http://www.opednews.com/articles/McCAIN-PLAYS-RACE-CARD---A-by-Allen-L-Roland-080802-393.htmlby Allen L Roland
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AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka spoke recently on the labor movement's responsibility to fight racism and work to elect Barack Obama. (Photo: Jason Pelszynski / Left Turn Photo)
A desperate John McCain has blatantly played the race card with Barack Obama, much like Bill Clinton did during the Democratic primaries, and its intended audience of blue collar white labor members and their leadership has responded, along with most intelligent Americans, with indignation and disgust : Allen L Roland
In Today's New York Times Bob Herbert writes; " Spare me any more drivel about the high-mindedness of John McCain. You knew something was up back in March when, in his first ad of the general campaign, Mr. McCain had himself touted as " the American president Americans have been waiting for." ~ There was nothing subtle about that attempt to position Senator Obama as the Other, a candidate who might technically be American but who remained in some sense foreign, not sufficiently patriotic and certainly not one of us - the "us" being the genuine red-white-and-blue Americans who the ad was aimed at."
http://www.truthout.org/article/running-while-black This stinging rebuke of McCain's racist tactics was dramatically witnessed in a speech by one of the top three AFL-CIO leaders, Richard Trumka, in early July. He was giving a speech at the United Steelworkers union in Pennsylvania when he directly confronted racism aimed at Barack Obama ~ and it was met with a prolonged standing ovation !
This seven minute video should be seen by all Americans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QIGJTHdH50 Remarks by AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard L. Trumka at the USW Convention
July 01, 2008
http://www.aflcio.org/mediacenter/prsptm/sp07012008.cfmExcerpts:
" I want to take a little opinion poll.
If you think America ought to keep going in the same direction George Bush and Dick Cheney have been taking us in stand up.
Now, stand up if you think it’s time we had a president who’s going to fight for national health care, sign the Employee Free Choice Act, strengthen OSHA, defend Social Security, end the war, and protect American jobs?
FULL story at link.