Major Union Board Writes Scathing Letter Demanding End To Anti-Obama Attacks

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AFSCME Executive Board Members Send Scathing Letter to Union Chief McEntee Demanding End to Anti-Obama Attacks

Accusations that pro-Clinton union efforts going after Obama are "fundamentally dishonest" and support for Clinton is based on desire for "access to the next Democratic president."

"We were. . . shocked and appalled to learn that our union -- through 'independent expenditures'-is squandering precious resources to wage a costly and deceptive campaign to oppose Barack Obama."

McEntee, a long-time Clinton backer, is not on the ballot -- but he is the line.

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Independents Day for Hillary & Friends -
Tuesday, January 8th, will be Independents Day for Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton's campaign of inevitability has collided with historical American reality. American voters are instinctively annoyed by pretentious politicians in general, and especially those with a sense of political entitlement. When spin with the wind arrogance is added to the mix, only losing integrity becomes inevitable.

Sure, America's electorate is sometimes fickle, blind and gullible. However, we're never genuinely stupid. Since the founding of our country, inside every American is an Independent activist. Having discovered that Democrats and Republicans are the left and right wings of a rotting bird, the proponents of special interest status quo governance will face future electoral cremations.

Despite some early dysfunction and distractions, being an Independent voter has increasingly become this century's best option in national and local politics. Truly democratic common sense governance focused on "We the People" is the core belief of this reemerging political force rooted in our nation's creation. Autocratic bureaucracies, corporate manipulation, and special interest agendas are the poisons being purged by this century's patriots of democracy.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, including several of her Republican contemporaries, has become the iconic political dinosaur trying to function in a world that is rapidly rendering her species extinct. Even the hype of being a woman presidential candidate holds little credibility compared to being the best choice for a more discerning Independent electorate.

Notwithstanding popular perception, Independent voters network, organize, strategize, and are expanding. New Hampshire, like Iowa, is the tolling bell signaling Senator Clinton's attention that politics and politricks as usual died when she tried to politically strangle Independent voters in America's first capital, New York City. New Hampshire's Independents are a major voting bloc. Despite attempts to revise her rhetoric, the inevitability of Mrs. Clinton presiding in the new capital decisively ends on a unusually warm winter's day in the "Granite State."

Dennis Moore
Chairperson,
District of Columbia Independents for Citizen Control (DCICC)
http://www.DCIndependents.org
dennis@DCIndependents.org

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:29 AM on 01/06/2008

Hillary Clinton's Assault On New York Independents -
New Hampshire Independents will also discover and reassess the little-known ugly truth about Hillary Clinton. The U.S. Senator for New York is no genuine friend of democracy, inclusion, and Independents.

Ask members of the New York City Independence Party, Independence Party of New York (IPNY), the Committee for a Unified Independent Party (CUIP), and especially 1992 presidential candidate and Independent activist Lenora Fulani. In 2005, Clinton engineered a bogus bigot-bating campaign to have Dr. Fulani eliminated as an executive member of the IPNY State Executive Committee. Though never substantially confirmed or affirmed by anyone, especially Fulani's many Jewish friends and supporters, Senator Clinton hyped the claim that the New York City Independent activist was an anti-Semite to the state's Jewish voters. Fulani's longtime political mentor and CUIP's veteran political strategist Fred Newman, also Jewish, knew better.

Senator Clinton forced IPNY chairman Frank MacKay and vice chairman Thomas Connolly to dump Dr. Fulani from her executive post before the state IPNY organization was allowed to endorse Clinton's senatorial campaign. The demonization and attempted termination of Fulani, including the effort to disband New York City's five-county Independent organizations, effectively was designed to disenfranchise the thousands of very active and mostly Black New York City Independents Fulani represents. Divide, conquer, and win election was Mrs. Clinton's mission.

New York State's Supreme Court ruled in Dr. Fulani's favor, affirming New York City Independents' right to fair and equal representation as voters within the state. New York State Supreme Court Judge Emily Jane Goodman stated, "While the Court is not going to speculate on the motive for bringing this Petition now...it appears to be more political than philosophical."

History and facts, no matter how hidden from present day campaigns, always focus avid and aware voters. New York City's Independents remember all too well. The once likeable First Lady Clinton of the 1990s is justifiably not a truly democratic, likeable or electable 2008 presidential candidate.

Dennis Moore
Chairperson,
District of Columbia Independents for Citizen Control (DCICC)
http://www.DCIndependents.org
dennis@DCIndependents.org

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:28 AM on 01/06/2008

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Hell I'll add some fuel to this fire, watch this movie.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173

Nothing like a history lesson to set a few things straight.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:26 AM on 01/06/2008

So much attacking to do - so little time!

So much experience and no sense of smell!

So well educated and so little intelligence!

A house devided against itself cannot stand
Her selfish ambition is self defeating and damaging to the family!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:58 AM on 01/06/2008

Not to worry Hillary has reassured us that she can't be influenced. LOL

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:32 PM on 01/05/2008

Excellent. The writers of that letter should be commended. We liberals/moderates/Democrats don't need to tear each other down just to win. The more Democrats who act like this, the more Americans are going to support us.

Can you imagine conservatives calling out their own like that?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:20 PM on 01/05/2008
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Usually, negative ads work. But in this case, it won't.

First, there is not much to attack since Obama does not have a lot of experience/baggage,

Second, attacking Obama is going to backfire because he is black (kinda) and quite charismatic.

This is the end of Clinton, purely and simply.

And she can't even count of Obama getting shot by some lone wolf nut (wink wink) like it happened to Robert Kennedy, because the establishment approves of Obama; after all, he does not threaten to change anything of importance. If he's elected it will be pretty much business as usual for Wall Street, the military-industrial complex, etc, but with a gentler more uniting face. Clinton is done for.

Maybe her donors still have time to ask for their money back...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:01 PM on 01/05/2008
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Right, like he isn't attacking everyone! It's kind of sad. Americans really do like negativity. I guess they see it as macho and powerful.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:56 PM on 01/05/2008

This is the desperate attempts of the dark trying to hold onto power. It aint going to happen. Watch Clinton slink away- THANK GOD

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:02 PM on 01/05/2008

It's the old corrupt class not wanting change.Get rid of McEntee, ask yourselves how can your top guy support a candidate(Clinton) who outsourced union jobs ?ASFCME members you deserve better leadership.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:25 PM on 01/05/2008

I am an AFSCME member and I heard one of these misleading and dishonest attack ads on the radio the day before the Iowa caucuses. I don't think our "leaders" should endorse any candidate without a vote of the membership and I am disgusted that they would do this to Barack Obama, who has proven himself to be a friend of labor again and again, while Hillary Clinton was cheerleading for NAFTA and serving on the Wal-Mart Board of Directors. McEntee has made a lot of bad decisions without consulting the rank and file members and I think it's time for him to step down. He will obviously be a liability to us if Obama becomes President. By the way, the same day I heard that attack ad, I decided to support Obama.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:07 PM on 01/05/2008
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Good for them!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:43 PM on 01/05/2008
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