Sure, but I thought both were well known. No corporation is going to donate to just one political party. Especially corporations as large as ours are. But McCain is clearly close to Fred. And do you really think Obama's going to align himself anywhere else than o the side of your contarctors?
Smith/McCain
Memphis Daily News - Presidential Hopeful McCain to Speak In Memphis
This was from April 2007
John McCain
When Republican presidential candidate John McCain addresses the Economic Club of Memphis next week, he'll bring to Memphis a campaign that already boasts several connections to the city.
For one thing,
McCain - the Arizona senator who's one of a handful of contenders for the GOP's 2008 nomination - has enjoyed a long friendship with FedEx founder and CEO Frederick W. Smith. McCain's presidential exploratory committee was co-chaired by none other than Smith, a Vietnam veteran like McCain.
Back in 2002, Smith helped throw a party to mark the publication of a memoir McCain co-wrote, "Worth the Fighting For."
And on Monday, the Memphis business icon will introduce the senator at his lunchtime address, to be held at 12:15 p.m. in the ballroom of the Holiday Inn-University of Memphis at 3700 Central Ave
Obama/Unions
Obama clear: He's pro-union :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Lynn Sweet
Obama Supports Pro-Worker Policies—and Union Members Support Obama
by AFL CIO for AFL-CIO July 25, 2008
by Seth Michaels, Jul 24, 2008
In his video introduction submitted to last year’s AFL-CIO Presidential Candidates Forum, Sen. Barack Obama laid out some of his personal history and connected it to why he’s running for president. It’s worth watching again now that he’s the Democratic presumptive presidential nominee. As he said:
I worked as a community organizer for a group of churches, helping to turn around neighborhoods that were devastated by the closing of steel plants. By bringing people together, we set up job-training and after-school programs, and we taught people to stand up to their government when it wasn’t standing up for them. That’s the kind of organizing we need today.
In the video, Obama said health care, good wages, a secure retirement and the freedom to form unions are at the heart of the change the country needs, and he’s continued to focus on these issues in the general election campaign.
This is why the AFL-CIO endorsed Obama last month: because he’s a candidate who understands, cares about and will fight for working families.