Posted on 04/30/2008 9:32:19 AM PDT by redwill
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com
***** By Jennifer Skalka
The AFL-CIO is dropping a tough mailer in PA today noting that while John McCain's war service is admirable, his political views -- on the Bush tax cuts, NAFTA and overtime pay, in particular -- are out of sync with the needs and values of working Americans.
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***** By Jennifer Skalka
The AFL-CIO is dropping a tough mailer in PA today noting that while John McCain's war service is admirable, his political views -- on the Bush tax cuts, NAFTA and overtime pay, in particular -- are out of sync with the needs and values of working Americans.
"John McCain? War hero? Absolutely," the mailer reads. "Voice for working families? No way."
The piece has been sent so far this cycle to more than 400,000 swing voters, notably those much-courted Reagan Democrats living in OH, WI, MI and MN. The mailer features a photo of Jim Wasser, a Navy vet who served with John Kerry in Vietnam and was active in 2004 in countering efforts to muddy the Democratic nominee's war record.
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“AFL-CIO slams McCain”
Well at least he’s got THAT in his favor...
AFL-CIO doesn’t like McCain?
Maybe he has some more redeeming qualities than I first thought...
How would these 20th century dinosaurs know anything about “working people”? They are losing dupes...er members by the thousands every week.
Oh and bang up job on using union “power” to get Obummer over the top in PA! /sarcasm
They are right about NAFTA at least.
Oh good Lord! Do these fools really believe that Bush only gave tax cuts to the rich? The ENTIRE federal income tax rate was reduced and the child credit raised from $500 to $1000 per child.
Idiots! Let the Bush tax cuts expire and watch your paycheck shrink as we go back UP to the year 2000 federal income tax rate.
Don’t you people have a strike to go to, some company you want to drive overseas or some little kid at a GOP rally you need to terrorize??
Yes, I like him better already.
It's hard to pay dues when you force the plant to shut down and your unemployment has run out.
According to Cil. Day, his roomate at teh Hanoi Hilaton, McCain clung to God and the hope that one day he’d be able to pick up a gun again during his stressful time as a guest of the Viet Cong. I can IMAGINE what his thoughts were about his captors, who were “different” from him. According to Obama’s criteria, that quilifies McCain as a voice for the working people.
It’s typical of the AFL-CIO to blame politicians — ANY politician! — for the ‘forcing overseas of American jobs’ when it can’t POSSIBLY be due to overinflated union pay scales, no siree. [/s]
Until there are more tenable ways to reign in corporate greed, AFL-CIO better learn to BOHICA like the rest of us.
Why are these people so against tax cuts? Working class people have gotten tax cuts, too. How are they benefitted by taking more money out of their wallets?
Col. Day, Hanoi Hilton. Today I need an extra port of coffee...
and the rank and file will vote for McCain in droves rather than B. Hussein Obama.
Don’t forget the unbelievable retirement plans they get guaranteed in their contracts due to their threats to thut down the plants.
THUT??? ARGH, argh, argh, argh, argh....
So does the AFL-CIO mailer point out that Hillary fought against Wal-Mart becoming unionized while she served on its Board of Directors?!
...thought not.
I know. My son-in-law is an AFL-CIO working for a GMC affiliate. Our daughter is an insurance collector and always complains how much less she earns for much more difficult work.
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