AMERICAblog: Labor group: "It’s time for Senator Hillary Clinton to send her vaunted ‘chief strategist’ Mark Penn packing"
ObamaMiracle
· 1 year ago
On a day when we remember the amazing memory of MLK, let's not forget the legacy of shame of the Clintonistas. During the 90's when Slick Willie almost bankrupt the economy, it hit low income African-Americans the hardest. When Bill was banging a barely legal intern inside the White House, Shillary was making up excuses for him. The African-American community will never forgive Billary for crafting negative racist ads and photo-shopping Obama's nose and skin color. Let's make sure on this sacred day that people don't forget the dishonor Shillary and her adulterous husband brought on the Democrat Party. Let's prevent them from trying to slime Barack with their racist bigotry.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Dear Mr. Penn, Apology accepted. Now go away. Very truly yours, an ALF-CIO-AFT retired member.
Obama does not have a paid lobbyist for a foreign country running his campaign. May be Hillary wants to add the Columbian's popular vote.
ObamaMiracle
· 1 year ago
No doubt Billary will use the military plane blown up in Qatar to feed into more fear and push her war agenda in Iraq. I'm so sick of the Clinton lies. They are putting our courageous young men and women in danger overseas. Billary needs to drop out of the primary and quit ruining it for the Democrat Party. Her racist tactics are just too much!
Okay ... Hillary's campaign is official a train wreck.
Cpeterka
· 1 year ago
Olbermann, Olbermann. GET This out to the media.
Cpeterka
· 1 year ago
U.S. B-1 bomber explodes on landing in Qatar: Jazeera Fri Apr 4, 2008 3:38pm EDT DUBAI (Reuters) - A U.S. B-1 bomber exploded while landing in a Qatari air base due to a technical fault on Friday, Qatar-based Al Jazeera television reported.
The television station did not say if anyone was hurt in the incident at the Al Udeid air base south of the Qatari capital Doha. It said earlier a B-52 plane had exploded.
A U.S. air force spokesman said he had no immediate report of such an incident and would check.
Al Udeid is used by U.S. forces in the Gulf Arab country, which hosted the advance headquarters of the U.S.-led forces in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
(Reporting by Firouz Sedarat; Editing by Jon Boyle)
Never understood how some ever felt the Clintons were good on labor issues. Did Bill ever stop the Republicans from dismantling labor rights? Under his watch, our jobs went overseas, pensions were destroyed, and health care was gutted. Maybe that wasn't their agenda but they didn't have the fight in them to save us from the Neocons...they sure can fight for themselves now though.
Sage24
· 1 year ago
This Mark Penn embarrassment has not been reported by the media yet. They seem to be sloth like in their reporting. Yawn. This is a big disgrace for Hillary. For her campaign to be run by Penn, whose connections are questionable, is unheard of. There is obvious conflict of interest, and I hope Hillary never becomes the Democratic nominee, because the Dems cannot afford to lose this election.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
This could mean two things:
1. That Hillary is saying one thing, while double dealing through Penn.
Or,
2. That Penn doesn't think Hillary has a snowball's chance in hell of winning anymore, and he's moving on with other business.
Either way, USS Hillary is taking on water.
KerrynowCampau
· 1 year ago
Does hillary really oppose the deal? After all Penn is telling her what to say to get votes.
From the woman whose husband gave us NAFTA.
SarainKC
· 1 year ago
I'd like to see the story of the Clinton fund-raiser last year where donors could have break-out strategy sessions with key members of the defense appropriations committee. If I'm not mistaken, Sheila Jackson Lee was on hand. Seems to me they got a lot of defense contractors flipping open their wallets for that little "meet and greet". It went with little MSM notice. Now would be a good time to remind the remaining states a Hillary administration has always been for sale to the highest bidder, no matter what she says to the little folk.
grasshopper
· 1 year ago
No, no, no. Keep Penn. Every campaign he touches is a guaranteed loss.
reflux1000
· 1 year ago
Is this big news in Penn.
reflux1000
· 1 year ago
Clinton hands are not clean of this trip she had to know and approve his going.
SarainKC
· 1 year ago
Clintons dumped her tax returns. Early report is after tax earnings over 56 million.
Tom3
· 1 year ago
"Backdoor torture?"
That's when Cheney has roids again and is out of Preparation H.
ARRRRRGH!!
