From the AFL-CIO’s Democratic Presidential Forum in Chicago, I’m Doug Cunningham . . .

The AFL-CIO interviewed candidates for the job of President of the United States and here’s what some of them had to say to American workers.
Senator John Edwards:

[Edwards]: “I believe in an America where if you have to go out on strike no scab can walk through that picket line and take your job away from you, That’s what kind of America I believe in and that’s the kind of America I will lead as president of the United States.”

Senator Hillary Clinton:

[Clinton]: “I want a united Democratic Party that will stand against the Republicans. And I will say that for fifteen years I have stood up against the right-wing machine and I’ve come out stronger. So if you want a winner who knows how to take them on, I’m your girl!”

Senator Barak Obama reacted to criticism about his recent foreign policy statements about the war on terror.

[Obama]: “I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now criticizing me for making sure that we are on the right battlefield and not the wrong battlefield in the war on terrorism.”

Congressman Dennis Kucinich was the only candidate to promise he would abolish NAFTA.

[Kucinich]: “It’s time to get put of NAFTA and the WTO and have trade that’s based on workers rights, the right to organize, the right to collective bargaining, the right to strike, the right to decent wages and benefits.”