"...unregulated contributions from special interests."

Let us remember he employed 3 registered lobbyist on the 08' campaign.

http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/12/20/163 741/44

He is such a schmuck!  This guy makes me sick!

"Key to electing Democrats" - Unions and Emily's List are special interest groups that want something for their money. Don't put them on a pedestal.

Since Obama is so enamored of Republicans these days, maybe he should enlist the help of the NRA and the anti-abortion lobby and the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth to help get his message out in Iowa.

"Oh, and by the way Harvard guy, unions represent "ordinary people.""

So what? Union membership is plummeting.

Sorry, but unions are hardly a force to be reckoned with.

Interesting to note that the Obama supporters are joining him in attacking labor unions and pro-choice women's groups.

is because he doesn't have any national endorsements from unions or other groups like Emily's List or Friends of the Earth.

Just imagine if he did. But until that happens, he'll gladly take your $2300 check without a complaint.

When a Union puts out a flyer on behalf of Clinton attacking Obama while making it look like it came from Edwards they are not acting in the best interests of the party.  If it wasn't for that type of bullshit actions there would be no reason for this letter.  

From the Huffington Post:

Union members in Illinois and Iowa are denouncing their national leaders as hypocrites for sending out a deceptive campaign mailer aimed this week at Barack Obama. They are livid that the political arm of their 1.4 million member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) financed a mailer to Iowa voters slamming Obama for opposing individual health care mandates - the same sort of mandates long opposed by the union.

"This is definitely hypocritical, absolutely," said Carter Woodruff, an activist with Iowa AFSCME and a former official of the union state council. "It's a desperate attempt to attack [Obama] for unfounded reasons. It's a shame they stooped so low."

The union's direct mail flyer was written in a disguised manner that suggested it came from the John Edwards campaign and not from AFSCME and it slapped Obama for taking what it called "the timid way out, offering yet another band-aid solution."

AFSCME's national leadership endorsed Hillary Clinton last October and is expected to spend millions on her behalf if she wins the nomination.

Woodruff along with Henry Bayer, Executive Director of Illinois-based AFSCME Council 31, spoke to reporters on a conference call organized by the Obama campaign. Council 31, representing 75,000 Illinois public employees, endorsed Obama this month. "Senator Obama has fought like hell for working people," said Bayer. "His health care plan is most in line with that of our national union."

The dissident union members, indeed, pointed out that AFSCME's national health care resolution passed earlier this year declared that individual mandates are "incompatible" with the principles and interests of the union membership.

And in congressional testimony last April, AFSCME President Gerald McEntee also denounced individual mandates as they would force families to "pay much higher prices" for health care policies.

But AFSCME President McEntee is a long-time loyal supporter of the Clintons and though his union went through an extended process of internal consultation before acting it was a foregone conclusion that it would eventually put its heft into Hillary Clinton's corner. He was an early supporter of President Bill Clinton's candidacy and emerged as the most important pro-Clinton labor leader during the 1990's.

Those local unions supporting him are now special interest too?

This guy is a jerk!

I noticed he left out the Fire-fighters unions for Dodd!

Is he parsing these unions now?

The MSM are now at a fever-pitch desperately trying to change the dynamic of the Democratic presidential race.  The lies are coming fast and furious now: "Obama ties in New Hampshire." "Obama rises in Georgia."

But lies they are--this is all the MSM is left with in two weeks to change a dynamic in the primary campaign that has not essentially changed all year.

Senator Obama is all that was ant-Clinton in 2000--the same talking heads, the same rationale, the nation needs to "move away from the Clintons," "choose someone with little Washington experience," "choose the folksy guy over the stiff one."

The nation is now in shambles.  All the world awaits--will America return to the tried and proven "peace and prosperity" years of the Clintons or risk it all on another spoiled-brat neophyte adored by the MSM and much of the blogosphere.

I know that in the end, the bedrock Democrats--not those New Hamsphire and Iowa "indies" and "leaners" will not abandon the Clintons.

And thus the United States will have at least a sporting chance to avoid implosion and rise from the ashes once more.

and becoming more so by the month....

The man hates democrats and our traditional power bases and organizations.

Gee, Obama supporters attacking unions, and Emily's list for not buying the hype. Imagine that!!

According to the NYTIMES tonight, Obama said in Iowa that he is trying to appeal to "Obama Republicans".

...were a union, and UAW in IL,IA,WI & MN have endorsed Barack Obama & real change.  Solidarity forever!

OMFG RED ALERT SOMEBODY ISN'T PANDERING ENOUGH TO UNIONS!!!!!!!

What is this party coming to?  Before you know it, we're going to have politicians trying to represent all Democrats, maybe even all Americans... even the evil horrible bastards who aren't union members!  What nerve!  He must be stopped!

of mydd sucking at straws. Thanks for the laugh.

Sure, he's out campaigning for President.  But, I grow increasingly disturbed by his Senate absences for key votes.  He was elected to serve in the Senate, not run for President.  If he can't handle the one job, how can we expect him to handle the other.

Yes, I know the other candidates are equally guilty of shirking the responsibilities of their elective offices.  But, Obama is MY Senator and he is not doing his job.