Dem candidates are lot braver than they will ever get credit for by not crossing those pickets lines.  As that fool Sumner Redstone has often said, he votes for the candidate that will help his business, not the candidate that’s better for the country as a whole; and I think most of the media company CEOs are no different, so the Dems may not have that much to lose.