Biden Rallies Ohio Labor for Obama 2012
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Vice President Joe Biden today officially kicked off the Obama re-election campaign in Ohio, rallying with Cleveland-area firefighters who last week helped to lead a successful repeal of the state’s controversial new collective bargaining rights law.
“Folks, you fired the first shot. It’s not about Barack Obama. It’s not about Joe Biden. It’s about whether middle-class people are going to be put back in the saddle again – because you are the people who make this country move,” Biden told the crowd of 500 in a Euclid firehouse, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Biden appearance, billed as a campaign event, was clearly aimed at harnessing the energy ignited by the pro-union victory and building momentum for Obama in Ohio heading into 2012.
Biden mentioned only one GOP presidential candidate by name, the Plain Dealer noted, subtly referencing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s endorsement of an effort by Ohio’s Republican Gov. John Kasich to curtail bargaining rights in the state. Sixty-one percent of Ohioans ultimately rejected the Kasich-sponsored law in a ballot measure last week.
Kasich “was the only state executive to go after police and firefighters,” said Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, who joined Biden at the event. “How dare he.”
The Obama campaign has plans to open several field offices across the Buckeye State in the next few weeks, focusing first on Columbus and areas south and then establishing outposts in the northwestern part of the state, a state Democratic official said.
Since April, when Obama announced his bid for a second term, more than 6,000 Ohio volunteers have enlisted to support Obama, organizing more than 3,700 events across the state, according to the campaign.
In 2008, Obama won Ohio by four points over Republican Sen. John McCain, but the state is expected to be an even more hotly contested battleground in 2012. Obama’s job approval rating stood at 42 percent in a late September Quinnipiac poll, tying his lowest rating since taking office.
”The fact that the White House deems it appropriate to hold a campaign rally in Ohio where more than 530,000 people are out of work, just shows how out-of-touch they are with the hard-working families of Ohio,” said Ohio GOP chairman Kevin DeWine in a statement.
”The location of Joe Biden’s campaign rally is fitting, because just one week ago more than 202,000 Cuyahoga County voters overwhelming rejected Joe Biden and [Democratic Sen.] Sherrod Brown’s support of job-crushing individual healthcare mandates,” he added, referring to a separate ballot measure by which Ohio voters registered their opposition to a key component of Obama’s health care overhaul law.
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Ok……..so you are going to enlist the mob-like, labor party. That is pretty standard fare for the Democratic welfare party. Goes great with the Chicago mob influence as well.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | November 15, 2011, 6:16 pm 6:16 pm
Like the union vote would EVER think about doing what’s right for the long-term survival of our nation. They will ALWAYS be bought with the promises of rich contracts (benefits, retirement, leave, etc.) paid for with the ever-shrinking paychecks of their neighbors. Obama’s Stimulus I and proposed Stimulus II is all about buying votes. Neither massive spending program will get the country back to Bush-era employment levels. You can sell the rest of the U.S. to China (completely, not just a piece of it) and it still won’t mean a strong recovery.
Posted by: s | November 15, 2011, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm
The acronym for “Same Old Biden” still applies!
Posted by: Common _ Sense | November 15, 2011, 6:59 pm 6:59 pm
So union members vote for us Democrats and when your companies are poorly run we will bail you out with other peoples money and if anyone says anything well cry “racism”
Posted by: ted | November 15, 2011, 7:00 pm 7:00 pm
Why would good old Joe be working so hard for the big O? I read somewhere and if it is true that he may not even be on the ticket. Wouldn’t that make you ease off a bit? Maybe not.Think about it.
Posted by: Joseph R Carreiro Sr | November 15, 2011, 7:08 pm 7:08 pm
Vote out all Republicans!!!!!
Posted by: TMAN | November 15, 2011, 7:24 pm 7:24 pm
I hope you weren’t counting on Obama helping you get a pipeline related job. If Obama cared about American jobs, he’d be working with the pipeline company and Nebraska to resolve issues. There are already 10′s of 1000′s of miles across Nebraska.
