The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review had an interesting story of a former union official that appeared at a rally to support Republican John McCain for president. The man, Joe O’Connell, a former AFL-CIO Local leader, stumped for McCain in Youngstown, Ohio.

The paper quotes other union officials saying that O’Connell’s support for McCain is “a problem.” But, the most absurd claim, from university professor Frank Stricker as well as current union officials, is that it’s all because of racism. If you don’t vote Obama you are a racists, they say!

First of all, O’Connell is quoted as being a big McCain supporter.

“I am a lifelong Democrat, an intelligent Democrat, who is supporting John McCain,” O’Connell said last week as a crowd of 7,000 waved “Another Democrat for John McCain” signs and roared its approval.

And, as I mentioned, the paper quotes union officials as to their worry over O’Connell’s McCain support.

It’s the kind of statement that Pennsylvania AFL-CIO President Bill George does not want to hear.

“It’s a problem,” George admits, “but we are in an all-out effort to educate our members that the Democratic Party is the only one for working families.”

Apparently this union thug imagines that a former head of his own union is suddenly “uneducated.”

George also sees racism as the cause.

George narrows the problem down to race. “There is no question, earlier in the primary campaign the racial issue was there, just like the gender issue was with Hillary for some unions,” he says.

There is another response to this situation from a university professor that sees “racism” everywhere he looks.

Frank Stricker, a history professor at California State University and a union expert, says race is a key to what alienates segments of the labor movement, especially in Ohio and west of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania.

This is the newest meme from the left. If you don’t support the socialist direction that Obama wants to take the USA, then you are a racist. This is the meme that unions are pushing, warning their members that if you don’t vote Obama then you will be thought of as a mean, rotten racist.

It looks like the left is gearing up to have a whole new reason to hate the USA if Obama loses and it turns out to be their fall back position, the one they have used since the 1960s. If you don’t go with us, you are a racist, that position states.

You should read this article. It gives a whole lot of claims and not one single statistic or quote from a “racist” to back up the suggestion that all union folks who vote against Obama are “racists.”

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