Hillary Clinton: "the reasons I support Barack Obama"

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Hillary Clinton: "the reasons I support Barack Obama"
By Joel Wendland

His speech didn't make prime time TV from the Democratic National Convention, but his story and the promise of how his story could be changed did.

Robin Golden is a UAW member who is losing his job as an inspector at Lear Corp., an auto supplier based in Michigan. Lear is shipping its operations overseas, taking advantage of free trade agreements and Bush administration subsidies to corporations who want to move elsewhere.

A resident of the Grand Rapids, Michigan area, Golden told an afternoon session of the Democratic convention Tuesday, Aug. 26th, that his health care expires in just a few weeks and that he has been diagnosed with diabetes.

"It's time for a change," Golden told the convention. "My wife and I work hard, clip coupons and make sacrifices. We need a president who represents the working-class family and not big oil."

That's why Robin Golden is supporting Barack Obama. Golden's story is much like the nearly 500,000 other workers in America who have lost their jobs this year, or the 47 million who lack health care coverage, or the millions whose homes are threatened to be foreclosed on.

These are the people, Hillary Clinton told an enraptured, packed audience at the DNC in Denver, Colorado, that she has spent her career fighting for, and these are the reasons she is supporting Barack Obama.

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