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McCain, Campaign Mgr Involved in Deal Costing 8000 Ohio Jobs watch!

youtube.com — Over 8000 Ohio Jobs are "on the choppping block" because John McCain and his campaign manager, former lobbyist Rick Davis, were actively involved in a deal that resulted in control of those jobs being shifted to a foreign corp. In a town hall, McCain's "Straight Talk" omits his and Davis's roles, and the $600,000 Davis's firm earned on the deal.

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  • marabout40, on 08/07/2008, -9/+74That's interesting. He and his campaign manager, Rick Davis, are responsible for thousands of Ohioans losing their jobs, yet their campaign strategy is to paint Obama as a "job killer." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/07/leaked-mc ...

    Nice attempt at projecting your failures off onto someone else McSame, problem is, we're on to you. Nasty, demented, wrinkly old man.
  • TheRhinoceros, on 08/07/2008, -9/+30I read about this on another site, I forget which one, and I gotta tell ya, It's annoying as all hell that this guy can get away with this crap and not be called on the carpet for it. I haven't heard word one from CNN on it. Fox has a video that you can open but it doesn't work...all the other links do though. Hmmmm.....

    If not for the more liberal Internet sources, I would not have known about this at all. These MSM Bastards must actually Like McCain.

    http://election-coverage
    • NWTerriD, on 08/07/2008, -3/+1Your link doesn't work. What site were you trying to link to?
      • TheRhinoceros, on 08/07/2008, -3/+13My apologies...it's just a link to my blog. if you actually are interested its

        http://election-coverage.com

        it's part of a blogging network called blog planet. It's Just getting started really, and I'm the only political blog in the network.
      • Daniel591992, on 08/08/2008, -0/+8dugg for being honest
    • thatsmyaibo, on 08/08/2008, -5/+2Yeah it's a shame that the MSM doesn't like Obama...
      • Pittance, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2The MSM likes competition. If they started posting stuff like this so early in the game, it would be an easy win for Obama in under a month. And then what would they have to report?
    • SEN5241, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3Perhaps McCain and Obama (and their respective croneys) aren't the issue with those 8000 jobs that disappeared. Maybe it was better overall for the companies involved that these jobs go.

      It's never easy to tell someone their job is going away. However, companies that can cut unnecessary costs gain the ability to create more jobs elsewhere (and higher-paying jobs at that).

      Always remember this bit of wisdom:
      http://www.despair.com/motivation.html

      If you didn't see it coming, you only have yourself to blame when the other shoe drops.
    • ZenMojo, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3Hey, one daily tracking poll shows Obama 1 point away from McCain and the networks eat it up. An extended poll shows Obama with a consistent 10 point lead over McCain with working class whites and a 2 to 1 lead with all working class voters and you've still got reporters stupidly asking if Obama's "elitism" makes it hard for typical Americans to vote for him.

      Hell, nearly 6 out of 10 polled say Obama shares their values but the reporters are obsessed with the 4 out of 10 who don't think so.
      • Pittance, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2Dead heats make for great news reporting and terrific ratings. Is anyone really surprised? Thanks for the poll data Zen.
  • forthewin11, on 08/07/2008, -9/+42Don't forget, McCain helped this get passed in the Senate. Not only was it Mr. Lobbyist Rick Davis, but it was also John McCain who helped Ohio lose 8,600 jobs.
    • mummbleswers, on 08/08/2008, -1/+18Ur getting dugg down...I smell republican hit squad!
  • IdigObama, on 08/07/2008, -14/+23McSame and his $hit talk is more like it!

    Why people support this cheat and liar is beyond me!
    • PolishLogic, on 08/07/2008, -15/+8Probably for the same reason people support Obama....stupidity.
    • homercles337, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2PolishRetard how about you show what is so stupid about supporting Obama? Seriously, im with IdigObama on this, you ***** idiot McCain supporters are so god damn intentionally ignorant. You dont like Obama because he's black? You racist piece of *****. How about you try to convert us by listing what is so stellar about McSame? Can you do that? Nope, i didnt think so.
      • evilesttoast, on 08/08/2008, -2/+2Just because I and others dont support Obama doesnt make us racist. You are the ignorant one here. I dont support either candidate because its a lose-lose choise. Obama is socialist, McCain wont change anything.
      • homercles337, on 08/08/2008, -1/+3@ evil, do you even know what socialism is? You have shown your ignorance by claiming that Obama is a socialist. There is no left in Amerikkka, you are a testament to that. Enjoy your ignorant backwards existence. The brain-trust of the real america is leaving you and your backwards states behind. Our blue state welfare to you idiots in the red states is going to go the way of the dodo. Good riddance, i say. Im off to Europe where your ilk is dead, or nearly so. ***** off and take whats left of the states with you.
      • edyang, on 08/08/2008, -2/+1@homer: please take a Valium.

