Comments on: SEIU Labor Union Backs Obama

1.8 Million-Member Service Employees International Union Cites Senator As Candidate Of The Future

[remco82]

Hillary yaks nonstop about her "35 years of experience". What''s that all about? So she set out the silverware, china and napkins for White Houses dinners as First Lady. Does that qualify her for the Presidency? Give me a break!

[sjbj2322]

Yeah Right....that''s why he''s avoiding debates. Don''t give me that...there''s already been 18. The gloves are coming off. This guy can''t represent unless it comes from a prepared speech and you know it. But while we''re at it on what he has and hasn''t supported, tell me why you would back someone who twice voted against a ban on Partial Birth Abortions though Clinton, Kennedy, and Kerry voted for it. Oh, I know...he probably had some fundamental objection! Phew~~~

[infidel_us]

The two loser congressman from GA (Lewis & Scott) have bailed on Hillary to back da bro. This probably pulls as much weight as a Kennedy endorsement in MA, but still......Lewis just announced his support for Hillary just a few weeks ago.

not hard to judge Lewis by the content of his character.....he has none!

[realpatriot1]

sjbj2322,

Obama supporters would love to compare scores on that one. She''s been in the Senate longer but has far less to show for it. Hillary supporters go on and on about her great accomplishments yet never seem able to name what they are.

Who cares what Ortega says about anything? He probably thinks Hillary is great for running unopposed in Michigan.

[sjbj2322]

Lady_Prof wrote: Obama proposed a wide range of progressive legislation.

SO WHAT!! How many did he actually get passed. All legislatures do this but the proof is in the pudding. You wanna compare scores on that one? GO HILLARY!!

[sjbj2322]

Look Who Else Obama impresses....

President Daniel Ortega, who led the 1979 revolution in Nicaragua, says Barack Obama''s presidential bid is a "revolutionary" phenomenon in the United States. Ortega led a Soviet-backed government that battled U.S.-supported Contra rebels before he lost power in a 1990 election. It took only one and a half hours for Ortega to reveal his trump card for restoring dignity in Central America''s poorest country: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. So far that means a mix of nationalism, demagogy and some old-fashioned conservative monetary policies, which include increasing tax collection at home by more than 50 percent.

[sjbj2322]

Part 1: Here ya go Lady_Prof YEA%u2026..Here%u2019s your HONESTY. OBAMA BELIEVES IN YOU BUT JUST IN CASE%u2026.WHOSE BUYING VOTES WHILE TELLING HIS SUPPORTERS THAT IT SHOULD BE THEIR VOICE AND NOT THE SUPERDELEGATES THAT DETERMIN WHOSE NOMINATED.
Obama, who narrowly leads in the count of pledged, "non-super" delegates, has doled out more than $694,000 to superdelegates since 2005. Of the 81 elected officials who had announced as of Feb. 12 that their superdelegate votes would go to the Illinois senator, 34, or 40 percent of this group, have received campaign contributions from him in the 2006 or 2008 election cycles, totaling $228,000. In addition, Obama has been endorsed by 52 superdelegates who haven''t held elected office recently and, therefore, didn''t receive campaign contributions from him.

[sjbj2322]

Part 2: Clinton does not appear to have been as openhanded. Her PAC has distributed $195,500 to superdelegates. Only 12 percent of her elected superdelegates, or 13 of 109 who have said they will back her, have received campaign contributions, totaling about $95,000 since 2005. An additional 128 unelected superdelegates support Clinton, according to a blog tracking superdelegates and their endorsements, 2008 Democratic Convention Watch.
Because superdelegates will make up around 20 percent of 4,000 delegates to the Democratic convention in August, Clinton and Obama are aggressively wooing the more than 400 superdelegates who haven''t yet made up their minds. Since 2005 Obama has given 52 of the undecided superdelegates a total of at least $363,900, while Clinton has given a total of $88,000 to 15 of them. Anticipating that their intense competition for votes in state primaries and caucuses will result in a near-tie going into the nominating convention, the two candidates are making personal calls to superdelegates now, or are recruiting other big names to do so on their behalf. With no specific rules about what can and can''t be done to court these delegates, just about anything goes.

[realpatriot1]

Prinzowhales,

Something tells me that you''ve never gotten your hands dirty given yuor virulent Union bashing.

The Union is follwoing the will of its membership and has to choose between 2 candiates to their liking.

They are acting now in order to hopefully help to avoid what most in our party want to avoid. That would be a brokered Convention controlled by special interests that would circumvent the will of the public, just the kind of politics you so often and so stridently claim to oppose.

[prinzowhales]

"The first thing we do, let''s kill all the lawyers." William Shakespeare, HENRY VI, Act IV, Scene 2

[lady_prof]

While a student at Harvard, Obama became President of the Harvard Law Review, the most prestigious honor a law student can earn. He graduated with high honors and then passed up dozens of extremely lucrative offers from large private and corporate law firms to work as an associate attorney with Miner, Barnhill & Galland from 1993 to 1996, where he represented community organizers, discrimination claims, and voting rights cases." At the same time he taught as an adjunct (part-time) faculty member in the University of Chicago%u2019s Law School where he became reknown as a Constitutional scholar.

