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Sweeney on Biden: We’re More Enthusiastic Than Ever |
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AFL-CIO President John Sweeney says Barack Obama’s selection of Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) as his running mate “has affirmed the judgment it takes to be president of the United States and an understanding of the team it will take to turn around America.”
In addition to Biden’s expertise in foreign affairs, Sweeney says the presumptive Democratic nominee for the vice presidency is “an eloquent defender of working families and opponent of the Bush administration’s war on workers. He’s a man of great faith and modest means who has lived his life in direct contrast to those who support Bush and his would-be successor, John McCain. He’s honest and outspoken and he’s never forgotten his working-class roots.”
Biden will be embraced by working families and their unions, Sweeney says. “We are more enthusiastic than ever about electing Barack Obama and Joe Biden and getting on with the job of changing America.”
The AFL-CIO has endorsed Obama and launched a website, Meet Barack Obama, to educate and mobilize union members. This fall, the AFL-CIO is carrying out an unpecedented grassroots mobilization to elect champions of working families to Congress and the White House.
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Didn’t Biden vote for the illegal invasion of Iraq and to waste billions of dollars on the occupation that has caused the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians? How id that a sign of good judgment? If he had any, he’d be calling for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney. He voted for the PATRIOT Act, which Bush used to attack Longshore workers. As a member of the foreign relations committee, Biden could have done more to stop the funding of the CIA and their terrorist partners in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central America. Biden’s votes for the weak reforms put forward by the Democratic Party are meaningless when he votes to fund an illegal war that is ruining our economy. So what if he supports the right to organize when there are no jobs because of his votes for war?
In response to Paul B all I can say this is what some democrats call balancing the scales! Personally I think Biden is NOT the best choice, but then I did not support Obama either as I felt Congressman Kucinich was a much better, pro-labor candidate!