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Article: AFL-CIO GEARS UP TO PUSH FOR OBAMA.(OPINION)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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Byline: John Nichols
The nation's largest union federation, the AFL-CIO, was going to endorse Barack Obama for president.
Once the race for the Democratic nomination was settled, that was not up for debate. Not since Richard Nixon in 1972 has a Republican made a serious effort to appeal for labor neutrality in a presidential race -- let alone take steps that might justify an endorsement of a party that long ago distanced itself from Abraham Lincoln's view: "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher ...
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