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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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1 posted on 04/30/2008 9:32:19 AM PDT by redwill
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To: redwill

“AFL-CIO slams McCain”

Well at least he’s got THAT in his favor...


2 posted on 04/30/2008 9:34:50 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: redwill
Surprise surprise!
The AFL-CIO will support one of the two Marxists rather than a mere liberal for the Presidency.
3 posted on 04/30/2008 9:35:25 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Do we really want Huma answering the White House phone at 3 AM?)
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To: redwill

AFL-CIO doesn’t like McCain?

Maybe he has some more redeeming qualities than I first thought...


4 posted on 04/30/2008 9:35:33 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: redwill

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


5 posted on 04/30/2008 9:39:39 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: redwill

They are right about NAFTA at least.


6 posted on 04/30/2008 9:42:17 AM PDT by XR7
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"The AFL-CIO is... noting that... on the Bush tax cuts, -- are out of sync with the needs and values of working Americans."

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.

7 posted on 04/30/2008 9:43:11 AM PDT by avacado
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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??


8 posted on 04/30/2008 9:51:32 AM PDT by cake_crumb (At the rate Obama's going, his bus'll need a lift kit just to clear all the bodies.)
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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.


11 posted on 04/30/2008 9:56:59 AM PDT by cake_crumb (At the rate Obama's going, his bus'll need a lift kit just to clear all the bodies.)
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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?


13 posted on 04/30/2008 10:07:33 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Please pass the arugula.)
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To: redwill

and the rank and file will vote for McCain in droves rather than B. Hussein Obama.


16 posted on 04/30/2008 10:15:59 AM PDT by Vaquero (" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
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To: redwill

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.


19 posted on 04/30/2008 10:23:53 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: redwill; ASA Vet; Abathar; VanDeKoik; XR7; avacado; Froufrou; popdonnelly; Vaquero; Southack; ...
Related thread: Longshoremen back to their Commie Roots
23 posted on 04/30/2008 10:40:34 AM PDT by cake_crumb (At the rate Obama's going, his bus'll need a lift kit just to clear all the bodies.)
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AFL-CIO slams McCain...

In other news, oceans contain salt...

24 posted on 04/30/2008 10:50:01 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (Just Say Nobama!)
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To: redwill

Cant say I’m surprised, but this is more RAT lies.

The mailer claims that McCain said “Economics is something I never really understood.”

That’s not what he said. They left off the rest of the sentence. He said “Economics is something I never really understood as well as I should.”

He still understands it a lot better than the two RAT candidates who said they will raise the capital gains tax even though that means less revenue.


27 posted on 04/30/2008 11:10:35 AM PDT by freespirited (America's chickens vote Democrat.)
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To: redwill

I’m sure this is the brazillionth time this reply has been posted, but, that’s an endorsement IMHO.


31 posted on 04/30/2008 1:29:48 PM PDT by BJClinton (I will make a fortune when I figure out how to slap someone through standard TCP/IP.)
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To: redwill

“AFL-CIO slams McCain” and the sun came up this morning, what’s the point?


32 posted on 04/30/2008 2:33:58 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatives live in the truth. Liberals live in lies.)
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