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bvar22

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74. Spewed the Corporate line all along?

Mon Apr 15, 2013, 05:34 PM

Apr 2013

I don't think so.
Not in Campaign 2008 where Candidate Obama promised to:

*renegotiate NAFTA

*Make EFCA (Employee Free Choice Act) The Law of the Land

*Put on Comfortable Shoes and Walk the Line with Union strikers

*Raise Taxes on the RICH

*Require GMO warnings and Country of Origin Labels on all food sold in the USA

*Raise the Cap on FICA Deductions

He definitely sold himself as a Anti-Free Trade, Warrior for the Working Class,
and sold himself as the Anti-Clinton,
even making statements denying any ties to the DLC.
He made them take his name OFF their website.

....but I guess he was only "Bluffing" then too.

You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their promises or excuses.
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