Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama: Yeah, John Edwards had it right

The Wall Street Journal report an article titled "Democrats' Attacks on Business Heat Up". It was written by Laura Meckler and Kris Maher in the Weekend Edition.

"The candidates have made broad attacks on corporate wealth and tax cuts they say tilt toward the rich, along with more specific attacks against health insurers and oil companies, among other industries. On Friday, Mrs. Clinton began airing a TV spot in Wisconsin in which she says, "The oil companies, the drug companies, have had seven years of a president who stands up for them.... It's time we had a president who stands up for all of you."

"Both candidates increasingly sound like former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards as they pursue his endorsement and the voters -- particularly union members -- who were drawn to the populist candidate before he dropped out last month. Illinois Sen. Obama got a boost toward that goal Friday with the backing of the Service Employees International Union, one of the most politically powerful labor organizations.

The democrats have done something that I had hoped not to see. They are attacking business with a vengeance. If we can just get rid of business we can solve all of our woes.

Clinton said, “We’re going to end every single tax break that still exists in the federal tax code that gives one penny of your money to anybody who exports a job. Those days are gone.” While Barak Obama has been denouncing NAFTA “for shipping jobs overseas and forcing ‘parents to compete with their teenagers to work for minimum wage at Wal-Mart. That’s why we need a president who will listen to Main Street, not just Wall Street.”

I don’t know what kind of town all of you live on, but my Main Street has all sorts of businesses along it? Any way it appears a major beef between the two candidates is NAFTA (I like to the trouble is more because the US has the second highest tax burden on business which makes us an unfavorable place to locate.)

Earlier I talked about who owes who favors on DAY 1 in the White House – looks like the tables have turned a little against Obama, who now owes the most favors to Unions.

Money raised by Unions for Democrats:
Obama $3.671 million
Clinton $3.418 million


On a different note, Peggy Noonan declares there has been some internal conflict in the Clinton campaign: campaign guru Mark Penn yelled, "Your ad doesn't work!" to ad maker Mandy Grunwald, who shouted back, "Oh, it's always the ad, never the message." Ouch!