Posted by: deanbob | November 15, 2011, 7:44 pm 7:44 pm
Posted by: s | November 15, 2011, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm
Hilarious you blame things on union members earning a decent living wage while the top 1% hoard more of the nation’s wealth than the entire bottom 90% combined. Your scale is terribly skewed and blind.
Posted by: John | November 15, 2011, 7:53 pm 7:53 pm
john@7:53
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Two lobbyists with no prior teaching experience were allowed to count their years as union employees toward a state teacher pension once they served a single day of subbing in 2007. Legislation sponsored by Illinois DEMOCRATS enabled union officials to get into the state teachers pension fund and count their previous years as union employees after quickly obtaining teaching certificates and working in a classroom. One single day of substitute teaching for $93 nets these two union lobbyists a multi-million dollar pension. Living wage for the middle-class indeed… but some animals are more equal than others, right? Especially if the vote UNION and DEMOCRAT.
Posted by: Michelle Shu Jas | November 15, 2011, 8:15 pm 8:15 pm
Posted by: Michelle Shu Jas | November 15, 2011, 8:15 pm 8:15 pm
Again you seem a little short on legitimate facts, and instead have picked out the exaggerated stories.
The truth is that the top 1% wealthy of the population are hoarding more of the country’s wealth than all of the bottom 90% combined – and that includes those you mentioned. That surpasses any cute little stories you’ve picked up from the right wing blogs.
Too difficult to understand? Is a fact too hard to handle?
Posted by: John | November 15, 2011, 8:51 pm 8:51 pm
john wrote:”Again you seem a little short on legitimate facts, and instead have picked out the exaggerated stories.”
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Strange…I see nothing from you to prove those are not legitimate facts. An exaggerated story? There are countless stories like this if you would do your homework instead of relying on what the so-called news media tells you to think.
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“The truth is that the top 1% wealthy of the population are hoarding more of the country’s wealth than all of the bottom 90% combined – and that includes those you mentioned.”
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George Kaiser and all the other oBama cronies in that 1% category thank you kindly for being the useful idiot you are for faithfully and diligently working to divert everyone’s attention from them as they pilfer the pockets of the American taxpayer while laundering a small percentage back into DEMOCRAT campaign coffers.
Posted by: Michelle Shu Jas | November 15, 2011, 9:33 pm 9:33 pm
Posted by: Michelle Shu Jas | November 15, 2011, 9:33 pm 9:33 pm
I was the one pointing to the 1% of the population that hoards more of the wealth than all of the wealth of the bottom 90% combined. You were the one trying to blame it on people attempting to simply earn a living wage and a decent retirement. You’re the stooge as far as I’m concerned.
And yes, you do seem a little short on legitimate facts, and instead have picked out the exaggerated stories. If you have any legitimate sources for your story (or any other legitimately documented ‘countless stories’) please show them.
Guess what? You won’t be posting any legitimate sources because you don’t have any.
Posted by: John | November 15, 2011, 9:43 pm 9:43 pm
john wrote:”I was the one pointing to the 1% of the population that hoards more of the wealth than all of the wealth of the bottom 90% combined.”
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Talk to George Kaiser. Talk to Jon Corzine. Talk to Warren Buffett. Quit whining to me.
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“You were the one trying to blame it on people attempting to simply earn a living wage and a decent retirement. You’re the stooge as far as I’m concerned.”
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I blamed George Kaiser for attempting to earn a living wage and a decent retirement? LOL
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“And yes, you do seem a little short on legitimate facts, and instead have picked out the exaggerated stories. If you have any legitimate sources for your story (or any other legitimately documented ‘countless stories’) please show them.”
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So any story which shows oBama and DEMOCRATS in a bad light is exaggerated. Any story that is not distributed to you by the DNC is not legitimate…. got it.
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“Guess what? You won’t be posting any legitimate sources because you don’t have any.”
