Barack Obama Addresses SEIU's 2008 Convention

Highlights from Sen. Barack Obama's speech to SEIU's 2008 Convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico via satellite. For more news, photos, blogs and video from the 2008 SEIU Convention, visit http://www.seiu2008.org/

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[arslp]

The most corrupt and vile CHANGE that America has ever seen!!!!! Keep your CHANGE!!!! It isn't worth 2 cents.

[koryatkinson]

This is a joke.... YOU ARE A LIAR! SEIU, the Rathkes, ACORN.... how far is the US going to let this socialist go before we stand up to him?!?!?!?!?

[GuyMontag92]

Giving hope to the hopeless? Oh nooooooooooooooooo! Hope for the hopeless is socialist!

[memiriv]

Our President should be doing HIS HOMEWORK! Mr President m we chose you! Wat a disappointment! Please go back to your office and stop the demagogy.

You need to ACT hands on! It is sickening for me as well as for thousands of people that think alike...May God help us (in God we Trust) and may God help YOU! Lord, you know what to do with this man! I sincerely DON'T KNOW!!!

[AustrianAtheist]

That is only true in theory. Even in a driving economy, without unions, the wages will be really low, because the proletariat has no power and many lack of know how/capital for a start-up. I work in a comp, where union and managment cooperate (plan how to best invest in workers and so on), it is 100 times more successfull than pure dictatorship of the owners

[brk49er]

@TheIAchilles Amen brother, This man is a media creation, that cast him in a favorable light that the unthinking mind cant see past the glitz and smoke and mirrors or really they are uneducated mindless lap hounds that have never had an original thought in there life. So the thought of a shiny brown man giving them promises of sugar plum fairies and handouts really appeals to these pieces of human debree. Maybe thats harsh, useful idiots is the term the socialist that use them like.

[brk49er]

@AustrianAtheist Thats where you are wrong again, govt does play a small role in worker treatment (minimum wages, safety issues) but the market still determines compensation. If I work for you and you treat me like crap and pay very little, in a thriving economy you can work elsewhere or entrapanuers will start their own comp, Unions have turned into the mob. They are out of control in the polar opposite direction for which you argue capitalism can end up, divide the spectrum and ur back at f.m.

[AustrianAtheist]

Reagan gave great speeches too. You are arrogant idiot, comparing your president, with industrialized massmurder. You do not even know, what you are talking about.

[AustrianAtheist]

Look, up "red vienna". Socialism has worked.

Btw. labour unions have nothing to do with marxism/socialism, but social capitalism. Without labour unions, the politians have no reason to care for the ordinary people.

[AustrianAtheist]

You prefer labour conditions in China? Wow, you are such a brainwashed people. it is a shame. Without the union, there would be no middle class. Oh i forgot, it is vanishing in the US...idiots...

[AustrianAtheist]

haha, without labour union, the capitalists will fuck your ass. You think, you are so bright, but you are just a shame, for the people, who have built up the middle class of the USA.