Clinton sketches first 100 days, Obama vows to help workers

[MannyGoldstein]

Source: The NY Times

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton outlined an aggressive 100-day presidential agenda on Tuesday and Sen. Barack Obama promised to ''play offense for working Americans,'' both rivals observing something of a lull in an increasingly personal Democratic nomination struggle.

One week before the Pennsylvania primary, Clinton was jolted with a fresh reminder that party elders have no appetite for a campaign that drags into the convention in late August. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said the candidate who trails in the delegate chase should quit by June 3. ''Probably sooner,'' he told The Associated Press in an interview.

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For his part, Obama promised a union audience he would reverse a decision by Bush that effectively lowered wages for construction crews on government projects, and he mocked McCain in the process.

''He seems to think Davis-Bacon is something that comes from a pig farm,'' Obama said, referring to the law that covers wages on government construction projects.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Democrats.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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Clinton's first 100 days, huh? Gee, I don't feel any monkeys trying to fly out of my butt...

Oy gevalt.

[Sadie5]

1. Then why did he call Unions"Special Interests"?

http://www.workinglife.org/blogs/view_post.php?content_id=7527#comment_7538comment_7541comment_7549

[Lautremont]

2. Does "special interests" imply something I never realized it did?

[KSinTX]

3. Perhaps because he didn't?

I went to your link and then to the site's link to DailyKos. In neither of these did Barack Obama name the unions as "special interests." In fact, he only named special interests as "special interests." The union reference was inserted by the workinglife.org blogger.

Memo text:
“Right now groups supporting Hillary Clinton and John Edwards are flooding Iowa and the other early states with millions of dollars in paid ads, phone calls, and mailings. Some of it is negative and even deceptive, and a lot of it is paid for by huge, unregulated contributions from special interests."

Could have been any of the groups supporting either candidate at the time. Unions aren't named here.

[Sadie5]

4. So you say

Got to have links. Not that I'm calling you ab liar, butttttttt!