McCain and DHL
August 9th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
By Donvictimiti
Well, gee, what a shocker someone working for McCain was/is a former lobbyist for DHL. John McCain, helping the little guy…
The Obama campaign signaled today that they’ll be making a major issue of job losses in the big swing state of Ohio — and aggressively tying John McCain and his campaign manager Rick Davis directly to the problems hurting voters there.
The issue at hand involves Davis’ work back in 2003, when he successfully lobbied Congress — winning McCain’s support — to approve a buyout of Airborne Express by DHL. Five years later, DHL is planning to shut down the old Airborne Express hub in Wilmington, which would lead to the loss of 8,000 jobs.
Maversome!
Comment by Merkin on 9 August 2008 at 8:16 am:
Wow….you like to play evil political dominos and your threshold is five years?
Hmmmm….. Bill Clinton f.cked Monica’s tonsils in 1997. Osama Bin Laden knocked down the twin towers in 2001 because Americans are heathens.
GUILTY.
Comment by TRUTH TELLER on 9 August 2008 at 8:42 am:
It is always a sign of a weak mind of a Troll when they post off the subject
Comment by Jason330 on 9 August 2008 at 8:47 am:
TT,
They’ve got nothing beyond Bill Clinton. Have some charity.
As for McCain, he can write off Ohio.
Comment by Unstable Isotope on 9 August 2008 at 9:09 am:
McCain is really disgusting. It’s scary to me that a significant percentage of Americans will vote for him. It seems like the only principle he’s wedded to is the betterment of John McCain.
Comment by Merkin on 9 August 2008 at 9:11 am:
Okay…here’s on topic for you….
Airborne was a floundering has been when DHL bought them. Wilmington, OH was a bad hub for the majority of parcel business today. I remember sending stuff to Virginia and North Carolina and seeing it track through Wilmington first!
DHL’s acquisition gave that company some hope but retarded union flunkies wouldn’t let them change anything, so they had to run it the same shitty way.
After getting rogered by UPS and FedEx for a few more years, DHL is finally doing the right thing and cutting off the dead limbs!
Suck on that, bitterboys!
Comment by Jason330 on 9 August 2008 at 9:25 am:
Merkin
So far so good. Keep your cool and we’ll all be okay.
Comment by Merkin on 9 August 2008 at 9:28 am:
So let me get this straight….Delaware’s Most Erectically Dysfunctional Blogger can post a lame barely-related post impugning McCain, but I’m not allowed to fling it equally askew, then when I do post a direct answer to completely undermines the original feint, the best ya got is “so far so good”
How do you jokers ever get anyone elected?
Comment by cassandra m on 9 August 2008 at 10:59 am:
Oh, snap!
The Obama Team enlists McCain as a campaign surrogate. An ad we can believe in, my friends.
(h/t The Jed Report)
Comment by Jason330 on 9 August 2008 at 11:08 am:
you know the rules by now.
Comment by Merkin on 9 August 2008 at 12:16 pm:
“you know the rules by now.”
Ha! If you had any rules or standards you would have “disappeared” donviti by now.
Even the Teamsters tired of Jimmy Hoffa.
Comment by Delaware's Brilliantest Blogger on 9 August 2008 at 3:40 pm:
donviti is gone, we now have DBB in his place
Comment by Merkin on 9 August 2008 at 3:48 pm:
What are you, that Crockefeller guy, or the puppy clone sex freak?
Stick to one identity we all know you as: BLOWHARD.
Comment by Truth Teller on 9 August 2008 at 4:18 pm:
Let me see if i got this straight John McSame one of the star members of the Ketting Five big S&L scandal. Now in bed with lobbyist who he helped and now has cost people in Ohio jobs.
Comment by Merkin on 9 August 2008 at 4:27 pm:
“has cost people in Ohio jobs.”
I believe the phrase you’re looking for is “helped keep them employed for five years longer than they would otherwise have known.”
Airborne Express was a package-destroying turd that didn’t end up fertilizing anything but the downfall of DHL.
DHL should have waited them out and bought them piecemeal after a complete collapse of AE.
That will teach those stupid Germans!
Comment by Truth Teller on 9 August 2008 at 7:41 pm:
Yes i believe that the German’s did the same with Chrysler. Just keep laying off American’s so the folks like MC Same can claim he is for the working class while in the pockets of the out sourcers
Comment by Merkin on 9 August 2008 at 8:07 pm:
How is it “outsourcing” if a foreign company comes in and discovers the American union workers are incorrigible, loses their shirt in the deal, and ends up giving up on them?
You’re not nearly as bright as your mother brags…..
Comment by mike w. on 9 August 2008 at 8:43 pm:
“It is always a sign of a weak mind of a Troll when they post off the subject”
TT – Merkin wasn’t “off-subject” he was merely making a valid comparison.
Comment by mike w. on 9 August 2008 at 8:44 pm:
“McCain is really disgusting. It’s scary to me that a significant percentage of Americans will vote for him.”
By and large they’re voting AGAINST Obama and not FOR McCain.
Comment by Jimmy H on 6 October 2008 at 8:54 am:
I can’t believe that anyone would have such a low IQ that they blame unions for company’s poor business decisions.
Comment by h. on 6 October 2008 at 9:36 am:
When the decision makers are held hostage by the unions, poor decisions are inevitable.