Tom3
· 1 year ago
Hillary is a multimillionaire with lots of offshore earnings.
She's a corporate whore and a sellout. She will NOT represent the values of ordinary working Americans because she is not one of us.
Don't vote for Hillary unless you LIKE getting screwed by corporations.
FunMe
· 1 year ago
Exactly!
She care nothing for We The People.
She is so old school and needs to be reminded that the 90s are OVAH. And so is her run for the presidency that she will not get.
Andrew A. Gill
· 1 year ago
I love Change to Win.
A union that actually wants to spend more on getting people unionized than on wining and dining politicians?
I'll bet you thought they didn't exist.
PeteWa
· 1 year ago
This fits right in with NAFTA, CAFTA, and the other Clinton's continuation of the Reagan / Bush media deregulation schemes. The rise of monopolies under Reagan / Bush / Clinton / Bush should be seen as something of a pattern to anyone who actually pays attention (mindless trolls need not apply). The push to privatize everything under the sun in the last thirty years under all of the administrations has seen disasterous results to all but a slim handfull of people who make out like bandits. This new Robber Baron age needs to come to an end one way or the other. If our fellow disinterested, uninvolved Americans would pay attention it would end in a good way. However, I know too many of my fellows, and they are for the most part an ill informed, self righteous group prone to working against their own self interests, so I hold out little hope.
Tom3
· 1 year ago
A union that actually wants to spend more on getting people unionized than on wining and dining politicians?
The SEIU is like that. But my old union, the AFL-CIO was notorious for spending more on politicians than on recruting new members., and it hurt them a lot.
DoJ Investigators Probing Whether Goodling Fired Lawyer Due to Gay Rumors
aquarius2
· 1 year ago
Speaking of unions. Try goggling union busting and Anheuser Busch, you know the Anheuser Busch that made John McCain's wife a million 300 times over.
shoelimpy™
· 1 year ago
Why do Unions hate trade so much? Without trade, there could be no unions because there would be no jobs which would require workers to produce products.
Chris From Maine
· 1 year ago
the media would feast on Penn if he were running the Obama campaign.
nicho
· 1 year ago
Tom3 16 minutes ago
A union that actually wants to spend more on getting people unionized than on wining and dining politicians?
The SEIU is like that. But my old union, the AFL-CIO was notorious for spending more on politicians than on recruting new members., and it hurt them a lot.
Little known fact . . .
Unions did a lot of good for a lot of people before WW2. During WW2, they had to pull back because of the war. After the war, the corporatists passed the Taft-Hartley Act over the veto of Truman.
Taft-Hartley did a lot of bad things for labor, but the worst thing it did was -- in the era of anti-Communist hysteria -- was to force unions to purge all the real lefties.
This got rid of all the good organizers and true-blue union types and left a power vacuum, which was filled by the opportunists, many of them criminal, who saw money to be made. This is when unions began to decline, resulting in their murder at the hands of Ronnie Raygun and the fascists.
Tom3
· 1 year ago
Now I have a reason to refuse to drink Coors AND Bud. And since Miller is now made by Coors, they're reich wingnuts too.
I'm sticking to microbrews and imports. Budweiser is horse piss anyway.
If Obama becomes president, the Clintons income will drop substantially.
Tom3
· 1 year ago
"Why do Unions hate trade so much?" - Shoelimpy who loves Chimpy.
Unions don't hate trade, they hate unfair trade like NAFTA. Their real beef with Mark Penn has nothing to do with Colombia. It has to do with the fact that Penn has a history of union-busting activities and is a real scumbag.
Mark Penn has Blackwater for a customer. He's a real fuckhead.
High Crimes & Misdemeanors
· 1 year ago
Sorry, off topic: but there are more important things then watching this puppet show.
Are you listening to Sam Seder on Air America??
The United States of America = A Rouge Nation
Let them hang for their high crimes and misdemeanors!!!!!!
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
Tom3 Now I have a reason to refuse to drink Coors AND Bud. And since Miller is now made by Coors, they're reich wingnuts too.
I'm sticking to microbrews and imports. Budweiser is horse piss anyway. ---
happy hour at Pecs... $6.00 Stella pitchers.
...and it doesn't taste like pisswater... umm... I mean bud/miller/coors/[put your own American mass produced beer HERE]
.