        Oh and do us all a favor, stay in Europe and enjoy the long waits in socialized health care, the frequent strikes and paralyzed cities and the riots by disenfranchised youths.
      • motivatedmama, on 08/10/2008, -0/+1Yeah! Everyone knows Americas health care is superb /sar.
        At least the people in Europe have the balls to fight for their rights.

        Where's that glowing endorsement of McCain? ........waiting.
    • muckemuck, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1They enjoyed watching "The Keating 5" and now that they're in the retirement home they want to see more episodes of it?
  • Labyrinth336, on 08/07/2008, -23/+10Obama cost 10k jobs in California
    • SocialPoison, on 08/07/2008, -7/+11You comment cost 20k jobs in Florida.
    • Adgeman, on 08/08/2008, -7/+3Erm, ***** you, two of my friends lost their jobs... you see where I'm going with this...

      Seriously; where the hell did this ridiculous comment gag come from?
      • SoyJames, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1***** you, two of my comments were gagged in Florida.
    • NikoKun, on 08/08/2008, -4/+8I'd like to see proof of that. -_-
      What does Obama have to do with California, he's from IL.
      • Labyrinth336, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2What does McCain have to do with Ohio? he's from AZ
    • boonesfarm, on 08/08/2008, -2/+3While many people think Obama is a little light in the "experience" column, truth be told he is omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, and omnivorous. He is all things to all people, so yes.... we can pin every bad event to Omnibama, Deity of Media. Or, is he only selectively associated with good events??
  • beyondu, on 08/07/2008, -7/+18The whole situation is too bad, but sadly, I'm guessing most American's will have no idea what McCain or his Manager have actually done.
    • bjornski, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2Or his chief financial adviser.

      Or his old S&L buddies.
    • ZenMojo, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2Keating Five who?

      I really can't even talk about McCain anymore without using sarcasm or else I'm going to lose it.
  • kemp34, on 08/07/2008, -7/+13What I don't get is how this makes front page at 119 diggs and there are consistently articles I see with far more comments and FAR more diggs in comparable periods of time that never see the light of the "popular" area. What's the deal?
    • Pittance, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2Kevin Rose is the Wizard of Digg. Don't pay attention to the man behind the code!
  • CaptainShaun, on 08/08/2008, -20/+6He helped lower the costs of production for a good/service that much more than 8000 Americans use, while freeing up labour resources that were charging above their global value.
    • Wartyboskfapped, on 08/08/2008, -2/+13Translation: he gave American jobs to some Chinese.

      Great work, McSame!
      • CaptainShaun, on 08/08/2008, -1/+2If Americans were willing to work for the same price and in the same conditions as the Chinese, the jobs probably wouldn't have been exported.
      • Syrisgone, on 08/08/2008, -1/+1If Americans wanted to work for Chinese pay and under Chinese conditions?

        Yeah, because the American dream is to work in a ***** sweat shop.
      • djholybolt, on 08/09/2008, -0/+1Capt Shaun. You are a very thick-headed individual.

        We as Americans have a better idea of a 'work environment' than the Chinese do. We have a more realistic idea of a 'wage' than the Chinese do. We also have labor laws, something China doesn't. We aren't China. We don't want China's ***** manufacturing. We don't want lead in toys and dangerous chemicals in the plastics we handle on a daily basis.
        Jobs if kept in America can be very affordable and the only reason companies export jobs is to make more money than they already are by cutting the labor in half. They're making money in the first place, they're just greedy.

        Let me also ask.. Would you work under the same conditions as the Chinese for the pay they're offered?

