The Public and Private Positions Of Obama

to a Teamsters gathering. We have the audio only from March of a year ago about this consent decree which is meant that federal regulators, basically, are looking over the shoulders of the Teamsters Union 24 hours a day and seven days a week. The Teamsters union would like that lifted. The Teamsters believe that they have at least the general intent of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both to do that.

Hillary Clinton, who did not get the Teamsters union endorsement, her campaign was criticizing Barack Obama for giving something in return for the endorsement.

The Wall Street Journal story that broke this, and the spokesman for Obama says indeed he thinks the consent decree should be lifted. You couldn't quite hear it in that—it was a little vague in that recording. SEN. BARACK OBAMA, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I think you will have someone in the White House you will know and trust and who you have history with. Then you're going to see a change in terms of how we evaluate the agreements. That is what Obama said. Did he say it should be lifted or did he say he would be willing to look at it closely? It sounded like more than that to me, and I guarantee the Teamsters think it was a lot more than that. Obama is selling his soul to the devilLook, whenever you're dealing with the Teamsters, that is the old politics, because they want this consent decree lifted. It goes back to 1989.

But I think that, tape of Obama that we heard is really damaging.

if you listen again, he says if you have got somebody in the White House, you got a friend in the White House, you're going to get results. Fred indicated that is a definition of the old politics. It's exactly what Obama says he's running to abolish and eliminate.
Is it the old? He says I'm not running to play the game in Washington. I'm running to abolish that.

The quote again, to repeat, we may be able to put it on the screen again—he says "I think if you've got somebody in the White House who you know and you trust and have history with, then you will see a change in the terms of how you evaluate the consent decree." Obama says he's not going to have anything to do with corporate lobbyists or corporate special interests, but if it's a union—they are also both in favor of the so-called "Employee Free Choice Act," which eliminates the secret ballot for unions. It's not going to be the end of the old politics. It's going to be different politics — liberal politics.

In his own voice, Obama is undermining the premise of his campaign, which he repeats every six minutes, which only young and naive voters believe, which is why his support is so heavily among the youth. If you are and older, experienced, and knowledgeable voter, you know it's bull.