Obama talking Unions and Unity in Detroit now on C-SPAN

[sfpcjock]

He sounds fired up!

[MoonRiver]

1. And ready to go!

Unfortunately, the deflation of the hype is bound to occur. Best predictor of future behavior is past behavior :(

[LeFleur1]

2. Actions Speak Louder than Words.

Enough with the words.

[sfpcjock]

3. It's our job to keep him in contact with what we insist on he should do.

You might take a look at the new input ideas on www.Whitehouse.gov where you can gather support for your ideas, or for other peoples.

It's getting rough for me, too, btw :)

[Edweird]

8. It's his responsibility to follow through on the rhetoric that got him the job.

Try that 'make me' crap at your job. You'd be canned before lunch.

[JDPriestly]

4. Finally. His failure to support the workers in Wisconsin was

extremely disheartening.

Maybe he now realizes that he cannot get elected with the support of union voters.

How can we make sure that he continues to support working people AFTER HE GETS ELECTED.

[Edweird]

5. Talk is cheap.

[sfpcjock]

6. Yeah, but he sounded fired up.

I hope I'm not wrong.

[Edweird]

7. So? He was 'fired up' on the campaign trail before and went on to implement

the policies the campaigned against. No credibility.

[sfpcjock]

10. I'm not sure if you've noticed but this country is now mined by the power elite.

What Dylan Ratigan calls "the extraction". If a dollar is made in this country now, 2/3rds of it goes to 400 "families" in about the top 0.2% of the income structure. I hope you also noticed that the people Obama brought in on day one to fix the bailout were all from Goldman Sachs and the New York Federal Reserve Bank. It's a little different if you get there and Bush has already had the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_government_%28conspiracy%29">shadow government with AT&T mine your email and tap your phone; if the Secret Service can stand down (again) when it is needed most.

I have my disappointments, too. To overdo it on this account is not to understand.

[Edweird]

11. Um, I don't know if you've noticed, but this country has ALWAYS been mined by the power elite.

It's nothing new. They conspired to overthrow FDR, remember? Smedley Butler....
The simple fact is that Obama clearly agrees with RW policy. There's nothing mysterious or difficult to understand about that. His words and deeds have made it crystal clear. The 'you don't understand' card has been played so much it's beginning to look pathological.

[sfpcjock]

13. I'm just saying that there are certain people on this board who are from a different persuasion.

I don't think you are one of them, but I'm fairly new and don't appreciate being taken advantage of :)

[Skittles]

14. he's fired up for votes

and nothing else

[Brickbat]

9. It's the day after Labor Day that I'm interested in what he has to say about unions and union jobs.

[matmar]

12. as he pushes more "free trade" deals that kill union jobs....

actions speak louder than words.

When will Labor see that both parties don't like them?

[FLAprogressive]

15. +1

[sfpcjock]

16. Actually, he could fix the "free trade" deals by imposing a 30% tariff

on Korea which charges us that much to export to them (instead of the current 2% import tariff). The same way he could fix Medicare by requiring big pharma to negotiate prices the way that the GOP bill didn't.

[matmar]

17. he could, but won't. n/t