Biden: McCain helped cripple labor movement

[billyoc]

CASTLEWOOD, Va. (AP) — Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Saturday that Republican John McCain has helped President Bush destroy regulatory safeguards for the middle class in general and the labor movement in particular.

Biden, a Delaware senator, told hundreds of cheering coal mining families at a United Mine Workers picnic that McCain went along with Bush in putting anti-labor, corporate interests in charge of the U.S. Labor Department and the National Labor Relations Board.

"Do any of you doubt that this administration has anything else in mind than doing in the labor movement?" Biden asked.

Biden's visit was the third since June by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama or him to the rural, blue-collar southwestern tip of Virginia, now a battleground state. It hasn't backed a Democrat for president in 44 years.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i7K20RiBJeMQhhTZUST64ABObHjAD93AO7UO0

http://va.aflcio.org/vaaflcio/

[saltpoint]

1. No offense meant to you Virginians but I had to look this town up in

the atlas to find out where it is.

And then we have Joe Biden down in the far SW corner of the state talking unions and labor to a large audience as if it were just one person in a living room. He's so intimate and direct while at the same time so clear and right-on.

Obama's judgment seems to me to have always been very, very good. The Biden pick is one more exhibit in an already strong case.