McCain on jobs, Obama off trail
John McCain is in Ohio today to talk jobs and the economy, but there's a not necessarily welcome twist.
After a town hall in Lima, the presumptive Republican nominee is to meet with officials about the closure of a DHL shipping site in nearby Wilmington -- the product of a corporate merger worked on by his campaign manager during his earlier lobbying duties.
The Associated Press picks up the story: "In 2003, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis lobbied Congress to accept a proposal by German-owned DHL to buy Airborne Express, which kept its domestic hub in Wilmington in southwest Ohio.
In announcing a restructuring plan in May, DHL said it planned to hire United Parcel Service to move some of its air packages, sending them through an airport in Louisville, Ky., and putting the Wilmington Air Park out of business. Some 8,000 jobs could be at stake, Wilmington officials estimate."
The Ohio Democratic Party released a web ad on the issue.
Democrat Barack Obama, meanwhile, is winding down toward a week-long vacation in Hawaii that reportedly will start Friday. He has private events in Minneapolis and Chicago today. So unless there's a shocker today, that suggests he won't name his running mate until the week of Aug. 18 -- the week before the Democratic National Convention.
Get some rest Barack and maybe even get lucky a couple of times with Michelle in short recharge the batteries and come back refreshed and ready to fight the Karl Rove and Steve Shmidt liar brigade. We are counting on you to bring Change we Can believe in to America. throw the bums out is the order of the day.
YES WE CAN SI SE PUEDE
IT's time that Obama disappears for a little while -- I am so tired of him.
I hope it's a working vacation, there Baracko. Dr. Evil...I mean Old JMac...never rests. He just eats blood to keep his zombie powers charged up. Don't drop the soap, man. He's standing right behind ya.
Keep youtube on, bro, cuz McCain will be making juvenile web ads of you in Hawaii, calling you a "CELEBRITY." So be ready to respond. Don't lose momentum.
BAGHDAD (AP) — Two Iraqi officials say the U.S. and Iraq are close to a deal under which all American combat troops would leave by October 2010 with remaining U.S. forces gone about three years later. A U.S. official in Washington acknowledges progress has been made on the timelines for a U.S. departure but offered no firm date. Another U.S. official strongly suggested the 2010 date may be too ambitious.
This going on while John "the lip" flaps about the need to stay in Iraq. He's wrong about Iraq, he's wrong about energy ans he is about almost everything he yaps about. The energy solution isn't in pumping more oil but in the alternatives. Here is where th wFed dollars should be spent
More info on the DHL layoffs in OHIO (see AP news):
On Wednesday, Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio called on McCain and Davis to use their past ties to DHL to urge the company not to move jobs out of Wilmington, Ohio.
"John McCain through this whole thing has said zero about his connection to DHL," Brown said.
Rick Davis, McCain's campaign manager lobbied for the German conglomerate who owns DHL to take over Airborne Express. This German conglomerate is proposing the Ohio layoffs.
McCain, as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, had a role in the deal too. He urged then-Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens to abandon proposed legislation that would have prohibited foreign-owned carriers from flying U.S. military equipment or troops, which Airborne Express said was aimed at torpedoing its merger with DHL.
The DHL-Airborne deal ultimately went through, despite opposition from competitors UPS and FedEx, which argued that it would violate a ban on foreign control of domestic airlines. DHL is the U.S.-based shipping unit of German postal service Deutsche Post AG.
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