a Billary tag is actually a pretty cool idea.

This isn't unexpected. It's been clear for a while that the Clinton campaign is going to have the best backroom deals because of their role in the party over the past couple of decades. Obama and Edwards are always going to be the insurgent campaigns, and insurgent campaigns always have trouble lining up the big endorsements in the primaries.

One more reason not to vote for Obama (not that I intend to vote for Clinton, but it makes Obama look sleazy).

If some of the members ever actually wanted to support Obama despite the endorsement, his campaign just blew that out of the water.

What an utterly stupid move.

Mr. Hillary's been putting the arm to his rolodex fpr months now. Part of his marriage settlement

I know that
AFSME members know that

All those elected officials who've snapped smartly into line like good little hacks know that

Everyone does

This AFSCME endorsement just more of the Clinton version of Bush 3 Card Monty

Let's keep your eye on the Queen..

NyT

A day after she appeared to struggle to give her views on the subject, Hillary Rodham Clinton offered support today for Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s effort to award New York driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, as her campaign sought to contain potentially damaging fallout from a what her own supporters saw as a tense and listless debate performance.

First Obama questioned the validity of New Hampshire SEIU's endorsement of Edwards. Now he is making similar dismissive comments about AFSCME's endorsement of Clinton. Is there a common theme here? Is this less about the candidates being endorsed by labor or that Obama isn't?

Obama's first promise to voters was a campaign on issues not personal attacks, a new kind of politics. Now that his numbers are sputtering he is attacking the intergrity of labor. Also he is flip flopping and now promising to rachet up the personal attacks against Hillary. What happened to issues? Is the new politcs passe already? For all of the inspiration I felt when I read The Audacity of Hope, I'm guessing the follow up book is the Cynicism of Desperation.

This is hilarious.. So if a woman is a candidate, you cannot ask her questions.. Is this how a presidency shoudl be run.."if you ask me questions.. then you are accusing me".. What a joke..

I am glad that finally people are waking up to see her double talk and double standards. I like her but when I see how she can FLIP-FLOP so well, it makes me wonder what she will do in the future.

There are a lot of women who just stand on the base of a "WOMAN IN THE OVAL OFFICE". No one has a problem to that but be careful who you will put in there. I fully support a woman but NOT THIS ONE. She is double talker and just explains why she remained SILENT when many women were ABUSED by BILL CLINTON. No matter how good a president you are, you cannot EXPLOIT A woman. President FORD was absolutely right when he said BILL CLINTON HAS A SEXUAL ADDICTION Problem and you think HILLARY did not know it. She chose to cover up since she knew that he would be helpful; for her in the political game. Isn't that obvious when they dont even live together now a days. How hypocritical for women when they support a WOMAN who has closed her to those who have been abused and also joked about MOMS as those who BAKE COOKIES..

Someone needs to do the definitive takedown of Hillary's complete sellout of feminist principles. She's now a parody of feminism. When she has one bad debate performance, it's because of sexism. She pretends that electing her would make a great statement about progress toward gender equality in the United States, but she never allows for the possiblity that maybe, just maybe, the real proof will come when someone whose career is not spinoff of her husband's career gets a major party nomination. For her to say that electing her would break the "highest glass ceiling there is" without recognition of the head start she got by inheriting her husband's political apparatus brings to mind what Ann Richards said of George Bush the elder, who himself was a Senator's son--that "he was born on third base and thinks he it a triple." Hillary's hardly better. Oh, and Hillary often makes specific, direct appeals to women to vote for because she is a woman, undermining the feminist position that gender should not be a criterion for job selection.

Back to the main thread here: Bill's connections have helped Hillary. Whether Obama's people should have made that link regarding AFSCME I cannot say; they probably should have ignored it though Hillary's people routinely try to minimize Obama's endorsements, like that of Deval Patrick, claiming it was based on an old friendship and common political consultants.

Finally, I have very close ties to the union community and I can say that Gerry McEntee the president of AFSCME is known as one of the most top-down autocratic union leaders in the country, and his members know that. So the rank and file will vote for who they want and won't give much weight to McEntee. Nor will his E-Board be insulted by Obama, since McEntee buffaloes that board, and they know it.