The Trail: A Daily Diary of Campaign 2008

Hooray!! Lets get a jump on defining McCain as the war mongering, Bush lover, panderer to the lunatic right that he really is. One thing they should point out is that he has NO prinicipals. Remember how he opposed torture? That is until he wanted Republican votes. Now he supports Bush's veto of the anti-torture bill. Remember how he opposed the Bush tax cuts because they were targeted for millionaires? Now he wants to make them permanent. Remember how he wanted a fair policy on immigrants? Now he favors a fence on the border and no hope of citizenship. And remember how he said that Bush had the right to have Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense? Until Rumsfeld resigned and suddenly McCain had opposed him all along. McCain must think Americans are stupid. I hope the AFL-CIO starts running ads showing McCain hugging and kissing Bush and the wheels falling off the McCain "straigt talk" bus.

Both Barack and Hillary have pledged to support EFCA. AFL-CIO wants EFCA because it frees their member unions from obtaining the consent of the governed (employees) in secret-ballot elections conducted by a neutral government agency. Everything else is cover for growing union dues/political contribution revenues for unions.

The Republican party has historically been the party for the common man (the party that freed black slaves and gave women the right to vote for the first time) -- the party of freedom, independence, and enterprise. On the other hand, the Democratic party seems to be the party with a victim mentality. They blame others for their problems and want big government and big unions to rescue them. They want to portray big business as the bad guys and those who support big business interest as bad. Well, if you create a poor environment for business with big taxes, increase regulation and increase business costs (thanks in part to big unions), guess what? Business will slow or close. No business = no jobs. Anyways, the big unions are just another big special interest group getting rich off the people they claim to represent.

Too bad McCain will be soft on the unions - they are simply corrupt, monopolistic, political organizations protected by law. They should all disappear and no one will miss them - especially the workers they claim to represent.

McCain a fascist? What? The guy who wants to end torture and close Gitmo??

Oh, goody, a "union" that actively enrolls illegals, advocates open borders, is going after a Presidential candidate for at least being honest. Look gang, what McCane said was something to the effect that Obama and Clinton are undermining our foreign policy by talking about renegotiating NAFTA and other trade treaties. Hear that? McCane, like Bush and Cltinon before him, think it's perfectly proper to trade American jobs, YOUR JOB, in support of their foreign policy initiatives. Either our foreign policy is in the interests of Canda and Mexico and Europe or it isn't. If it is so bad that some politcian needs to trade American jobs and money and technology, to BRIBE THEM, to gain their support, then that policy deserves to fail. At the very least, no government official has the right to trade American jobs, our security, our nations future, in support of some miserably botched vision of theirs. Someone needs to tell these people, the AFL-CIO, the Clinton's and Obama, too, that they exist to serve the people of this country, to ensure that our jobs stay here, that any trade treaties, tax policies, the whole wheel of government, are in the interests of the AMERICAN people.

It is clear that all those conservative white Republicans who crossed over to vote for Hillary in the Democratic primary in Mississippi just want her to stay in the race to keep punching Obama below the belt.

Pretty pathetic that a Democrat would allow themselves to be used like that ...

But then again, she was the one who said that she and MCCAIN were better on national security than her Democratic rival.

Like I said, pretty pathetic ...

It is clear that all those conservative white Republicans who crossed over to vote for Hillary in the Democratic primary in Mississippi just want her to stay in the race to keep punching Obama below the belt.

Pretty pathetic that a Democrat would allow themselves to be used like that ...

But then again, she was the one who said that she and MCCAIN were better on national security than her Democratic rival.

Like I said, pretty pathetic ...

Maybe they should protest at hillary's events too, their the lesser of two evils support of candidates that favor free trade has landed them where they are today. Bill killed them with Nafta, MFN status with China, and helped export tech jobs to India. Hill will finish the job. Obama "might" be better, he's taken a lot less corporate cash, although I doubt he has the fervor of John Edwards on this issue. Nobody seems to get that "jobs" are the big issue, with one nothing else really maters to families.

The AFL-CIO is a "paper-tiger", actually their is not much of the CIO left in the unions, since the Auto-Workers, Steel Workers, Chemical Workers and other industrial unions have vanished.

Thus, the AFL-CIO is comprised on workers,many of which are Republicans, and throw their mailings in the trash unopened.

Many workers, that are in a union in the AFL, are only in because of the money, paid on Federal Jobs because of the Davis/Bacon Act, which inflates wages.

Because of their high incomes, they have become Conservatives, and will vote for McCain.

I am glad I am not alone in not voting for McCain.

