Distorting the DHL Deal

HOPE FOR AMERICA better hope that Mr. Obama wins the White House or the situation of our country and our criminal leaders will continue to spiral downward. The rich will continue to get and stay rich and the rest of us will support them.

Obama for a real change. VOTE OBAMA.

Wow. I guess I can add Newsweek to Fox News as being clearly propaganda outlets for the RNC. Deleting all access to it, will never buy it, never read it, talk trash about it the rest of my life. Try not to be so obvious next time.

McCain pledged to call for a congressional hearing "as quickly as possible" and said he would urge the Justice Department to launch a "thorough and complete" antitrust investigation of the proposed merger.
He also vowed to help provide federal emergency grants and other aid to the displaced workers and devastated communities if DHL ends local operations.
He said he will urge the German owners of DHL to visit with residents of Wilmington.
Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown called on McCain and Davis to use their connections to stop DHL from abandoning the airport.

"I'm personally calling on John McCain to send Rick Davis to Germany to use his considerable clout with DHL . . . to help save these 8,200 jobs in southwest Ohio," Brown said.
McCain said on Thursday he thought Deutsche Post executives should "come here to Wilmington and come here to Ohio and explain the reasons and rationale for their decision." He said he also would "fully support a federal antitrust review" of DHL's decision to contract with its rival, though "I do not prejudge its disposition."
In 2003, Davis lobbied the Senate to accept the proposal by DHL to buy Airborne Express for $1.05 billion. Airborne Express at the time ran the airport and package-sorting facility in Wilmington .

Filings in the Senate show Davis' lobbying firm, Davis Manafort, was hired to help both companies deal with Congress, where objections over DHL's foreign ownership arose. Davis and a partner earned their firm $185,000 for the DHL-Airborne Express work that year, records show. They earned $405,000 more from Deutsche Post for work on other issues in 2004 and 2005, Senate records show.

Ted Stevens wanted to make the deal less attractive by stipulating in a military spending bill that foreign-owned carriers couldn't be used to fly military equipment or troops, but McCain, head of the Commerce Committee, objected. His campaign released a statement, citing the need for "providing the best return to American taxpayers, irrespective of narrow and protectionist concerns."

Ohio job losses over the last seven years are the worst since the Great Depression. I wonder if those 8,000 people are going to think their jobs are "narrow and protectionist concerns?"

It is amazing how QUICKLY Newsweek prints a blog about the inaccuracys of the Obama ad criticizing McCain. How MANY lies has the McCain campaign forged against Senator Obama especially apropos to his recent trip abroad. Newsweek SHOULD ACCURATELY PRINT BOTH SIDES IF THEIR ARE GOING TO PRINT AT ALL. HOW GLAD I AM I DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO THEIR CRUMMY MAGAZINE!!!

The worst thing, among many, about a McCain Administration would be his intention to TAX our healthcaare benefits from employers. We already pay taxes on unemployment benefits, social security (upon retirement) and of course the usual annual taxes -- and GET NOTHING EXCEPT A BIG FAT MILITARY SPEND - BIG GOVT. in essence.

Why not divert some of our tax dollars away from killing human beings across the world and get the 40+ million uninsured some health care? Let's have a national health care system for the poor and those of our population who can't pay COBRA payments because insurance is too high when you're unemployed, and already paying taxes on your measly unemployment checiks.

And now McCain's health care plan gives huge breaks to corporations and big business - typical - and allows employees to be TAXES ON THEIR HEALTH CARE BENEFITS. Wow, how original, how wonderful -- aren't you glad we have the GOP to make the Democrats look so much nicer and smarter?

McCAIN'T AIN'T "THE ONE." He's "The Worst.

Obama '08 '012

Let's print some fact checking on Corsi's book and McCain's ads. McCain's mother suing his ex-wife would make a good story

Funny how you write an article stating that Obama distorted McCain's record, but you don't bother to write one about how McCain is flat out lying about Obama's tax plan, which will lower most peoples' taxes considerably more than McCain's.

The media are clearly applying a double standard to McCain and Obama. McCain can get away with his hateful lie that Obama wouldn't visit military hospitials unless the press was there for a photo op. How much blame can be pinned on McCain's in the DHL fiasco may be debatable, but the Obama ad was based on facts, not on lies. It seems that the corporate media no longer has any regard for facts; they're job now is to find out what the GOP wants the campaign "narrative" to be and then to feed it to the public. Disgusting.

Distortion is one thing. John McCain and his campaign is making outright LIES about Obama and his record. And they are tacitly accepting the libelous and slanderous work of infamous supporters like Courci. These kinds of activities are nothing to have a sense of humor about.

