Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says Republican John McCain is helping President Bush wage war against organized labor. Biden told a union picnic Saturday in Castlewood that McCain has been an accomplice in dismantling protections that safeguarded the economy in general and workers’ rights in particular. Hundreds of southwestern Virginia coal mining families cheered as Biden accused Bush of putting anti-labor, corporate interests in charge of the U.S. Labor Department and the National Labor Relations Board. Meanwhile, he says he also believes National Guard Troops need to receive benefits when they return home…..

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Biden’s visit was the third since June by him or Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to the rural, blue-collar southwestern tip of Virginia. Biden believes the Democrats will take Virginia that has voted Republican since the 60’s.biden.mp3