Obama's fundraising collides with his rhetoric

[demokatgurrl]

Obama's fundraising collides with his rhetoric
Union says senator did little to save jobs

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

“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.”

[ursi]

1. LOL! I've done economic development. There is little anyone can do to save jobs

in government for the private sector besides hand the corporation pork. This is a stretch.

I guess Hillary has a magic wand!

[Cant trust em]

10. I'm glad that someone in here knows what they're talking about

There isn't a whole lot a legislator can do to force a company to keep jobs in the United States. They can give them incentives to stay or remove those incentives if they leave, but if a company wants to ship jobs to Bangladesh that's what's going to happen.

[femrap]

2. He's bought and paid for....nt

[REDFISHBLUEFISH]

3. His clean campaign financed by the little guy is not quite as it appears.

[madrchsod]

5. by who?

[femrap]

7. Corporate Daddy...

Big Pharma will take care of its son, Obama.

[candice]

11. Obama's national co-chair is a registered federal lobbyist

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/02/544600.aspx

The Exelon corporation took precedence over the health of Illinois citizens because this corporation donated big money to Bama.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/us/politics/03exelon.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

When residents in Illinois voiced outrage two years ago upon learning that the Exelon Corporation had not disclosed radioactive leaks at one of its nuclear plants, the state’s freshman senator, Barack Obama, took up their cause.

...

The history of the bill shows Mr. Obama navigating a home-state controversy that pitted two important constituencies against each other and tested his skills as a legislative infighter. On one side were neighbors of several nuclear plants upset that low-level radioactive leaks had gone unreported for years; on the other was Exelon, the country’s largest nuclear plant operator and one of Mr. Obama’s largest sources of campaign money.

Since 2003, executives and employees of Exelon, which is based in Illinois, have contributed at least $227,000 to Mr. Obama’s campaigns for the United States Senate and for president. Two top Exelon officials, Frank M. Clark, executive vice president, and John W. Rogers Jr., a director, are among his largest fund-raisers.

Another Obama donor, John W. Rowe, chairman of Exelon, is also chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nuclear power industry’s lobbying group, based in Washington. Exelon’s support for Mr. Obama far exceeds its support for any other presidential candidate.

[madrchsod]

4. there was`t anything barack could do to save their jobs...

the workers in galesburg should be asking bill clinton or his wife for help because the reason they lost their jobs was nafta...

[Strelnikov_]

6. "Maytag shut the Galesburg plant after Labor Day 2004"

Maytag shut the Galesburg plant after Labor Day 2004.

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Supporters of Obama note that he was still serving in the Illinois Senate in 2004 and was only a candidate for the U.S. Senate with no power beyond the bully pulpit to fight the closing. Since his election, he has backed legislation to combat the overseas export of American jobs. In May 2006, Obama wrote to the Secretary of Labor asking for assistance for displaced Maytag workers.


Good try. Next.

[WillyT]

8. LOL !!! - Good Job !!!

:kick:

[sandnsea]

9. You will need to make a copy of that

And be prepared to post it 20 times a day. They will never stop, no matter how many times it's debunked.