        Didn't think so.
  • midnightgalaxy, on 08/08/2008, -7/+21John McCain will fight for the American worker ... as in fight to have them drafted once we attack Iran next month.
    • damndj, on 08/08/2008, -2/+4Or sending them to India to help train them on his/her soon to be outsourced job.
      • motivatedmama, on 08/10/2008, -0/+1AS if he would spend the $$$ to train Americans when he can have the labor for cheap.
  • cobophers, on 08/08/2008, -3/+3Dah Daaaaaaaaahhhh!!!! And the plot thickens.
    Duh
  • bwjacket, on 08/08/2008, -9/+5He stopped in my hometown last night, check out this pic... looks like he's having a heart attack... http://marionstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=B ...
  • geneikillua, on 08/08/2008, -10/+12Complete misrepresentation on Youtube? Color me surprised. /s
    I grew up in Wilmington, OH, the city where these jobs are going to be lost. First off, it's not 8,000 on the cutting block--it's up to 6,000, which is obviously devastating for the area. But this wasn't something forced onto the city. The city and the airpark worked with DHL and we all thought it was going to work out for the best and really help the area out. What happened is that it started losing money and DHL backed out, which was a bit of a betrayal and it sucked big time. What's going to happen now is uncertain.
    • ouzome, on 08/08/2008, -10/+4word from the horses mouth and you get digged down because it doesn't fit the oblama agenda, go figure!
  • wisefool9, on 08/08/2008, -10/+5I'm sorry, I mean I am a freakin' left-winger for sure, but I have a hard time pinning this on them. If McSame and Davis weren't involved in the deal, it would've been some other schmucks fulfilling their roles. The transaction needed a seller and a buyer more than it needed old Crony and his Neocons.

    That said, Gobama.
    • funkyloki, on 08/08/2008, -1/+6You are correct. But, no matter that any greedy sonuvabitch could have fit this role, it was McCain and Davis. We can't excuse them just because somebody else would have done it if they hadn't.
  • IcewindDale, on 08/08/2008, -3/+3McCain is in the pocket of lobbyists. Thank god for his service in Vietnam because if it wasn't for that his personal karma meter would be at -100. I am not religious, but if i were i would bet there is a nice hot place waiting for McCain in the afterlife, and I'm not talking Jamaica either. If he wins the presidency i am moving to Canada.
  • Bman1013, on 08/08/2008, -3/+1lol, are you kidding me? McCain wins this, probably in a landslide. Do you have any idea how many racists all this media attention mobilizes? There will be a lot of throat-clearing and feet-shuffling in November. Anybody want to make a bet?
    • ErickStevenson, on 08/08/2008, -0/+0I'm with you, I'm for Obama but seeing peoples reaction in America, mainstream media, and from people I know, they just see Obama as another black dude... ***** the issues, he already has negative points for being black in America, why you think McCain is baiting this issue. I'm still 50/50 and not very confident about people here in the US. If it was possible for Bush to run a 3rd term, even with all this crap about him and Obama was his competition, Bush might get that third term....
      • motivatedmama, on 08/10/2008, -0/+1We set up a voter registration/Obama stand in Mayfield yesterday. That's rural western Ky. Within 4 hours we had given away all of our bumper stickers, registered 3 new Democrats, were asked for details about Obama by two undecided young men from Texas, and signed on 7 new volunteers. Dozens asked for t-shirts or yard signs. We will be setting up every other weekend and canvassing in between.
        There's Hope.
      • motivatedmama, on 08/10/2008, -0/+1I repeat. This is in rural western Kentucky.
  • Enche, on 08/08/2008, -4/+1IT'S OVER 8000
    WHAT 8000...so what vegeta
    idk bro
  • BrendanSheehan, on 08/08/2008, -3/+6Damn, mccunt.com is taken

    http://mccunt.com/

    (and no, it's not my site)
  • dunderballer, on 08/08/2008, -2/+4McCain knows this could be deadly for him. An hour ago it was released that he is backpedaling already by calling for an antitrust investigation for the deal he lobbied for. Who is the flip flopper now?
    http://www.daytondailynews.com/b/content/oh/story/ ...
  • roho76, on 08/08/2008, -1/+13He was owned by Paris Hilton. Nuf said.

    I think I actually have a thimble full of respect for her now.
    • rock774, on 08/08/2008, -3/+2Paris is a Douche Bag
      • damndj, on 08/08/2008, -1/+3but she did it from memory and it only took 4 takes.
  • AsylumAleikum, on 08/08/2008, -7/+7*****. McCain was not involved in the DHL/UPS deal.
  • catfish182, on 08/08/2008, -2/+4looks like Ohio here will vote Dem this november
    • ZombieSociety, on 08/08/2008, -2/+1Yeah, don't hold your breath on THAT one. Ohio is full of people like my grandmother who don't want to vote for a terrorist who will turn America into a third-world country where they'll cut your head off for speaking.

      That's what people here ***** believe.
      • ErickStevenson, on 08/08/2008, -0/+0Wow that's a scary place to live....
    • catfish182, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1wow, is that what it is like there?

      Considering that I live in franklin county who has voted dem for the past 2 president elections. Maybe not the rest of ohio but my county has.
  • ScotchInBox, on 08/08/2008, -1/+6I was a huge McCain supporter but when he got on his knees for the right-wing religious zealots, it was like - "Oh yeah - now I remember - he was entrenched in the whole S&L crisis..." Pathetic.