After Yale grad. Hilary Clinton flunked the D.C. bar exam for the second time (where the pass rate is 65%), she went to Arkansas and to it%u2019s bar exam (where the pass rate is 80%) and passed. She then became a lawyer with the Rose law firm which represents corporations. She still has ties there. Mrs. Clinton sat on Walmart''s board for 6 years and never once spoke out while Walmart battled their employees. She was still on that board during the class action lawsuit that women brought against Walmart. In video taped board meetings, she sat mute on the issues. She was a token woman on their board.

[lady_prof]

Here are a few of Barack Obama%u2019s exceptionally worthwhile accomplishments. I will quote from John k. Wilson%u2019s book %u201CBarack Obama: This Improbable quest.%u201D: %u201CAlthough ranking at the bottom of the U.S. Senate in seniority and trying to keep a low profile in the face of his media celebrity, Obama introduced bills to reduce mercury and lead pollution, improve security at chemical plants, help develop alternative energy, protect drinking water from terrorist attacks, improve the safety of spent nuclear fuel, increase rail and transit security, improve emergency evacuation and aid procedures, help the victims of Hurricane Katrina, speed up background checks for immigrants, make employers verify the legal status of employees, aid innovative school districts and summer programs, increase the Pell grant and make higher education more affordable, guard against an Asian flu epidemic, protect genetic privacy while increasing genetic research, increase the efficiency of the health care system, provide housing for homeless veterans, improve ethics on Capital Hill by limiting the revolving door and ending lobbyist gifts, prevent voter intimidation, and create an Office of Public Integrity.%u201D%u201CObama sponsored 152 bills and resolutions and cosponsored 427 bills in the 109th Congress during 2005 and 2006. Beginning with a bill to increase funding of Pell Grants to help poor students attend college, Obama proposed a wide range of progressive legislation.%u201D

[irishbitch12]

Union endorsement does not mean that their members have to vote that way. The members of a union are free thinkers and therefore liberal.Unions stand up for the middle class workers and make sure they are paid what they are worth and treated the right way.

[prinzowhales]

The SEIU...no principles...no character...no union! It waits till the field is narrowed and then tries to back a winner...Scum! This is why unions lose ground...they''ve given up pushing any agenda for working Americans...instead they support any Establishment candidate who will chat them up like drunken chippies.

I''m surprised they didn''t crawl into the gutter and endorse McCain. The Teamsters, in the past, endorsed that great Trade Union Labour Leader, Richard Nixon....

But, all in all, Obama, with his crack pipe and Che Guevera posters, is at least a smidgin better than Hillary Clinton...for a people reduced to picking through the refuse for a leader.

[realpatriot1]

shouaxx,

He''s the only one running who was right from day 1 on Iraq. He''s the only one running who realizes that the leadership of Al Quaeda is in Pakastan, not Iraq or Iran.

Other posters have listed all the pieces of legislation that this "junior Senator" has successfully co-sponsered on a bipartison basis,
so I won''t repeat the laundry list.

Those who claim he hasn''t done anything or doesn''t stand for anything should go to his website and read the pages and pages of specifics. You won''t find any more specific and sensible proposals on the sites of the other candidates.

Maybe you should all withhold judgement until you educate yourselves some more.

[realpatriot1]

jomurphy,

The DNC and the Obama campaign have suggested another election and Hillary isn''t having it. Like Sadaam and Hugo Chavez, she prefers elections where she''s the only one on the ballot. That''s why she agreed that the delegates should not be seated originally if the Primaries were moved up then reneged in an effort to run unopposed.

Her position is not grounded in principle; her original position was.

Slimey is as slimey does.

[realpatriot1]

pelosisstill,

I used to be a member of SEIU and you aren''t in any position to speak for how it''s members feel.

Unions are elected by their members to advocate on their behalf and most of those hard working people understand that giving money to Democrats will lead to better conditions and pay and a better life for themselves and their family.

Do you feel the same outrage for multinational Corporations who pay off politicians of both parties to screw working people?

Your comments about Obama, the SEIU is just a bunch of nonsensical jibberish that makes you sound like a total idiot.

[pelosisstill]

Stern and Obama - two Blame America slimebags who truly deserve one another.

Too bad both of them won''t move to Iran - they''d be better off there.

[pelosisstill]

So what else is new from a so-called "protector of workers" group that in reality has NEVER done a d*mn thing for them.

But their Fuhrer Andrew Stern sure knows how to go golfing with Democratic candidates and hand them handsome paychecks culled from millions of American workers - including scores who deeply resent the money taken from their paychecks to fund candidates whom they despise - and NOT to protect or provide benefits for workers.

SEIU 660 should be outlawed in this country for its innate Fascism and real betrayal of workers - but hey, we''re a Democracy, and the Libs would be crying in their fruit juice if we did.

[cbs_oliver]

what the hell has this guy done! Name one thing that would make him the right person for the job!

Posted by shouaxx at 03:31 AM : Feb 15, 2008
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Most recently Obama voted in the Senate to uphold the rule of law for Telecoms who had broken the law to spy on Americans.

Hillary didn''t vote. But most of her supporters voted to give the Telecoms immunity from the law.

Either Telecom immunity is Hillary''s position or she doesn''t have much influence with her own supporters.

Anyway, you can find out more about what he has done and what he proposes to do on Obama''s web site.