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VA: AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka about race and Barack Obama

Portion of Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka's moving speech at the VA AFL-CIO's Convention in Williamsburg, Va.  
 
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cloogerdude (10 months ago) Show Hide
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...I am URGING Americans to buy NO union-made American cars, UNTILL unions like the UAW stop blindly supporting Democrats.....I personally will NEVER buy another union-made automobile, as long as they are against everything that I believe in..... if you agree, SPREAD THE WORD!!!.....
creekside37 (1 year ago) Show Hide
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How about these reasons?
Obama's web site reads more like the American Socialist Party than that of the Democrats.
His ideas on fairness and economics are rooted deeeper in the Communist Manifesto than in the US Constitution.
Maybe the unions like that he supports taking our right to secret ballot elections. Maybe, like the government, the unions no longer represent the people and its time for reform. Obama, I wouldn't count on the union vote.
McCain-Palin '08
papalongstuff (1 year ago) Show Hide
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Well doen tubeturds. I commend you for staying cool in the face of this odious rant clothed in (attempted) intellectual sophistry.
papalongstuff (1 year ago) Show Hide
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..And here we have it in a nutshell. godknowtoo spews his vacuous, insulting rhetoric writing off a perfectly legitimate candidate and condescendlgnly and presumptuously transfering his recidivist hatred for progress (8 years too soon) and deigning to speak for the nation.

How many ways can one attempt to camouflage their racism?

The excuses are running short gfodknows, and your rhetoric belongs in the Jim Crow era.

This is the 21st century - wake up, or suffer the fate of the dinosaurs
godknowstoo (1 year ago) Show Hide
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I agree. We don't agree on everything. I'm open-minded. But, like many Obama supporters you seem to be a dreamer and have offer little of substance ( so far ). My vote for him will be as "the lesser of 2 evils". Unless, I get so suspicious and turned-off by his fiercest and rudest supporters I just vote for a minority party candidate.

I felt comfortable with Obama...at the debate. But many of his supporters are very rude and nasty. Can you express yourself politely and intelligently?
tubeturds (1 year ago) Show Hide
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"Politely and intelligently?" More empty rhetoric? A statement of falsehood given in hopes of being perceived as truth?

More "substance" please? An old and frustratingly tiresome argument. What exactly is substance? What can he give you before he's in office?
His plans maybe? They are outlined quite clearly on his website...
His approach to politics?
Any number of uncut speeches can give you that...
What exactly do you want?

FYI this nation was founded on dreams. You may want to remember that.
godknowstoo (1 year ago) Show Hide
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If you were smart you'd share some specifics
about your candidate and never insult the person whose ear you have.
Here's an independent undecided voter who
walks away no closer to Obama after encountering 2 nasty people: you on youtube; Biden on TV.
tubeturds (1 year ago) Show Hide
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You feel insulted because you want to. You implied several times that I was nasty or not smart. While I have simply stated that your rhetoric, your approach to discourse, wasn't constructive.
Having been insulted by you several times, I would be well with in my rights to be equally insulting to you.
You didn't answer the question of substance from above.
Specifics? I assume* you are competent enough to research and find answers on your own. Which says to me, you prefer ignorance over knowledge.
godknowstoo (1 year ago) Show Hide
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Lousy Obama supporter.
Too lazy to offer anything of substance.
When I have a candidate or cause to promote
I offer reasons and not "go research it yourself".
KMAGFYDDMFPOS.
tubeturds (1 year ago) Show Hide
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And the coward awakens.

Is substance the only word you know? And with that, a word you can't even clearly define? Stop asking for knowledge you lazy misanthropic anarchist and do some research.

The name calling started on your side by the way.

Good day to you, coward/moron/lazy-idiot. This is me being nice.

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