Comments on: Obama Union Pledge Raises Questions

The New Republic: Illinois Senator's Pledge To End Teamsters Oversight May Be Too Cozy

[eroosevelt08]

It would be dumb unless Obama wants the corruption instead.

[eroosevelt08]

Getting rid of the IRB is a dumb thing for Obama to want to do.

*7 cents per gallon every 30 days

[greeneyes222]

A reasonable enough article for those of us who remember the whole Teamsters/organized crime business. It''s bound to not go over well with Obama followers, who appear to be too young to remember the Teamsters, the first Mayor Daly, and a lot of the bad that came out of that era. This isn''t "change", this is reversion to the bad old days.

Then again, Obama is from Illinois, and he most certainly was around for all that as the article says.

I''m not going to defend Bush; he''s done a lot that''s wrong. I''m not comfortable with McCain and his endless flip-flops either. But Obama is an equally bad choice for different reasons like this one. What in Hades are voters supposed to do when the choice is the devil or the deep blue sea?

Joyous, I see you on here everyday, with nothing more intelligent to say than whine BUSH, BUSH, BUSH ad nauseum, youre Democrat congress is responsible for oil prices. When the republicans (I''m a long time libertarian that didn''t vote for Bush either time)controlled congress gas went up 3 cents per gallon every 30 days. Since the glorious dems took control the price has gone up 70 cents per gallon. I may be a dummy but I can do simple math.

[sabniz]

Go away, Obama! We don''t need Obama type of change in US.

Go away, please, no anymore scary stories coming out about him!

[joyous88]

the only criminal organization worth mentioning these

days is the republicon party,

after 12 years of rape and pillage on the US treasury

the country in ruins, the economy down the drain

oil over 130 dollars a barrel today, you are wasting our time worrying about a few unions

keep your eye on the ball dummy

The only "change" Obama will give us will be the few coins left from the U.S. economy.

"Rich CEO''s have let us down every time, in the past"??? You must be an idiot. Rich CEO''s run the huge industries that create so many jobs. "In the past", they were allowed to build businesses that made this country the role-model of the planet. Now all of you whining liberal punks have made it so that there is less and less incintive for people to start businesses (and create jobs). The unions are nothing but criminal orginizations that cost jobs through hyper-regulation. It''s no wonder that whining liberal fascists love them, and it''s certainly no surprise that Obama supports them. He wants to further regulate free enterprise and free the the union crooks from scrutiny. Just another politician, just like all the rest of them. The only person he will help is himself and his criminal friends...

[joyous88]

McBushSame is the same kind of a veteran that GW Bush is,

little rich boys put into fighter pilot school by

their rich daddies, McSame''s mistake = he was not

as clever as Bush in avoiding combat, and not lucky

enough to avoid getting shot down,

he is a great guy for fighting back as a POW, but as a

a veteran he is merely unlucky, hardly a hero, and

hardly a president, just more of the same