    And his flip-flops? Unbelievable.

    And then the law he sponsored to make it illegal for municipals to provide free internet.

    It's your vote...
  • dafragsta, on 08/08/2008, -0/+5Didn't I hear about a leaked memo that said to paint Obama as a job killing machine? Oh, the sweet sweet irony.
  • ZombieSociety, on 08/08/2008, -2/+7Oh, GOOD. Because, as my 6-months unemployed ass and, recently, my fired-after-15-years father can tell you, Ohio is just SWARMING with job opportunities!

    ***** off, John McCain, you're only around so people can make fun of you.
  • BotchaMcCoola, on 08/08/2008, -0/+11My friends, if you want jobs, and I mean good paying jobs, then go to Iraq.
    • ultar6, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Rumor has it there will be some good-paying jobs in Iran soon too. If the jobs are being shipped overseas, why not the Americans too?
  • boonesfarm, on 08/08/2008, -3/+5It's amazing that nobody points their finger at UPS, but hey, it's an election year, right?
    The Teamsters have more to do with the DHL job losses than John McCain.
    • homercles337, on 08/08/2008, -1/+2Proof.
    • sodoh, on 08/08/2008, -0/+0I think you missed the bit where McCain lobbied to get it passed and profited from doing so.

      The main point is that McCain is trying to claim Obama as a job killer then straight out lies to a woman when brought up on something he helped make happen.
  • homercles337, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Can any ONE of you single McCain supporters explain why you support him? Just a few sentences that can be verified as true. It seems that the GOP is full of lies and McCain supporters are simply spouting the lies from the GOP. I seriously want to know why you support this guy. It defies logic after the last 8 years. Do you really think that 4 more is a good thing? What good has happened in the last 8 years. Just name one. ONE thing!
    • edyang, on 08/08/2008, -1/+1He's not Obama.

      And 45% of the country agrees.

      You are not in the majority, much as you'd like to think.
      • omegared, on 08/08/2008, -1/+2good that means most still will not vote for McCain.
      • edyang, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Enough will to elect him President.

        Most will not vote for Obama either. I will bet anyone that he will not receive more than 49% of the votes come November.

        Nationwide opinion polls mean nothing. Our system is based on the electoral college system.
      • axel000, on 08/10/2008, -0/+1no ***** sherlock. Go to http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ to find the electoral college projection, Obama is way ahead in battleground states.

        295 to 243 Obama / McCain.
  • Bman1013, on 08/08/2008, -0/+0This thread should be renamed "I "
  • Bman1013, on 08/08/2008, -2/+0Yeah, OK, we give up. Obama wins. lulz.
  • HappyScrappy, on 08/08/2008, -3/+1I'm sorry people lost their jobs, but America has always been that way. The idea is that by increasing efficiency overall, we all benefit. This includes those who lost their jobs. They are presumed to have found other equivalent jobs elsewhere with companies that then do better as we all do better.

    True? I dunno. But this isn't France, this is how things are done here.

    Tough luck for McCain though, heh?
  • jci345, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3I was hoping this would come up on digg. No joke, I work at DHL in Wilmington Ohio. This was a big discussion today between all the employees. I am actually a "temp" there, and they have a hiring freeze going on, because DHL is selling out to UPS. It sucks because im friends with a lot of people who have been there for 10 - 20 - 30 years and their jobs will be canned
    • queenbee93, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Not only will THEY be canned--but as a temp. you no longer have an "ace in the hole" to keep your temp job there either--you will probably be one of the first to go and now your friends will not be able to put in a good word for you either, since they will no longer have jobs there.

      • jci345, on 08/08/2008, -0/+0Yeah, it sucks. The ratio of temps to full time there is like 70/30. 70% being temps. At least thats how it is in my department. We've all pretty much accepted that we are going to be screwed
  • Blankcheque, on 08/08/2008, -1/+1Who the hell cares about McCain?

    What the hell is Obama going to do once he's in office? That's more important then how woefully crooked McCain's campaign and terms in government. We all know he will win.

    Hold his feet to the fire like he's asked us to do as our duty as concerned citizens!
    • axel000, on 08/10/2008, -0/+1I suggest going to www.barackobama.com to find out. In brief summary, you're going to see taxes raised for those making over $250k a year. You're going to see exotic military spending (stealth, nukes etc.) cut back. You're going to see the $200bn a year spent in iraq cut off. You're going to see this money going into building new industry - solar, wind, tidal, ethanol, hydrogen etc. power. You're going to see our roads and bridges fixed.