Let us see how John Mccain would respond if someone printed a book containing a pack of lies about his character, religion, family background and beliefs.

General Comment: As a 66 year old, and an Independent, I vote for the person who I dis-like the least. If a person has been in the congress for 26 years, I'll bet he has had a lot of chances to Flip-Flop. Campaigns are funded with money. Therefore; with-out having to be a rocket scientist, a person with a little common sense can figure out where the money comes from! They build bridges to no-where, BUT it takes them 12 years to raise the minimum wage while they raise their own wages 9 times. I consider a politician to be a bigger liat than a car salesman. It doesn't matter what happened to these jobs, everyone knows why they were lost and no-one is going to do anything about it. When we see an argument like this, it isn't just one person to blame. When you get older, you don't remember things as well as you did when you were younger. Don't blame John McCain he has an excuse like me. I admit it, he won't. He is still living in the stone-age, everyone with any smarts can operate a computer. The GOOD news; in about 3 months this will all be over. The BAD news; in about 6 months it will be time to start the '2012' campaign.

"Fact Check"? Not likely!! A statement of "The ads also imply that the DHL merger is a direct cause of the job losses in Ohio, which we find to be both unlikely and unsubstantiated." is a word twisting reach for implication and opinion, not even opinion based on fact. Unfortunately, we voters have to accept the fact that political campaigns are going to follow the historical precedent of skewed messages, but reporting media have a responsibility to maintain at least a bit of objectivity and straightforwardness in reporting. Commentary with so many disclaimers of "unlikely" , "paint a false picture" and "some...are unsubstantiated" is not what I'd consider factual, anymore than McCain ads that call Obama the "Anti-Christ". Please, let's not continue the precedent of the past eight years with continued Rove-Speak under the misnomer of "Fact Check" with more distortion of truth.

"Fact Check"? Not likely!! A statement of "The ads also imply that the DHL merger is a direct cause of the job losses in Ohio, which we find to be both unlikely and unsubstantiated." is a word twisting reach for implication and opinion, not even opinion based on fact. Unfortunately, we voters have to accept the fact that political campaigns are going to follow the historical precedent of skewed messages, but reporting media have a responsibility to maintain at least a bit of objectivity and straightforwardness in reporting. Commentary with so many disclaimers of "unlikely" , "paint a false picture" and "some...are unsubstantiated" is not what I'd consider factual, anymore than McCain ads that call Obama the "Anti-Christ". Please, let's not continue the precedent of the past eight years with continued Rove-Speak under the misnomer of "Fact Check" with more distortion of truth.

You, just like the rest of the mainstream old media are CONSTANTLY making excuses for McCain and giving us reasons why it's OK for him to constantly screw up and flipflop all over the place, yet if Obama runs anything other then the perfect camapign, it he makes the slightest mistake, the media is all over him. Even though the guy is running a perfect and well disciplined campaign compared to the neo-con mess we are getting from McCain, that is not good enough. Obama is faulted for not being able to overcome the tilted playing field setup by the media. If he does, you'll just tilt it more, make even more excuses for the incompetence of the McCain campaign, and continue to fault Obama even though you keep moving the goal posts time after time.

Years ago when The Reoig Party smeared Hubert Humpphrey and made him look gay, I thought the Repig Party stooped pretty low. But as the years rolled by I watched them purfect there hateful , vicious , nastiness. Then it was a Hero from Georgia who lost three limbs in Viet Nam who they made look like a traitor, then it was Kerry and now they are smearing a very intelligent , well spoke Black person with their foaming at the mouth hateful lies . My God America , wake up to these Brown Shirted , Nazi Goosestepping, wild eyed Horde of Neanderthals that are called human, and especially all or the Evangelicals in Sheep's clothing. Thank God for people like Kieth Ol. and Jackie Meretsky.

How is this article saying that the Obama ad is "basically true?" McCain's vote facilitated the purchase by DHL of Airborne, which brought jobs and infrastructure improvement to Ohio. Five years later, they're changing their strategy. How is this McCain's fault?

Almost as stupid is blaming UPS, which will probably need to hire loads of people to fulfill the contract.

Republican caused all this in the last seven years. McCain is a Republican.If the AFL-CIO reports it ,I would believe them first. Rather than a Republican Senator..

obama stay on vacation or just go somewhere,you're a BUG.

nuff said, obama as usual is lying.

At least Obama's ad has some truth, whereas Mccain blaming Obama for high gas prices has none whatsoever. It's the monkey in the whitehouse's fault, not anyone else's.