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UMWA hails historic Obama victory... bright future for coal miners & all working families
United Mine Workers of America ^ | November 5, 2008 | Phil Smith

Posted on 11/06/2008 5:59:30 AM PST by itsthejourney

The overwhelming victory by President-elect Barack Obama (D-Ill.) signals “a new day for American coal miners and all working families throughout our nation,” United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) International President Cecil E. Roberts said today.

“President-elect Obama has been consistent in his support for working families and our issues throughout his career,” Roberts said. “He has made it clear that as President, he will continue that support and will make our needs his priorities.

“He will invest in the future of coal in America,” Roberts said

(Excerpt) Read more at umwa.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coal; energy; notsatire; obamatransitionfile
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To: SoFloFreeper
So either Hussein was lying to his buddies in San Francisco or he was lying to the coal miners.

Wrong. The thugs who run the union are lying to their members.

61 posted on 11/06/2008 6:31:59 AM PST by BfloGuy (It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
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To: itsthejourney
When will the bumper sticker come out that says, “Obama lied, jobs died”?
62 posted on 11/06/2008 6:32:27 AM PST by DejaJude
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To: FLDemocracker

Mass hypnosis!


63 posted on 11/06/2008 6:32:36 AM PST by TribalPrincess2U (Is ACORN founder Wade Rathke, a Bill Ayers Weather Underground Associate)
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To: SoFloFreeper
So either Hussein was lying to his buddies in San Francisco or he was lying to the coal miners.

He should invite them all to a cocktail party at the white house so they can meet.

64 posted on 11/06/2008 6:32:55 AM PST by listenhillary (2 legs good, 4 legs baaaad!, ~~ Obama Hussein - You make it, we take it.)
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To: austinaero

His hearing aid malfunction?


65 posted on 11/06/2008 6:33:26 AM PST by TribalPrincess2U (Is ACORN founder Wade Rathke, a Bill Ayers Weather Underground Associate)
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To: Holicheese
Nuclear plant!

Yes, I'm sure you will see the democratic controlled House and Senate promoting more nuclear power and easing regulations to promote the building of new plants. < /sarcasm>

I know they really are "green", especially if reprocessing of fuel was allowed. But we are not talking about a political party that makes decision based upon logic and reason.

66 posted on 11/06/2008 6:33:28 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: itsthejourney

I think we have to admit to ourselves that this issue didn’t work for McCain because he had basically the same position as Obama...he just didn’t express it as stupidly as Hussein.

Next time, we need to nominate a conservative.


67 posted on 11/06/2008 6:34:47 AM PST by B Knotts (Calvin Coolidge Republican)
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To: DejaJude
“Obama lied, jobs died”

We have a winner.

First one to create the Cafe Press site brings home the bucks.

68 posted on 11/06/2008 6:35:10 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: SusaninOhio

The same thing happens on the right. We cling to the words that ring true, while discarding the words that clash with our beliefs.


69 posted on 11/06/2008 6:35:40 AM PST by listenhillary (2 legs good, 4 legs baaaad!, ~~ Obama Hussein - You make it, we take it.)
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To: Holicheese

Well for the sake of my own household, I pray that Obama does NOT accomplish this feat. My husband is a coal mine mechanic of 11 years. His company does not require unions (thank God) however, if there is no mine, there is no machinery.

I would rather not see a thriving and important industry destroyed only to make Obama and the union thugs look bad.


70 posted on 11/06/2008 6:36:51 AM PST by JenB987
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To: SusaninOhio

“The only thing that makes sense is that O’s supporters have some kind of a filter that allows them to read the One’s words they agree wth, while completely filtering out the ones they don;t wish to hear.”

Your term “filter” is apt. The phenomenon at work here is called cognitive dissonance, and it is rampant on the left. The person is not intentionally ignoring the info about Obama intending on bankrupting the coal industry. Rather, his “mind” quite literally filters out that info because it runs counter to his world view.


71 posted on 11/06/2008 6:41:21 AM PST by piytar
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To: itsthejourney
I'm laughing too hard to write.

THIS is the candidate who is going to bankrupt their industry!

72 posted on 11/06/2008 6:44:07 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: thackney

No kidding. They are against wind, oil, coal, nuclear. hydro, etc...
My buddy works at the plant. A tech told him a story about doing some work at an old ladies house. She said that she didn’t like nuclear and didn’t want power from nuclear. So he took out his special wrench and turned the screw so it only got power from the non-nuclear power plant!
She was happy as punch!


73 posted on 11/06/2008 6:44:10 AM PST by Holicheese (Get up Tom Brady, get up! PLEASE!!)
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To: itsthejourney

Hussein is going to “support” the families of working coal miners even as he bankrupts their employers?


74 posted on 11/06/2008 6:45:57 AM PST by arthurus (Old Age beat itself with its own guile and lack of enthusiasm.)
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To: DejaJude
When will the bumper sticker come out that says, “Obama lied, jobs died”?

I predict they'll show up around the time the ones that say "Don't blame me - I voted Republican" hit the streets.

75 posted on 11/06/2008 6:46:06 AM PST by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: mrmargaritaville
or the alternative would be that the US mines go bankrupt due to EPA restrictions and regulations and then the Chinese come in and buy them for pennies on the dollar.

And then ship the coal to China.

76 posted on 11/06/2008 6:46:26 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: itsthejourney

DEMOCRATS?... (Eddie Murphy laugh)....


77 posted on 11/06/2008 6:46:54 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: JenB987

Of course, I really don’t mean that. I just hate these Union Thugs so much. They care about their political power and stealing money from the workers not promoting their industries.

To put out a statement like that after Obama said he would bankrupt the coal industry, crazy!


78 posted on 11/06/2008 6:48:35 AM PST by Holicheese (Get up Tom Brady, get up! PLEASE!!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

exactly-so they wouldn’t be putting money in American company’s pockets they’d be putting the money in the poickets of a company owned by the Chinese army.


79 posted on 11/06/2008 6:54:33 AM PST by mrmargaritaville
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To: thackney

“Do you live off the grid producing your own electricity?”

Is there any other customer for coal in the country other than the power industry?


80 posted on 11/06/2008 6:57:38 AM PST by Western Phil
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