Obama's fundraising collides with his rhetoric

[William769]

Union says senator did little to save jobs


GALESBURG, Ill. - Maytag workers whose jobs were shipped to Mexico serve as consistent characters in Barack Obama's stump speech. He employs their stories in railing against corporations that use trade pacts to replace well-paid union workers with low-cost foreign ones.

It is a ready applause line for the Illinois presidential hopeful, one that he has been reciting almost verbatim since he was a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2004, when appliance giant Maytag was in the process of shutting a refrigerator plant here, putting 1,600 people out of work.

But the union that represented most of those Galesburg workers isn't impressed with Obama's advocacy. It has endorsed his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. Its leaders say they wish he had done more about their members' plight.

What rankles some is what Obama didn't do even as he expressed solidarity four years ago with workers mounting a desperate fight to save their jobs.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-galesburg_obama_webfeb01,0,4286527.story

[jlake]

1. K&R To expose deception.

Hill Yes! Hillary can clean up this mess!

[William769]

2. It seems when ever the media actually does their job and investigates Obama

We see his true colors.

[REDFISHBLUEFISH]

4. Yep, He is not change except for his stories!

FLIP FLOP, feel the wind, If it gets him a vote count Obama in!

[jlake]

6. Yes, unfortunately that is only once in a blue moon.

[my3boyz]

3. Hillary no...Biden YES!

[William769]

7. Didn't you get the memo? Biden dropped out.

So why spam a thread with something that will never happen?

[desi]

5. K&R

for No.More.Empty.Suits ala *Boosh. :hi:

[William769]

9. Thanks.

:hi:

[iamjoy]

8. This Is So Unfair!

Democrats are held to a higher standard than Republicans. Republicans can just take money from whomever and never have to give a crap about working families. Democrats care about working families, but (as noted in the article) do need money to run a viable campaign. So, when they take money from corporations who do not look out for their workers, they are hypocrites. If they take money from celebrities, they are part of that elitist, morally bankrupt Hollywood culture. If they only take money from the pure, they fade into obscurity.

That being said, since Obama has attacked Edwards this is a little bit of chickens coming home to roost for the Illinois Senator acting all holier than thou. Of course, Edwards attacked both Clinton and Obama, so I guess turnabout is fair play.

None of us are perfect, and perhaps we should be more tolerant of each other's seeming inconsistencies. We know that either Obama or Clinton (as president) would do more to help working families than any of the Republican candidates, so let's stop fighting over who is the purest.