Tom3
· 1 year ago
Looks like the Clintons have done fine while the rest of us have suffered through Chimpynomics.
I don't think a multimillionaire like Hillary can lead the country because she is out of touch with the day-to-day realities working Americans face.
She's in a bubble just like Chimpy. All rich bastards are.
shoelimpy™
· 1 year ago
America has Blackwater for a customer. Are we all fuckheads?
Tom3
· 1 year ago
The United States of America = A Rouge Nation.
Well, it is true that we spend billions a year on cosmetics... 8^)
High Crimes & Misdemeanors
· 1 year ago
Tom3,
LOL - yes you are correct. my bad. ROGUE is more correct.
My eyes must be a little to rouge right now... ;)
Tom3
· 1 year ago
America has Blackwater for a customer. Are we all fuckheads? - Shitlicky
No, you're a fuckhead. You hate unions.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Unions have changed a lot over the years. I remember the IAM (machinists) used to hang out with us New Leftists back in the day, but they're endorsing Clinton today. AFSCME was the same--it was a fairly new union at the time, and there were a couple who came out against the Vietnam War and such. The unions became almost corporate-like after those years and I suspect more than a few sweetheart deals were made to quiet the workers over the past 25 years.
Frankly, without the left, most unions are pretty tame affairs. I mean, have you seen the kind of union activity that occurred during the 30s? I doubt you will, either. Only around 12.9% of the workforce is organized, with govt workers being the highest % and the private sector, 9%.
$110 million? I want details...Bill is said to have made only $3 million in his Dubai deal, but I suspect most of what he really made is offshore in the Caymans...
High Crimes & Misdemeanors
· 1 year ago
john woo: torturing the child of a detainee, by their testicles is OK if the President says so...... (I've paraphrased)
Rouge Nation????
SarainKC
· 1 year ago
Ok, Jed Report, we need a video that has the footage of the young Wal*Mart lawyer/shareholder touting union busters, Hillary praising NAFTA, Bill giving China preferred nation trading status and now this. She has always been anti-union. Those blue collar voters in PA, IN and NC need to understand if they vote for her they are voting for their own unemployment! A call campaign to all the unions is in order. Fax, email and call. Get the word out while we have time!
jr
· 1 year ago
I want all these corporatists out of our party. Free trade has turned our country into a third world tourist economy with everyone working at a store or a restaurant with all the white collar jobs sent to India and the factory jobs sent to China
Rab
· 1 year ago
Another reason she is just a repug, my union AFSCME endorsed her (ish) disgusting...................
scottinsf
· 1 year ago
Well....it's about time.
And a little too late.
scottinsf
· 1 year ago
Colombia Busboy. C O L O M B I A.
I don't normally take issue with spelling considering my own ability but had to here.
scottinsf
· 1 year ago
Sage24 Today 01:47 PM ---------------------------- That sloth analogy is spot on. Should I give you a plus or minus?
Busboy
· 1 year ago
Follow the money. It's legal for foreign nationals to contribute to pacs. You don't think Bill and Hill have a price in mind to let the Columbian free trade deal go through?
All Comments
Apology accepted. Now go away.
Very truly yours, an ALF-CIO-AFT retired member.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/...
Bill Clinton almost bankrupted the economy in the 90's?
perhaps Penn can help her pack.
Al Jazeera: U.S. B-52 bomber explodes on landing in Qatar.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL043...
Post: Ashcroft Didn't Sign Off on Yoo Pentagon Torture Memo
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/...
GET This out to the media.
Fri Apr 4, 2008 3:38pm EDT
DUBAI (Reuters) - A U.S. B-1 bomber exploded while landing in a Qatari air base due to a technical fault on Friday, Qatar-based Al Jazeera television reported.
The television station did not say if anyone was hurt in the incident at the Al Udeid air base south of the Qatari capital Doha. It said earlier a B-52 plane had exploded.
A U.S. air force spokesman said he had no immediate report of such an incident and would check.
Al Udeid is used by U.S. forces in the Gulf Arab country, which hosted the advance headquarters of the U.S.-led forces in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
(Reporting by Firouz Sedarat; Editing by Jon Boyle)
(dubai.newsroom@reuters.com)
They seem to be sloth like in their reporting. Yawn.
This is a big disgrace for Hillary. For her campaign to be run by Penn, whose connections are questionable, is unheard of. There is obvious conflict of interest, and I hope Hillary never becomes the Democratic nominee, because the Dems cannot afford to lose this election.
