AP: Obama seeks union's help while Clinton promotes vets issues

[Omaha Steve]

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hLPqTxd4Fe7e5EymHU-kTUgweRDQD908I33O2

By MIKE GLOVER – 1 hour ago

CHICAGO (AP) — How does Sen. Barack Obama spend a day off in his hometown? By urging hundreds of union activists to back his presidential bid in the final Democratic primaries. That meant criticizing Republican presidential candidate John McCain, whom Obama accused of failing to offer "any meaningful change from the policies of George W. Bush."

"This is the most anti-labor administration in our memory," Obama told activists from the United Food and Commercial Workers union, which has endorsed him. "You and I share a vision for our country. We'll have a National Labor Relations Board that actually believes in unions."

The Chicago resident, who had been scheduled to take a day off from campaigning, avoided mentioning his Democratic rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, by name. While contending that "we can be a party that exploits the divisions that exist in our country for pure political gain," he said he wouldn't follow that path.

The McCain campaign responded that Obama doesn't understand the economy and, in terms of causing meaningful change, "his plan to raise taxes during an economic downturn is absolutely the wrong way to do it."

Campaigning in North Carolina, a state with strong military ties, Clinton emphasized her plans to improve life for veterans and said she wants to bring troops home from Iraq "as responsibly and quickly as we can."

"This will not be easy," the New York senator told several hundred people, military families among them. "There are no quick solutions to the dilemmas we face and the consequences that are likely to flow from whatever actions are taken."

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[thunder rising]

1. "as responsibly and quickly as we can." meaning "When hell freezes over, cause oil is BIG money"