AFL-CIO aims to split vets from McCain

It is the rank and file of the AFL-CIO that will be splitting from the democrats.

Dream on Terry. Labor knows that the Republicans have nothing but contempt for them. They know that Republicans will never, ever stand with union workers against corporate management. They know that Republicans want lower wages, less benefits and higher healthcare cost for the average worker and will do everything in their power to bring that about.

Give the AFL-CIO members credit they do thier mmore of their own thinking than years ago- no the boss stooges of years ago-

Do they even still HAVE a rank and file? More unions are leaving the AFL these days. Too many lawyers at the top, not enough actual union workers...

"He wants us to keep spending $10 billion a month in Iraq, just like Bush."

He also wants to cut wasteful spending elsewhere and balance the budget by 2013, but that'll be left out. As will the little fact that Obama won't even commit to attempting to reduce our massive federal deficit, instead pledging to increase spending by $300 billion per year. Perhaps someone should mention that to these bad economy-stricken voters.

As a union member, of an international transportation union , I can tell you, the unions will be out asking America to stop the Republicans from destroying America, in the name of Corporate Greed. I will not, nor do I have to, innumerate the ills of our economy. I don't have to remind you of the devastation that is occurring in battered Iraq, in the name of our country, even though it was a war started with lies and distortions by the present administration!!!. I will not remind you of the Republican sabotage in our Congress, preventing any meaningful legislation from passing!! The majority party is being prevented from doing our country's business !! That is what, we, the American union worker, are telling America and asking her to vote, out of Office, those Republicans that have almost brought our great nation to its knees !! Any thing less then their ouster, and the Republicans will have succeeded in giving America to the Corporations !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

War veterans deserve a president who will not fail to use diplomacy. McCain has spent the campaign talking tough and threatening war. That is not diplomacy. He is failing not just the vets but all people. For a vet, who is also a union member, I can't see how anyone would vote for McCain. He'll send your jobs overseas and then send the vets too!

If McCain want's to use the '60s in his ads to highlight his POW background, when is the media going to ask the "Presidential" qualifying question?

Since McCain says the U.S. should have stayed in Vietnam, what would McCain have done differently in Vietnam from Johnson & Nixon? And does any historian or military strategist of note agree with McCain's strategy?

Since from what I understand, his views probably would have escalated Vietnam into WW III, don't you think this is the Vietnam-Era relevant presidential qualifying question to ask? Why has no one asked it?

Or like asking McCain how he will actually balance the budget beyond wishing for it, is this question too tough for our McCain lapdog media?

As usual, AFL-CIO assumes workers are idiots who can't think for our selves. That's why we can't be trusted alone in a voting booth when a union wants in at work. That's why we have to be told who to vote for. Soon, we won't need to vote at all. AFL-CIO will do it for us. Just sign a card.

"Every vet respects John McCain's war service. It's his record in the Senate that I have a problem with," Wasser says. "He wants us to keep spending $10 billion a month in Iraq, just like Bush. That's money we could use to build schools and roads and create needed jobs here at home."

I'm a Vietnam Veteran who couldn't have said it any better ... it's time for us to do something for America instead of wasting money over seas. Vote for Sen. Obama he is the only one for Working Families!

"He also wants to cut wasteful spending elsewhere and balance the budget by 2013, but that'll be left out."

That's the easiest promise in the world to make and the hardest one to follow through on. Yes, there is wasteful spending, but its not like the government just throws money out the window. Outside of Iraq, what could McCain possibly cut to reduce the defecit? Health-care, social security, pensions, education? Good luck getting any of those slashed, especially with dems in Congress. Earmarks have been the target of every politician since the 60s, yet they always manage to stay in the budget, tucked in to composite bills that support an array of projects.

All McCain's selling right now is a bunch of hot air and fairy tales.

The AFL-CIO is a joke! The rank and file members are getting tired of seeing their hard earned money (dues) spent in such foolish, radical liberal ways.

These actions say more about the AFL-CIO than they do about Senator John McCain. The AFL-CIO is sinking to the sleazy level of character assassination, while Senator McCain is maintaining his dignity, as a respected leader and war hero.

here goes this union of mine again wasting my contribution to an ill cause...why not shut up and do the talking later because it can not tell each and everyone who to vote for because not 100% will follow.