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Kerry Knows Swiftboating

Heck, if Kerry had the brains to attack George Bush’s swiftboat crowd this way, he would be president–after Herman Cain, a member of a Wal-Mart front group, wrote a column for a right wing website likening Democrats to Hezbollah terrorists, Kerry had this to say: “I won’t stand for the ‘Swiftboating’ of working people and Democrats who ask tough questions of big corporations. Wal-Mart has a choice to make. Either denounce the unacceptable and offensive attacks made in their defense, or admit that they represent a proxy in Wal-Mart’s lavish public relations war against its workers. Make no mistake, those who push and prod Wal-Mart to be a decent corporate citizen are standing up for the American worker. Decent wages and affordable health care aren’t too much to ask for from the largest employer in the United States. Fifty-four percent of Wal-Mart’s employees are not covered under the company’s health insurance plan and 46% of the children of Wal-Mart’s employees are either uninsured or on taxpayer funded public assistance. That’s over 700,000 Americans and their families who have been told by their employer they’re on their own. Americans expect better than that from a company with $11 billion in profit and that’s what this broad coalition is fighting for.”

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