Biden Receives Labor Endorsement!

[demommom]

The Delaware AFL CIO announced their unanimous endorsement of Senator Joe Biden today. The video is on You Tube.
:applause: :applause:

[Egnever]

1. Nice pick up

Grats Joe

[DemoTex]

2. I'm ALPA (AFL-CIO), and we are (wisely) steering clear.

Until next year.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. They Obviously Just Hate Powerful Women

Seriously, I'm surprised that they'd endorse Biden given that he voted to make job-obliterating 'free' trade with China permanent. At this point, I'm beginning to think that nobody ever holds and Dems responsible for their actions - all the matters is the rhetoric du jour.

[JI7]

4. this just refers to the DELAWARE , Biden's home state union, not national

i doubt he will get the national endorsement.

[Tejanocrat]

5. kicked and recommended in response to trollish attacks on a Democratic candidate

[Tellurian]

7. yep, K&R Good on ya, Joe!

[snowbear]

6. Biden did pretty good in that last debate..

He went out of his way to respond to each question with a clear, straight answer and without rambling on..

I thought.. Wow, this is so unlike Biden.

I think someone in his campaign has been working hard grooming him in these debates..

[illinoisprogressive]

8. very very nice!

[ToeBot]

9. And the Teamsters endorsed Ronald Reagan,

Some unions aren't content to wait for the knife in the back, they insist on gutting themselves.

[ingac70]

11. Spot on!

:toast:

[saltpoint]

10. Biden can soar in a foreign policy debate but I've watched him before

in front of crowds of working folks, and he has their true attention.

The polls so far have him well behind the leaders for the nomination, but I wouldn't count him out for a late surge. In many presidential elections since the 70s or so, early polls just aren't prophetic and horses further back in the pack emerge later.

If I wasn't thrilled with the Bankruptcy Son-of-Delaware-Credit-Interests vote, I was VERY impressed with Biden's impassioned stand against John Bolton. Several wonderful Democratic Senators joined him in that battle while the spineless Dick Lugar remained mute. And Biden was among the very first who rolled up his sleeves for that fight.

[TeamJordan23]

12. Biden should have ran in 2004

I think he would have kicked ass back than. I just don't think he has a shot this year. Maybe a VP or cabinet position.

[Larkspur]

13. You mean MBNA Biden who votes to shaft workers and enhance corporate power

won the AFL-CIO endorsement? Glad I'm not a union memeber. Any union who endorses these pro-corporate whores deserver to go extinct.

[justinrr1]

14. Biden is a great friend to labor

unquestionably!

[saltpoint]

15. A strong union family close to us agrees with you, justin.

Their local members are looking very closely at Biden, Edwards, Obama, and Gore (if he jumps in) for the nomination, say they'll support whoever is our nominee, but prefer one of those first 3 or 4.

[justinrr1]

16. They couldnt do any better than Biden

I can assure you of that. He has a 34 year track record of loyalty to labor.

[saltpoint]

17. He's plenty blue enough for me if he winds up with our nomination.

I'd vote for him without reservation, although right now he needs a turnaround in the polls.

He's up in New Hampshire a bump or two, so there's been some movement.

Joe Biden is one of the east coast liberal Democrats my Uncle Charlie warned me against! Charlie was from the old prairie Republican school. He didn't like Democrats generaly and he didn't like east coast Democrats especially.

My first vote many years ago was for a Democrat and I'm still in the blue camp.

[cascadiance]

20. So tell me how voting for the bankruptcy bill helped unions...

... and didn't help companies like MBNA, etc. that were funding his campaigns?

Biden is DLC and I still don't trust farther than I can throw him in terms of leading us out of this corporatocracy. I have to admit I was surprised that he mentioned public campaign financing in the recent debate without being prompted to talk about it, but I wonder if he really would have done so if he were considered a real contender for the nomination at this point. Might be something that he might have to deliver on, and not just be a distracting marketing ploy from other candidates.

[Mabus]

18. Good for Biden

K & R because it is positive news about a fellow Democrat. :thumbsup:

[jillan]

19. Before people call Biden "MBNA Joe"

why don't you take a look at where MBNA comes in at funding him....
and compare that to where other banks come in at funding, lets say the top 2 candidates.
I could very easily call the top tier candidate "Citicorp Clinton".
But I won't.

And about the Bankruptcy Bill - it was not just about credit cards.
The Bankruptcy bill
Rather than putting women at a disadvantage, this bill empowers women. It gives them a say in the bankruptcy proceedings relating to her absent spouse. Once a father is under a bankruptcy plan and he fails to make his support payments, a mother can march to bankruptcy court and ask the court to dismiss his bankruptcy plan. ...

S. 420, the bill we just passed, is so far superior to current law that the National Child Support Enforcement Association, representing 60,000 child support professionals, supports it.

The National Council for Child Support Directors supports the legislation we just passed.

There were many more endorsements listed BECAUSE THIS BILL PROTECTS WOMEN AGAINST DEADBEAT DADS (Or vice-versa)
http://biden.senate.gov/newsroom/details.cfm?id=229883

Sorry to get off track :eyes:

Biden has done alot for the Labor Movement over the years, and I glad he was the first one to get an endorsement from them.
And glad to give #5 rec...

[cascadiance]

22. Sorry, but that "token" argument still ignores that it was a horrendously bad bill for most people!

Obviously, perhaps some women's group threw in their money into the mix along with MBNA so that they could be "excepted" from the other odious effects of this bill, but the rest of us are still screwed by how the state of Delaware treats corporations so differently regarding bankruptcy than it does the average citizen.

http://www.pacificviews.org/weblog/archives/000966.html

[CrispyQ]

21. Am I the only one who thinks he looks like Max Headroom?

;)

[jillan]

24. Not remembering exactly what Max looked liked -

I googled him


and decided that Max looked like a cross between Biden and Tony Snow





:)

[DemBones DemBones]

23. Good. I'd like to hear more from Biden, Dodd, Kucinich, and Richardson.

And Gravel, if he's still in the race.

This business of the media using polls to marginalize more than half the candidates (GOP as well as Dem) is unfair.

Makes me wonder if the polls are bought and paid for to favor the corporate-favored candidates.