1. He has a consistent pattern of shocking verbal abuse, including screaming profanities, against Senate Republican
colleagues who oppose his bills in any way; and
2. He has exercised scandalously poor judgment by intervening with the federal regulators on behalf of Charles H.
Keating, Jr. in the Savings and Loan Crisis of the 1980s; and
3. He has worked against the principles of the Republican Party, promoting greatly expanding federal regulatory
authority in order to combat global warming in ways that would greatly burden the American economy, contrary to free
market forces; and
5. He has fought the Republican Party to create the Patient's Bill of Rights, which allowed the government to impose a set
of burdensome mandates on insurance coverage; and
4. He has undermined the principles of a free market economy by voting for an amendment that would authorize the
Secretary of Health and Human Services to implement price controls on prescription drugs under Medicare; and
6. He has worked against the Republican Party to make a mockery of the rule of law, promoting amnesty for 20 million
illegal immigrants; and
7. He has voted to subvert American Sovereignty by granting consulting rights to Mexico concerning the erection of a
southern border fence; and
8. He has undermined the Constitution and opposed the Constitutional duties of the Vice President to break a tie on
judicial nominations; and
9. He has worked against Conservative principles, undermining the First Amendment by abridging the free speech of
citizens partaking in the political process; and
10. He has consistently led eorts undermining Second Amendment rights by promoting bills which regulate all sales at
gun shows; regulations which force gun-owners to purchase trigger locks, making their rearms useless for self-defense;
regulations which restrict the legitimate transfer of rearms over the internet; and regulations which extend the
restrictions of the Brady bill to pawn shops and gun repair shops; and
11. He has voted to use taxpayer funds to harvest stem cells from human embryos; and
12. He has refused to take immediate and direct action to protect the life of the unborn; he opposes the repeal of Roe v.
Wade; and he opposes a constitutional amendment to protect all human life; and
13. He sponsored and voted for a 282% tax increase on cigarettes that would have unconstitutionally violated the First
Amendment and increased the size of the federal bureaucracy exponentially by giving the FDA unrestricted control over
nicotine; and
14. He supports raising Social Security taxes; and
15. He has broken with the Republican Party in strongly opposing President Bush's tax cuts in 2001 and 2003. He also
joined leading liberal senators in oering and voting for amendments designed to undermine the tax cuts.

Is there any candidate that cares about the CONSTITUTION and LIBERTY??

No mention was made in this article that it was McCain that helped push the Tanker contract offshore. That's one more reason why the Union is getting really involved. We don't have time to wait for the result of the Boeing appeal.
American jobs for American citizen's!!! Especially when it involves the American military.

The AFL/CIO is only interested in protecting ILLEGAL ALIENS and they're worried the Republicans might make McCain do something about it ! They already know the two Democratics have promised to give the Nation away to the ILLEGAL ALIENS and their extended families . Just go to their website , click on Immigration and you'll think it's La Razza . I was a member for 27 years , I just quit because they are betraying the very people who made them ! Go look , then quit and let them know why !!

John McCain is a tired old man with tired, dangerous ideas. He's never worked in the marketplace, doesn't understand the economy, has deep connections to lobbyists, proved to be a poor manager of his own campaign and yet he thinks he should be President. Why? To start another war-- that seems to be his only experience and his only real idea.

maurban-Fascism is ideology waged based on Religious motivation.

al-Huckleberry was a Fascist wannabe!

al-Sadr, al-Sistani, and Ayatolla Khomeini, ARE!

to #1 - FYI: McCain isn't a capitalist, he's a fascist...

Golly, the Socialists do not want the Capitalist to win.

Now, who'd have Thunk THAT? ;~)

The Marraige of the Marxist/Leninist AFL/CIO with the "Hate America Forst" Democrats will succeed in tarnishing an American Hero to the benefit of socialist Clinton and Obama.

McCain was asked about his economic policy by Ron Paul in a debate and the response was scary;

John McCain's Economic Policy: "Your money for nothing and..."

http://ronpaul.myfeedportal.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=42

McCain should work with Ron Paul (or the likes there of willing to make the hard changes needed), if he has any hope, if WE have any hope.

Speaking of pocketbook concerns, what is this advocate (the AFL CIO, I mean) for working class families doing spending such a prepostorous amount of money on negative campaigning? Wasting 53 million dollars on trashing somebody is outrageous for an organization that is supposed to be aiding its members? Isn't their a cheaper, more inoffensive way to get their point across?

Hahaha... that's awesome. The dems are too tied up to start really paying attention to him and he's STILL getting negative campaign attention.

I love it, makes me feel better to know even with a headstart the GOP (or at least McCain) can't keep their heads above water.