Posted on 08/02/2012 12:32:35 AM PDT by Zakeet
President Barack Obama made history in his 2008 election victory as the first black U.S. president, but he risks achieving another, less welcome, first if he wins again in November.
Obama is on course to become the candidate with the lowest support from white male working class voters to win a U.S. election if he triumphs over Republican Mitt Romney on November 6.
Polls show support for Obama from white males without college degrees at under 30 percent, well below the 39 percent he had when he defeated Republican John McCain four years ago. While he has overwhelming support from Hispanics and blacks and does well among women, the Democratic president needs to shore up his backing among those men.
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A quarter of AFL-CIO members did not vote for Obama in 2008.
"Some of this I think was pure racism," said Trumka. "Some of them would be gun owners, some of them would be right-wing. Some of them would be ... died-in-the-wool Republicans."
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
And remember Dickie ... hauling illegals to the polls, tearing down my opponent's yard signs, keying cars carrying his bumper stickers, $200 million or so in cash "donated" by your members, millions of man hours of "donated" labor by your members, and intimidating thousands of voters is not enough. You've promised to ferret out all the right wing racist gun owning Crackers in your organization who don't vote for me ... and bust their kneecaps!
Well Obama’s worst night mare is that Conservative Males are not Bigots. We are voting against him for his track record, not his skin color.
Besides, last I heard, Obama is only 10% Blacks. He is 50% white and 40% Arab.
Where I work paying union dues is voluntary. It’s because of this type of BS I opted out of having dues deducted from my pay for as long as I’ve been there.
His worst nightmare is that blacks, Hispanics, and women are ALL worse off than 4 years ago; they have no reason to rally. Obama disappointed all, with the possible exception of sexual deviants; his tenure will be remembered for the class and race warfare he promoted, as well as the horrible socialist-style economy - nothing positive about the first “black” president.
R.Trumpka is a self-avowed communist. His union members most likely are not.
We Americans are an individualistic group. Lots of union members in my family, and all were loyal patriots who fought in our wars, paid their taxes, raised their families and went to church on Sundays. Not exactly the kind of people Trumpka and Obama care about.
LLS
<White guy. Obama blame it all on me.
I did not know that you would be worse than Jimmy Carter.
I did not know that you were Chicago’s village idiot.
Let’s see an anti-white political guy and machine and he has a ‘white guy’ problem?
Who’d of thunk it?
I would have been proud to have, had Herman Cain as my President...(it bothered me not who he had been schtupping)
I would have proudly chanted after the win....’My Guy is blacker than your guy’.
but my guy is NOT A MARXIST. which is the real problem with the current regime, now isn’t it?
Dick “Fifth Amendment” Trumpka is delusional. If they couldn’t get it done in 2010 or in Wisconsin, they won’t get it done in November.
Nope, he's "black."
All these pointless 'firsts' are important to the Left: first Latina [what's that anyway, a woman who speaks Spanish?] Supreme Court justice, and so on. If it's going to happen anyway, I'd rather just check it off the list and get it over with. Please don't give them an out on the first "black" president.
These communist pigs have an outsized image of themselves.
A quarter of AFL-CIO members did not vote for Obama in 2008.
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3/4 of them will vote against Obama in 2012.
Unions are not listening to RANK AND FILE.
Pilots Picket The White House
More than 100 United Airlines pilots showed up in front of the White House on Monday to protest their stalled labor talks with the airline. The pilots, wearing their uniforms, carried signs asking for help from President Obama and protesting United’s use of Aer Lingus pilots to fly a Washington-to-Madrid route. The airline is “addicted to offshoring,” according to the signs. In a vote taken on July 17, nearly 94 percent of the eligible pilots voted, and 99 percent of them agreed to a strike, according to the Air Line Pilots Association. The vote, which starts the clock on a 30-day cooling-off period, followed two years of negotiations after the merger of United and Continental.
“The strength of this vote clearly indicates the level of frustration our pilots have with management’s disinterest in reaching a conclusion to negotiations,” said Jay Pierce, chairman of the ALPA unit representing the Continental pilots. “Our pilots are tired of management’s lack of progress with the merger and the damage to our airline that grows every day.” Over the last decade, pilots made sacrifices to help the airline survive, ALPA said, and management has eliminated jobs by offshoring and outsourcing “at the very same time they have given themselves millions of dollars in salary, bonuses and perks.” The airline said in a statement that a strike vote “is not uncommon at this point in negotiations and was expected.” About 7,600 pilots work for United and 4,800 pilots for Continental, ALPA said.
http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/2283-full.html#207146
Truth be told, it is only the Left that really concerns itself with these matters.
And we thought it was only the white racists in the South that cared about the proverbial 'one-drop of n***** blood' ... do we need any more proof as to who the real racists are in this country?
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