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The Obama "how rich am I" comparison is lost on me, too. I know that he is doing what other politicians do and that's try to appeal to as many people as you can appeal to. So getting his endorsement from the labor union and some of his initiatives will lead to an attempt to say "I'm not in the top % of this country, I'm closer to the rest of this country than Clinton is."
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Does Obama have corporate sponsors or not? My friend and I were talking about how all of these endorsements can lead to a conflict of interests. Whose agenda do you really push if you're being funded by corporations AND labor unions? The interest of the corporations directly conflicts with that of the labor unions in most regards. Even when workers and labor unions are having their demands met, it is still in the best interest of corporate profit and capitalism. So that is one thing that some of us question when it comes to politics.
The only reason I'm asking this about Obama specifically is because his supporters basically had a parade when he was endorsed by the labor union.
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