"If Palin has two thoughts about foreign policy, she's managed to keep them to herself. Ditto health care. National energy policy. Fiscal policy. You could make a long list, but I'll stop there..."

In a video recorded message to supporters Monday, Sept. 1st, Barack Obama expressed his best wishes on this Labor Day and renewed his pledge to have a worker-friendly presidential administration.

To counter a multi-million dollar ad campaign launched by anti-worker groups opposed to the Employee Free Choice Act, a number of unions and labor-backed organizations like American Rights at Work, have launched their own ad campaign promoting the proposed bill.

This Labor Day, working people are vowing to increase the struggle to end Bush administration and Republican Party policies that have presided over the second recession in seven years and have failed to bring needed relief.

People are ready for a big change away from Bush-McCain politics, according to a new article from Yes! Magazine, titled "Our Own Agenda: 10 Policies for a Better America," which compiles the results of a number of polls and surveys on a host of issues.

Speaking before a crowd of close to 80,000 people at Denver's Invesco Field and accepting the nomination of the Democratic Party for president, Barack Obama criticized John McCain for supporting and seeking to continue the Bush administration's policies.

"For almost half a century, the United States has imposed a trade embargo against Cuba. And yet it sometimes seems barely visible," says an article published Aug. 14, 2008, in the printed edition of the British weekly The Economist.

According to the latest Census Bureau data released just this week, since the last economic recession in 2001, 4.4 million more people have been added to the poverty rolls. More than one and a half million of them have been children.

His speech didn't make prime time TV from the Democratic National Convention, but his story and the promise of how his story could be changed did. Robin Golden is a UAW member who is losing his job as an inspector at Lear Corp., an auto supplier based in Michigan.

Recent polls show that a growing number of voters see a potential McCain administration as pushing the same policies as George W. Bush. But a new Web site, WorseThanBush.org, created by people at the Change to Win labor federation highlights key items on McCain's agenda that would make him a worse president than Bush.

A recent Investors.com online editorial, "Finding Friends On the Far, Far Left," of August 20, 2008, provides a welcome opportunity for PoliticalAffairs.net to remind our readers of where we stand on the hot-button issues in this election.

The last thirty years haven't exactly been kind to the labor movement. It's been a story of slow death, with decades of falling union numbers, stagnant wages and disappearing pensions--all signs pointing toward total oblivion. It's been the era as former UAW President Doug Fraser put so aptly, "The one sided class war."

Speaking to a crowd of over 1,000 members of the Laborers' union (LIUNA) via satellite this week, Barack Obama declared that he would be the "build America President." Obama pledged an investment of $60 billion to create new jobs and fend off economic recession by repairing and rebuilding the country's infrastructure.

The labor rights organization, American Rights at Work, released a video this week of workers turning in a petition signed by more than 60,000 people in support of a formal complaint filed last week against apparently illegal electioneering by the multinational retail giant Wal-Mart.

Charging multinational retail giant Wal-Mart with illegally pressuring employees to vote for Republicans and John McCain in the the November 4th elections, the labor movement and community organizations filed a formal complaint this week with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC).

On taxes, major media outlets again took McCain to task for misleading the public about Obama's plan to cut taxes for working families. In his TV spots, McCain claimed that Obama wants to "raise your taxes" and falsely stated the tax burden would fall on middle-income families.

The truth about John McCain is not very pretty. You can start with the Iraq War, when he made the flippant comment that “as far as I’m concerned, we could be in there for 100 years.” The peace movement has been fighting for a timeline.

On Sunday, August 10, Bolivia held a national referendum to measure the people’s confidence in President Evo Morales as well as the political viability of eight of the county’s nine prefects (departmental governors).

The American nation has an excellent opportunity to change the nature of politics in our country this year. We have a real chance to build lasting alliances that will re-define the political landscape at every level of government and permit us to take back our government by the average citizen.

Daily blogs at the AFL-CIO's site that expose McCain's plan to continue George W. Bush's policies on outsourcing jobs, an unending occupation of Iraq, privatizing Social Security, taxing health care benefits, and more oil drilling combine with the McCain Revealed campaign and the Meet Barack Obama to help educate union members and their families on the issues.