      Sounds like a plan to me. But don't trust me, go read for yourself. Under the last eight years of republicanism, executive pay has gone from 50 x average employee salary to 260 x average employee salary. Your CEO is making on average 260 times what you make. Fun huh ? Its time for America to work for regular Americans too. Don't vote Republican.


  • Blankcheque, on 08/08/2008, -1/+2Who the hell cares about McCain?

    What the hell is Obama going to do once he's in office? That's more important then how woefully crooked McCain's campaign and terms in government are/were. We all know he will not win the election.

    Hold Obamas feet to the fire like he's asked us to do as our duty as concerned citizens!
  • tehxen3, on 08/08/2008, -1/+1So should we ban cars so people making horse carriages can still have work?
    Now probably 10,000 chinese have work and these people can find new ones. People who own the company can do whatever the ***** they want, their employers don't owe them a thing.
    This is how global economy retools itself to be more efficient. If capitalism doesn't work, how come every country that's not capitalist is poor as ***** and starving?
  • kyle00teg, on 08/08/2008, -0/+0I work hard for the American working man, because that's what I am, and that's who I care about
  • JaXaL, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2McCunt is an idiot.
    No, you are an idiot.
    Your mother.
    Checkmate.
  • banderwocky, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1John Sidney "Job Killer" McCain III. Don't worry about him though, he has his Black Centurion Card to help him out.
  • amightywind, on 08/08/2008, -5/+1Maybe Mr. Davis is just fulfilling B. Hussein Obama's vision of America as a better world citizen in giving those wretches overseas a job. Obama's carbon tax will get rid of the jobs anyway.
    • banderwocky, on 08/08/2008, -1/+2So Davis, McCains campaign manager is actually working for Obama? That's the worst campaign strategy ever how does this even make any sense to you? Davis and McCain got rid of all those jobs and it's someone elses fault? You might as well blame God.
    • omegared, on 08/08/2008, -1/+2ya but McCain supports a carbon tax.
  • axel000, on 08/10/2008, -0/+1LOL @ Republican supporters still thinking the Republicans protect jobs. Get a grip. We have had TWO RECESSIONS under Bush. We have the worst unemployment in six years - oh yeah, that was under Bush too. Under Gore/Clinton we had the longest and greatest period of economic expansion in the country's history.

    The Democrats know how to run this country well, the Republicans know how to get their friends rich and line their pockets. Meanwhile most of their voters are worse off and don't even connect the dots.

    LOL
    • TheTexasHeat, on 08/12/2008, -0/+0There are a couple of different reasons that Republicans were able to get the working class vote to turn their direction. What once was Democrat is now Republican for 2 important reasons. Republicans found 3 things that were even more important to 'working class' ie, low to middle class voters, than money. Religion, a generic redefined Patriotism, and safety of their families. There is one thing that can tie all 3 together in a nice pretty bow. It is called Fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of something different, fear of going to hell, etc etc.

      Sadly, many people who are now voting Republican don't have the education level of some of their party members. They can't see that Republicans have taken 3 relatively important and positive concerns/issues and have turned them on their head to abuse them and scare you.

      Though the basis for religion is to help guide people to becoming a better husband/wife, father/mother, and treat others as you would like to be treated, organized religion has been used to control people for thousands of years and wage a majority of the wars during the brief history of modern man.

      Patriotism has been totally co-opted into something unrecognizable. Patriotism ie love of one's country doesn't mean to turn a blind eye when one's country is going down a path that you do not feel is right. And yet, many of these now Republican voters feel that if you question what our leaders are doing with our country's assets(people, money, ideas) then you are unpatriotic. One should only watch the recent Discovery Channel series on China featuring Ted Koppel to see that there are many Chinese who are also turning a blind eye to their country's human rights issues because they too are confusing patriotism for their country with trust in their government.

      Finally, the safety of your family is a true concern for anyone. It is a deep underlying feeling. And because of that, Republicans have been able to do a very good job of feeding the fear that if you vote D, then your family could be in the line of fire soon. Little do they tell you that it will be your lower income to middle class family that will actually have their sons and daughters serve and protect the country. And when they do, that fear of the safety for your family has now become real, because your boy is now flying to Iraq to fight in a war.

      Bravo Republicans for using some basic psychology to grab the votes of some good people who happen to be uneducated on the realities of your governing ideas. Uneducated because you helped to take money away from the public education system for years and years. Sadly, if something is not done this election year, then the cycle will continue.


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