Clinton Camp Hits Obama Over Teamsters Report
On a conference call with reporters this morning, the Clinton campaign knocked Barack Obama over a report in the Wall Street Journal today that Obama "won the endorsement of the Teamsters earlier this year after privately telling the union he supported ending the strict federal oversight imposed to root out corruption."
Clinton has not taken a position on oversight of the Teamsters, and, as the Journal notes, Obama's stance is unusual, as "[p]olicy makers have largely treated monitoring of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters as a legal matter left to the Justice Department since an independent review board was set up in 1992 to eliminate mob influence in the union."
"One has to wonder what exactly Senator Obama's position is," spokesperson Phil Singer said on the call, as TPM points out. "It would appear as though he's taking a position in private and not telling voters about that view."
Obama told ABC this morning that he "wouldn't make any blanket commitments" on the issue.
"What I've said is is that we should take a look at what's been happening over the Teamsters and at all unions, to make sure that in fact organized labor is able to represent it's membership and engage in collective bargaining in accordance to what we've always believed in," Obama added.
Clinton has not taken a position on oversight of the Teamsters, and, as the Journal notes, Obama's stance is unusual, as "[p]olicy makers have largely treated monitoring of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters as a legal matter left to the Justice Department since an independent review board was set up in 1992 to eliminate mob influence in the union."
"One has to wonder what exactly Senator Obama's position is," spokesperson Phil Singer said on the call, as TPM points out. "It would appear as though he's taking a position in private and not telling voters about that view."
Obama told ABC this morning that he "wouldn't make any blanket commitments" on the issue.
"What I've said is is that we should take a look at what's been happening over the Teamsters and at all unions, to make sure that in fact organized labor is able to represent it's membership and engage in collective bargaining in accordance to what we've always believed in," Obama added.
MORE OBAMA BULL ***...THIS GUY IS A FLAT OUT LIAR.
- why did he dis-invite & dis-associate him from his campaign ? He mentioned in one of the debates that there were "some other things" which led him into this decision. What were those thoughts/views?
- just because Mr. Wright termed him a "politician in front of Press", BHO was "outraged" . To him, anyone can condemn America as long as he is not condemned.
- Michelle Obama felt proud of this country only when she saw herself enjoying the status of being the "first lady". Till that time, she ( with or without BHO on her side) continued to listen to Mr. Wright and be proud to take her daughters through the Hate speeches.
- Even assuming that BHO was so occupied with all the other stuff in his life that he never heard anything bad from Mr. Wright, it is unimaginable that MO never heard any of these. So, did she ever discuss this with BHO and the impact of this on their daughters or is it that they both have been raised with the same beliefs that Mr. Wright is openly preaching and they felt nothing wrong with it till someone pointed its possible impact to them just before BHO announced his presidential run. Even then, they were absolutely OK with having a basement prayer !!
I strongly believe that BHO & MO have consistently believed everything that Mr. Wright has said. So, the sooner they accept this, the better it will be for Democrats, Hillary, the AMERICANS and the WORLD.
But it is primary week, so I guess we will get the negative Obama stories all the time as we usually do.
"People in the small Austrian town of Amstetten are reeling in shock as details emerge of a woman''s two-decade imprisonment and rape at the hands of her father, a crime the Austrian interior minister called "unfathomable."
Man admits to imprisoning daughter for 24 years, fathering her 7 children."A 73-year-old man confessed he built a dungeon in the basement of the family''s home in downtown Amstetten. He says he kept his own daughter locked up for almost 24 years in order to prevent her having access to the local drug scene," Austrian prosecutor Gerhard Sedlacek told ABC News.
At a press conference today with local law enforcement officials and medical staff present, Sedlacek called the case "a unique crime of such proportion I haven''t seen in 32 years of my career, a terrible crime, which is beyond imagination."
Elisabeth Fritzl, who was reported missing in 1984 when she was 18, was found by police last weekend and told investigators her father, Josef Fritzl, had held her captive for almost 24 years in a small space in the basement of the family home in downtown Amstetten.
He repeatedly raped her and fathered her seven children, three of whom were never allowed outside of the basement, according to police.