1. That Hillary is saying one thing, while double dealing through Penn.
Or,
2. That Penn doesn't think Hillary has a snowball's chance in hell of winning anymore, and he's moving on with other business.
Either way, USS Hillary is taking on water.
From the woman whose husband gave us NAFTA.
That's when Cheney has roids again and is out of Preparation H.
ARRRRRGH!!
She's a corporate whore and a sellout. She will NOT represent the values of ordinary working Americans because she is not one of us.
Don't vote for Hillary unless you LIKE getting screwed by corporations.
She care nothing for We The People.
She is so old school and needs to be reminded that the 90s are OVAH. And so is her run for the presidency that she will not get.
A union that actually wants to spend more on getting people unionized than on wining and dining politicians?
I'll bet you thought they didn't exist.
This new Robber Baron age needs to come to an end one way or the other.
If our fellow disinterested, uninvolved Americans would pay attention it would end in a good way.
However, I know too many of my fellows, and they are for the most part an ill informed, self righteous group prone to working against their own self interests, so I hold out little hope.
The SEIU is like that. But my old union, the AFL-CIO was notorious for spending more on politicians than on recruting new members., and it hurt them a lot.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080404/ap_on_el_pr...
bout time!
hillary's campaign said he wasn't representing clinton in the trade meeting.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/04...
okay... so... why would the Columbians even talk to him then? I mean... WTF?
yeah, like the Columbians would talk to anyone with no real clout about free trade agreements.
LOL!
Maybe you already reported it; maybe I missed it:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/...
DoJ Investigators Probing Whether Goodling Fired Lawyer Due to Gay Rumors
A union that actually wants to spend more on getting people unionized than on wining and dining politicians?
The SEIU is like that. But my old union, the AFL-CIO was notorious for spending more on politicians than on recruting new members., and it hurt them a lot.
Little known fact . . .
Unions did a lot of good for a lot of people before WW2. During WW2, they had to pull back because of the war. After the war, the corporatists passed the Taft-Hartley Act over the veto of Truman.
Taft-Hartley did a lot of bad things for labor, but the worst thing it did was -- in the era of anti-Communist hysteria -- was to force unions to purge all the real lefties.
This got rid of all the good organizers and true-blue union types and left a power vacuum, which was filled by the opportunists, many of them criminal, who saw money to be made. This is when unions began to decline, resulting in their murder at the hands of Ronnie Raygun and the fascists.
I'm sticking to microbrews and imports. Budweiser is horse piss anyway.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/4/155756/9...
If Obama becomes president, the Clintons income will drop substantially.
Unions don't hate trade, they hate unfair trade like NAFTA. Their real beef with Mark Penn has nothing to do with Colombia. It has to do with the fact that Penn has a history of union-busting activities and is a real scumbag.
Mark Penn has Blackwater for a customer. He's a real fuckhead.
Are you listening to Sam Seder on Air America??
The United States of America = A Rouge Nation
Let them hang for their high crimes and misdemeanors!!!!!!
Now I have a reason to refuse to drink Coors AND Bud. And since Miller is now made by Coors, they're reich wingnuts too.
I'm sticking to microbrews and imports. Budweiser is horse piss anyway.
---
happy hour at Pecs... $6.00 Stella pitchers.
...and it doesn't taste like pisswater... umm... I mean bud/miller/coors/[put your own American mass produced beer HERE]
.
I don't think a multimillionaire like Hillary can lead the country because she is out of touch with the day-to-day realities working Americans face.
She's in a bubble just like Chimpy. All rich bastards are.
Well, it is true that we spend billions a year on cosmetics... 8^)
LOL - yes you are correct. my bad. ROGUE is more correct.
My eyes must be a little to rouge right now... ;)
No, you're a fuckhead. You hate unions.
Frankly, without the left, most unions are pretty tame affairs. I mean, have you seen the kind of union activity that occurred during the 30s? I doubt you will, either. Only around 12.9% of the workforce is organized, with govt workers being the highest % and the private sector, 9%.
Some stats: http://www.workplacefairness.org/sc/unions.php
Rouge Nation????
And a little too late.
I don't normally take issue with spelling considering my own ability but had to here.
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That sloth analogy is spot on. Should I give you a plus or minus?