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In reply to the discussion: The Obama administration's legal battle against whistleblowers, federal unions. [View all]bvar22
(39,909 posts)this Administration and the Party Leadership has been hostile to Organized LABOR
from the start.
They were forced to show their true colors in the Arkansas Primary of 2010
where the grass roots and Organized LABOR were working the give President Obama the gift he had requested, a Progressive Congress that would work with him.
We were working to replace virulently Anti-LABOR Blanche Lincoln (Senator from WalMart
and the Wicked Witch who killed the Public Option and bragged about it)
with a popular Pro-LABOR Democrat, and we were winning too,
UNTIL,
the White House & Bill Clinton stepped in to rescue the failing campaign of the Anti-LABOR Lincoln,
who had absolutely NO CHANCE of winning in the General Election against the Republican.
White House Rescue of Lincoln's Failing Democratic Primary Campaign
http://www.salon.com/2010/06/10/lincoln_6/
The White House and Bill Clinton gave Orgnized LABOR a beat down in Arkansas,
and then added insult to injury with taunts and ridicule.
Talk about tone deaf!
Ed Schultz on the White House insults to LABOR after the Arkansas Democratic Primary
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/ed-schultz-if-it-wasnt-labor-barack-obama-
One thing about us Union Thugs:
We may take an Ass Whooping from time to time,
but we NEVER forget a Sucker Punch.
You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.
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