[Cicero]

Exactly. The old union leaders were firmly anticommunist and had real working class backgrounds. Their chief concern was more benefits for the workers.

These guys are a bunch of effete new leftists, far to the left of their memberships, whose chief concern is to push abortion and sexual perversion. I don't think that goes over very well with the rank and file. That's why I think Karl Rove is truly stupid not to put more emphasis on the right to life and opposition to gay radicalism.

[JNB]

If defense of Rove, we do not know how the campiagn will play out by next summer, and what the Bush admin will push. But I agree with you 100%, the AFL-CIO has been taken over the by the againg hippies, and all they care about seems to be protection of public employee jobs and liberal social issues. In a few years after Sweeny has retired(or we can hope be thrown out of the job), people will look upon his tenure as a overall disaster.