Big union comes to Clinton's rescue
Talk about good timing!
One of the nation's most influential unions -- the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees -- came through today with its expected endorsement of Hillary Clinton, easing the pain her camp may be feeling over the first seriously negative debate reviews she has encountered (conveniently aggregated by Time magazine's The Page blog here).
As this item in the New York Times' Caucus blog notes, the union's backing could prove particularly valuable in Iowa, where it has about 300,000 members (typo alert: make that 30,000) and where polls show that the Democratic presidential race remains competitive.
The union may be especially motivated to show its clout in Iowa, where it was embarrassed in the 2004 campaign after its chosen candidate, Howard Dean, went from front-runner to also-ran in a flash after finishing third in the state caucuses.
-- Don Frederick
Perhaps the biggest problem with Hillary is that if she's anything like her husband she's going to pardon him--but he belongs in prison...
In 1996, Sudan offered up Osama but Clinton and Co. weren't interested--See Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize, Mansoor Ijaz, LA Times, 12/05/01.
Tony Blair came right out and said it: "Weapons inspectors in Iraq must be given the time and space they need to do their job," adding that they were only half through in their search for WMDs (coming right before our invasion).
Hillary never remarked about how, "... for years the United States and its alies blocked international campaigns designed to condemn Saddam for his use of mustard and neuro-toxic gases," Saddam Hussein, A Biased Trial, B. Lando.
Wouldn't Hillary pardon Bush; Ted Coppel of ABC reported that, "It is becoming increasingly clear that George Bush Sr., operating largely behind the scenes throughout the 1980s, initiated and supported much of the financing, intelligence, and military help that built Iraq into an aggressive power. Reagan?Bush administrations permitted--and frequently encouraged--the flow of money, dual-use technology, chemicals and weapons to Iraq"; furthermore, according to two high-level CIA officials, Bush knew Saddam had No Weapons of Mass Destruction (See Salon.com, Bush Knew Saddam had No WMDs).
Hillary is totally on board with the Patriot Act; the fact of the matter is that a US government report states that, "... it must be concluded that the damage at the Murrah Building is not the result of the truck bomb itself, but rather due to other factors such as locally placed charges within the building itself ...," Case Study Relating Blast Effects to the Events of April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; yet, Pres. Clinton used the OK Bombing as impetus for passing his own real scary Counter-Terrorism Bill...
...Is it too late for this Union of government employees to change its mind...???
Posted by: Michael L. Wagner | October 31, 2007 at 12:37 PM