Presidential Conventions

Hi again, I’ve been gone awhile. There was so much going on that I was overwhelmed to write.

I got the chance to go to the National Democratic Convention in Denver. What an exciting event and Denver is a grand city. The city was a buzz with the ticket of Obama/Biden. Downtown was full of people from every ethnic group from sun up to sun down. I don’t understand how this race is considered close but they say it is. Oh, the 84,000 people inside Invesco (Mile High Stadium), they forgot to add the other 15,000+ outside the stadium lessoning to the speakers, music and cheers coming from inside the stadium because of the sound system. Togetherness was everywhere.

I watched the Republican’s Convention. It was not sold out, the hall was small and empty, 90% of the people were white, the men were all in suites (weird), very, very few young people, and the first big decision McCain was suppose to and was in trusted to make was for vice president, he didn’t, someone made it for him and that someone will run this Country if he is elected president plus their choice was a political tactic and not the best for this Nation if anything was to happen to him.

I’m not going to say too much because I don’t want to but if half of you and according to the polls it’s about half see McCain as the best choice for America and you’re not rich then I feel for you. I feel for you because you have some very deep and hidden issues. I feel this group is looking extremely hard to find some type of rationality to vote for McCain in order to hide a bigger problem if you’re not a true Republican. This group is Praying for some small opening to support his ticket. Look people this Country is in shambles, do you really want to keep this group in power? I truly believe you don’t, so don’t. Don’t fall for the lies. McCain will not be running this Nation, the people running it now will be.

If you are a woman and see McCain as an alternative because of your love or militancy for Hillary even though she lost by the laws of our system but you want those laws stretched or altered for you, then I feel for you too. You’re not a Democrat for one; Obama’s platform mirrors hers and McCain’s doesn’t come close, so shame on you for being a sore loser when the party is trying to come together or is it that you have some very deep and hidden issues also.

If you prescribe to the lies coming from the Republicans and you know we need a person in the White House that’s for the people and labor for a change and not big money or big business, then you better get ready to lose you house, business, investments, and family next, because if you lose those things I can bet money that your family will break up because money is the number one hardship on a relationship and if you don’t believe me try living without money, house, car, job, health care, lights, gas and change in diet and see how much love will be waiting for you from your family.

The Democrats need the White House and control of the Senate now. The Republican’s have had their time and blew it (Look at the United States today in its entirety). Let me gives some examples that most of you don’t know. I said I didn’t want to but here I go.

McCain on issue after issue from raising the minimum wage, to un-fair trade treaties, to banning pay discrimination based on sex, to leveling the playing field between workers and bosses in organizing and bargaining, McCain has voted wrong. 184 times out of 219 he was in disagreement with these issues and zero on workers rights. So if you work look out if you have concerns in the work place. There is no doubt he’ll continue the policies of anti-workers set by he and Bush.
With trade, your job will be gone. McCain’s campaign sent out a release supporting the U.S/ Colombia Free Trade Agreement despite Colombia’s murderous record against unionists and union leaders. More than 2,500 were assassinated over the last two decades. (His watch)
When McCain was in Colombia and Mexico don’t forget he reiterated his support for FTA, NAFTA and CAFTA
As for workers rights, the only time McCain hasn’t voted against workers rights is when he wasn’t there.

Health Care, listen to this. McCain would dump the present provisions which let businesses deduct the costs of paying health insurance premiums for their workers as a business expense, so if the company continues to pay the premiums the payment would be counted as income to each worker and taxed. I could go on but why.

McCain wants to privatize Social Security and give it to the stock market. Have you watched the stock market the last few years? If the Republicans hadn’t borrowed from it, it would be find.

I didn’t leave out Obama, but when dealing with workers rights the Republicans filibustered successfully 86 times against him. Some of these bills were to deal with the right for workers to sue for unfair labor practices, pay and sexual discrimination.

He’s walked picket lines with workers as a presidential candidate.

Another Obama bill curbed but not totally halted the influence of lobbyist, limiting their gifts to lawmakers and aides while forcing more specific disclosure of whom they saw, when, why, and how much they spent.

He led the fight for overtime in Illinois when Bush was trying to take it away from people with high school diplomas or military training.

He pushed and chaired legislation establishing a statewide healthcare commission that gathered data from everyone they could to draft a statewide comprehensive universal health care plan which is still being reviewed and most likely to pass.

He wants to take the cap off Social Security. Doing this would let the big money people pay the same percentages as lower income people and would stabilize the program.

Obama has you and me in mind but he needs 60% in the house and senate to crush filibusters. Don’t be fooled people. This time we need the Democrats. We need Obama/Biden, (the nominees). Give them the 60% along with the Presidency and Vice Presidency and let them work for us up, instead of them down.

Gaidi