Posted on 05/24/2006 5:22:04 AM PDT by KoRn
For all the national attention surrounding John McCain’s two highly anticipated, protest-ridden commencement speeches in New York last week, the Senator actually saved some of his best material for the crowd that gathered on Friday behind closed doors in the back of the Regency Hotel.
In a small, mirror-paneled room guarded by a Secret Service agent and packed with some of the city’s wealthiest and most influential political donors, Mr. McCain got right to the point.
“One of the things I would do if I were President would be to sit the Shiites and the Sunnis down and say, ‘Stop the bullshit,’” said Mr. McCain, according to Shirley Cloyes DioGuardi, an invitee, and two other guests.
The exclusive audience included R.N.C. finance chair Lewis Eisenberg, Blackstone Group co-founder Peter G. Peterson, former Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman and Gail Hilson, the politically influential socialite who has organized events for Mr. McCain in the past.
“What kind of a country do we want to be?” Mr. McCain asked his audience, walking around in the middle of a horseshoe-shaped table as he proceeded to answer his own question.
He cautioned against ghettoizing immigrants, which he noted has brought about disastrous results in France, and criticized elements in his own party as “nativist” before lambasting the punditry of Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs and Michael Savage for helping to “fuel the problem,” according to two of the sources.
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Rush already heard.
He has been heavy on the 'angry spittleing McCain' impressionation this week. :P
Why has he S.S. protection?
On the contrary Mr. McCain, you and your ilk in the senate are the problem.
All of Washington should take McPain's advice.
He needs a giant cup of STFU!
OHH! I'll bet!
Too bad McStain didn't mention FR, though.
In other words, "Shut up guys, I'm trying to pay off my campaign donors with cheap labor".
And, all the while I thought it was the illegal aliens fueling the problem.
I guess the police fuel the criminal problem, too?
Needs repeating!
McCain's 'problem' is that he's an a$$mouth and most Republicans don't like him. Of course they fuel the problem - by reminding people of McCain's actual words and compromises. This comment may have just cost him any chance he actually had. hahahaha
P.S. we don't want to ghettoize immigrants, we support legal immigrants and want them to succeed. We don't want to allow the illegals to ghettoize our communities either, that's why we want them kept out, forced out, kicked out and herded out.
McCain seems to have lost what little mind he used to have. Now, where are the dang strawberries?!?
'One of the things I would do if I were President would be to sit the Shiites and the Sunnis down'
Who's writing for him? Jimmah?
McCain is French for idiot.
McCain just sealed his fate with Republicans. BUH BYE McCain!
Of course. If it weren't for laws there wouldn't be any crime. I suppose he believes we should just give the country away to Mexico. Trying to resist it would just be too difficult
Yeah, he's done. He surely has to realize that by now.
Exactly. McCain, Kennedy, and those other senators who support an invasion of this country by foreign terrorists and peasants (all of them criminals) are the problem.
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