Passing judgement on an unsourced WSJ article with no hard facts to go on...typical of them.
This story may be true or it may be total ***, who knows? Not you!
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Clintont_to_Teamsters_Turn_the_page_on_consent_decree.html
Clinton speak with forked tongue - but that''s not news. Say anything, do anything, agree to punish FL and MI, then say you never did when lying suits your purpose. Sounds a lot like my ex-wife, actually LOL!
"%u201CYou can%u2019t go around dragging the ball and the chain of the past,%u201D Mrs. Clinton said on that occasion %u2014 the March 27, 2007, meeting of the board %u2014 according to an audio tape that the union made available. %u201CAnd I think that%u2019s true for anybody, any organization, any individual,%u201D she continued. %u201CAnd so I would be very open to looking at that, and to saying, %u2018What are we trying to accomplish here?%u2019 and see what the answers were. At some point, you turn the page and go on.%u201D
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/us/politics/05cnd-teamsters.html
The day after New Year''s 1996, operatives for Barack Obama filed into a barren hearing room of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners.
There they began the tedious process of challenging hundreds of signatures on the nominating petitions of state Sen. Alice Palmer, the longtime progressive activist from the city''s South Side. And they kept challenging petitions until every one of Obama''s four Democratic primary rivals was forced off the ballot...
...Obama quickly mastered the bare-knuckle arts of Chicago electoral politics. His overwhelming legal onslaught signaled his impatience to gain office, even if that meant elbowing aside a black elder stateswoman like Palmer.
Looks like Obama will go to any length to get into office even if it means removing an honorable Black Stateswoman!!!
Sad really, when the year started out with such promise.
It is really quite easy. If we want a fresh new start in American Politics we need a fresh new face from a fresh new corner.
With all of the third parties available to us, why would we continue voting for the same two representative parties of the status quo and kid ourselves about "Real Change"? How can we really be so foolish???
backroom deal''s same old story
same old game
IS IT REASONABLE to simply assume that the majority of America will accept a President who won as the result of racism??
Obama gets a free ride by the media. AGAIN! He is the one that is negative and nasty with the personal attacks! I"m so done with CNN and MSNBC....you journalists are pathetic. DO YOUR JOB! REPORT EQUALLY!
CLINTON SUPPORTERS SEEM TO GET MORE AND MORE IRRATIONAL AND EXTREME AS MRS CLINTON DOES, AND VERY ANTI-OBAMA, BAD SPORTMANSHIP, AND MEAN SPIRITED. SINCE SHE IS THE LOSING ONE ON THE NUMBERS END IT MAKES HER LOOK BAD, AND HER SIDE OF THE VOTERS APPEAR DEMENTED.
Posted by ladyesq1
Yes. And take for instance CNN.com yesterday with its headline that Hillary is going negative against Obama. But you read the underlying article to find out that they are referring to her TV ad on the "gas holiday" that was made IN RESPONSE to Obama''s TV ad saying that Clinton was "pandering". So, in reality, it was Obama that went negative, but the media, as usual, flips it to give the impression that it is Clinton that is the negative, same old politician. And CNN is not alone on this. (Note, I wanted to place a comment at CNN.com saying this, but everytime I do, I get a message that all messages are reviewed and not all or published. That''s fine, but mine are never published. I don''t use abusive language or call any of the candidate''s names unlike others whose messages are posted, so I have to wonder what their real policy is.) Also, not to pick on CNN, but I''ve noticed when they are talking about the issues in the Democratic primary, often they will have an Obama supporter to represent Obama, but instead of getting a Clinton supporter to represent her, they use a Republican. I find that strange. MSNBC does this as well, but, they are "Obama Central" so it comes as no suprise.
It is very upsetting.
Would the African Americans please not just vote for the Black President. The Democrats will lose if they continue to do this.
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by dnsallday
May 6, 2008 2:33 PM PDT
- Hillary Clinton is a slimy piece of work. She is quoted saying that very thing in an interview with the Teamsters.
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See all 31 CommentsMaybe I wouldn''t feel shame for anything I did if I had a hundred million dollars in my bank account either!