John McCain: No Friend of the American Worker...He voted to kill the minimum wage -- 19 times.

[ProSense]

James P. Hoffa

John McCain: No Friend of the American Worker

John McCain told a real howler on Tuesday when he said American workers are the 'fundamental strength of the U.S. economy."

This is the same John McCain who's been kicking the crap out of American workers for the last 26 years. He voted to cut overtime. He voted against extending unemployment benefits. He voted to kill the minimum wage -- 19 times.

He called Social Security a "disgrace."

He supports sending American jobs overseas. "Lowering barriers to trade creates more and better jobs," he said. Yeah, that's what's been happening in my home state of Michigan.

He even crossed a strike line in January to appear with Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show."
So it was amazing to hear John McCain say that workers are the strength of the economy.

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In 1999, John McCain voted for a bill to get rid of safeguards against reckless speculation by banks. That bill became law. It was sponsored by his good friend and top economic adviser, Phil Gramm.

You remember him, Gramm is the guy who said America is a "nation of whiners" facing a "mental recession."

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Do you remember the Keating Five? McCain was one of them. He intervened on behalf of his wealthy friend, Charles Keating, who went to prison for making bad loans, looting his own bank and leaving taxpayers holding the billion-dollar bag. McCain was lucky to get off with an admonishment by the Senate Ethics Committee.

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[ProSense]

1. This is some good stuff

This is the same John McCain who's been kicking the crap out of American workers for the last 26 years.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

2. This is the winning line of attack, imo.

Make McCain defend his dismal record.

[Overseas]

3. John Sidney McCain III -- Country Club First !!

John Sidney McCain III, with $520 loafers, too many homes to count, and a second wife who is an heiress, voted against increasing the minimum wage NINETEEN TIMES?

I think that fact is a good one for an ad.

He's a true Modern Republican. He doesn't think boosting the income of the middle and lower classes helps the economy. He prefers tax cuts for the top two percent. He likes what Bush has done and wants those cuts for the top 2% to continue.

Even though we have seen the Republican economy crash and burn once again.

We need Democrats to clean things up and build back up to the surplus they handed George Bush when he was appointed President by the Supreme Court at the urging of powerful Republicans.

[Forkboy]

4. Get thee to the Greatest Page.

:kick:

[Romulox]

5. Obama is a Chicago School free trader. He doesn't want to invite a comparison on this issue, imo.

[ProSense]

6. Oh BS! n/t

[Romulox]

13. Truth hurts: "Obama's Chicago Boys", by Naomi Klein (URL follows)

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080630/klein

[rndmprsn]

7. good freaking stuff...hoffa hit him over the head with this!

[ProSense]

9. McCain is getting

hit from all corners. Good!

[seabeyond]

8. and says cant pick lettuce for 50/hr, my friend. cant do it. even though mexican counterpart

can do it for much much waaaaaay lower wage an hour.

i dont think he like the american people

and they are the "fundamental" in the economy

[ellacott]

10. This needs to be an ad

[ProSense]

12. Hoffa makes some great points. n/t

[alsame]

11. McCain's trying to reposition himself as a populist with that

voting record? Good luck with that, 'my friend'.