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Sorry, I don’t get my “knowledge” from the DNC, so I guess I won’t be posting any “legitimate” sources in your mind….. useful idiot and a stooge….
Posted by: Michelle Shu Jas | November 15, 2011, 10:00 pm 10:00 pm
Posted by: Michelle Shu Jas | November 15, 2011, 10:00 pm 10:00 pm
“And yes, you do seem a little short on legitimate facts, and instead have picked out the exaggerated stories. If you have any legitimate sources for your story (or any other legitimately documented ‘countless stories’) please show them.
“Guess what? You won’t be posting any legitimate sources because you don’t have any.”
Exactly as I predicted. You won’t be posting any legitimate sources for your ‘stories’ because you don’t have any.
Posted by: John | November 15, 2011, 10:10 pm 10:10 pm
Hey Biden: Ohio voted overwhelmingly Against Obamacare last week, too.
Unions don’t create jobs, they only make it as hard as possible for companies to do business.
Posted by: Paul | November 15, 2011, 10:59 pm 10:59 pm
john wrote:”Exactly as I predicted. You won’t be posting any legitimate sources for your ‘stories’ because you don’t have any.”
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Since you are so good with the crystal ball, tell us how many more billions the American taxpayer will lose from the oBama green-scam loans to companies run by his large financial backers. DOE loan program or oBama crony slush fund.
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By the way, I would tell you to search the Chicago Tribune for the story of the 2 union lobbyists who get a really sweetheart deal from the Illinois state teacher pension fund, but that might be a bit difficult for a dedicated oBama stooge. But anyways…. bless the two union guys hearts, they are just trying to earn a living wage and a meager retirement check.
Posted by: Michelle Shu Jas | November 15, 2011, 11:00 pm 11:00 pm
Posted by: Michelle Shu Jas | November 15, 2011, 11:00 pm 11:00 pm
Just as I predicted, no source for your phony story. “Go search the Chicago Tribune” is not a citation of a source. A source cites the publication, the name of the article and the date, not “uhm . . . go search”. You seem a little dim on this – and quite obviously unable to provide any documented facts at all. In fact you present no documentation whatsoever.
Your obsession to attack the President seems to cancel out your intelligent mind.
You won’t be posting a proper source for that phony story, nor for the ‘countless others’ you lie about because you don’t have any.
Posted by: John | November 16, 2011, 1:24 am 1:24 am
john wrote again and again:”You won’t be posting a proper source for that phony story, nor for the ‘countless others’ you lie about because you don’t have any.”
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You don’t want the story or you would have easily looked it up yourself. You only want to attack the story, its source, its authors, and me the messenger. You’ve been trained well. Now you have shown yourself just to be another oBama stooge…. and a brainwashed leftie parrot!
Posted by: Michelle Shu Jas | November 16, 2011, 7:50 am 7:50 am
“George Kaiser and all the other oBama cronies in that 1% category thank you kindly for being the useful idiot you are for faithfully and diligently working to divert everyone’s attention from them as they pilfer the pockets of the American taxpayer while laundering a small percentage back into DEMOCRAT campaign coffers”
Even if you could show this was true the amounts of money involved would absolutely pale in comparison to the gigantic sums being shoveled up the income ladder by Republicans via their government policies and at the behest of their corporate and wealthy masters.
Posted by: numbers | November 16, 2011, 9:59 am 9:59 am
Posted by: Michelle Shu Jas | November 16, 2011, 7:50 am 7:50 am
Same nonsense you’ve posted before Michelle – lies you’re unable to support once challenged. Seems to be the height of your ethics and intelligence. Fail.
Posted by: Dave | November 16, 2011, 2:39 pm 2:39 pm
whats new the labor unions have always been for the democrats but they are on the way out all the years the union has sent me mail telling me to vote for there man i always vote for a man who will be good for all americas not just democrats
Posted by: walter | November 26, 2011, 9:19 pm 9:19 pm