OBAMA ATTACKS: Labor

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0108/7652.html

Obama-labor relationship tense in Iowa

By: Ben Smith
Jan 1, 2008 10:18 AM EST
Barack Obama
Candidate offends Dem backers by calling their support a "flood of Washington money" in tight Iowa race.

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Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign manager has spent the final days of the Iowa campaign railing against “big interests” that have poured a “flood of Washington money” into the state in “underhanded” efforts to support his rivals.

But more than three quarters of that money has come from a pillar of the Democratic Party: labor unions.

And top union officials who support Obama’s rivals are in turn accusing the Illinois Democrat, who once sought their endorsements, of trying to damage labor’s political role.

“I’m taken aback that somebody like Obama would think that Oprah Winfrey has a greater right to participate in the political process than the four million people I represent,” said Edward J. McElroy, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, which has spent $799,619 on Sen. Hillary Clinton’s behalf, referring to the television host’s high-profile support for Obama. “It’s sour grapes. It sounds just like the charges the Republicans make.”

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Happy trails...and bundle up. It's 9°F in Des Moines.

shit attacks on Obama. I'm beginning to wonder just what it is about him that has you on such a full bore hater tilt.

but every now and then he levels attacks on the other Dem candidates. We're not the enemy. Repugs are tearing the world apart.

Why is he dissing Gore? His health care policy, which is an extension on the existing ineffective and downright horrible health care policy is also suspect.

does Obama's campaign ever to anything original and not RNC authored?

is OK. But other organizations who feel Obama is the worst possible choice for this country are ALL wrong. Damn what a bunch of whinny pants messers. ""Everybody should choose him, if they dont' it's wrong. boo hoo boo hoo...."" can they cry any more.

Maybe even a journal.

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Well, me and about 480,000 other people...

and its not Obama we support. I like Hillary, Bill Richardson, Dodd, Biden, Edwards, Obama in that order. Richardson, Dodd and Biden don't have a real shot so its more like Clinton, Edwards and Obama a very distant third.

And true when you think about it: why should Oprah have more say then union members?

The AFSCME ad, through 527s endorsing Hillary, attack Obama's mandate-less health care plan even though the president of AFSCME is on record being against mandates.

The American Federation of Teachers use mailers and ads for Hillary. Good for them... As for McElroy's kneejerk Hillbottism that it "sounds just like the charges the Republicans make", that's an old trick. Nowhere has the Obama campaign said that people can't participate in the election process.

Obama simply is swatting back at the 527 slimebags that think that lying about him is an OK thing to do.

last 8 rallies. :eyes:

Very insightful. :eyes:

lol. Democrats who don't want to win, want Obama. These are the numbskulls who lose every election.

Edwards is the one who will have turned off the Democratic Congress.