HOWARD LIPIN / Union-Tribune
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain
addresses the National Council of La Raza conference
at the San Diego Convention Center on Monday.
Posted on 07/14/2008 7:59:53 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SAN DIEGO – Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Monday vigorously disputed his opponent's assertion that he had backed away from his own comprehensive plan to overhaul the nation's immigration laws.
“I do ask for your trust that when I say I remain committed to fair, practical and comprehensive immigration reform, I mean it,” the Arizona senator told the National Council of La Raza convention here. “I think I have earned that trust.”
On Sunday, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, told the same group at the San Diego Convention Center that McCain backed off his plan to appease conservative voters during the Republican presidential primaries.
Obama made similar assertions in recent addresses to the National Association of Latino Elected Officials and the League of United Latin American Citizens. McCain also appeared before those groups.
“I did not use those occasions to criticize Senator Obama,” McCain said Monday. “I would prefer not to do so today. But he suggested in his speeches there and here, that I turned my back on comprehensive reform out of political necessity. I feel I must, as they say, correct the record.”
“At a moment of great difficulty in my campaign, when my critics said it would be political suicide for me to do so, I helped author with Senator (Edward) Kennedy comprehensive immigration reform, and fought for its passage,” the soon-to-be Republican presidential nominee said. “I cast a lot of hard votes, as did the other Republicans and Democrats who joined our bipartisan effort. So did Senator Kennedy. I took my lumps for it without complaint.”
At the beginning of his speech, McCain was briefly heckled be a pair of anti-war protesters. Anti-illegal immigration activists have long denounced McCain's plan as “amnesty.” A group of them picketed in front of the convention center as McCain spoke, as they did Sunday during Obama's appearance.
Dominic Harkay, 40, of El Cajon carried a picket sign that referred to McCain as “Juan McAmnesty”
“He's just pandering to the, quote, Hispanic community,” Harkay said. “He's saying one thing but doing another by trying to shove amnesty down America's throat.”
McCain, who recently returned from Mexico and Colombia, touted his support for the Colombian and Central American Free Trade Agreements as vital to the prosperity of the hemisphere. Obama opposes the trade agreements.
“While it is surely not my intention to become my opponent's scheduler, I hope Senator Obama soon visits some of the other countries of the Americas for the first time,” McCain said. “Were he to do so, I think he, too, would see that stronger economic bonds with our neighbors and the closer friendships they encourage are a great benefit in many ways to our country.”
Pandering to LaRaza. Disgusting.
My father-in-law keeps trying to convince me to vote for this pandering JACKASS.
However, this is politics. grow up.
No joke. Like it or not Hispanics make up an increasing part of the electorate. Why? Part of it is immigration and another aspect is that they breed. Liberal whites are aborting their babies, limiting themselves to one child per couple or having no kids at all.
Do the Republicans want to hand the Hispanic votes to the democrats? Might as well try to find some common ground.
I see no larger threat to America then the growth of purely race based political organizations, having seperate agendas normally centered around policies that are not inherently for the Public Good, this will lead us to a very polarized and dark place...
““I do ask for your trust that when I say I remain committed to fair, practical and comprehensive immigration reform, I mean it,” the Arizona senator told the National Council of La Raza convention here. “I think I have earned that trust.””
If there is any time when McCain is being absolutely truthful, it is when he is making promises to The Race, and its millions of cousins still outside the border.
Spanish, the New English
“However, this is politics. grow up.” and embrace betrayal.
Borders!!? We don’ need no stinking borders!!
Funny. No mention of his commitment to secure the borders. You don’t think they were trying to create controversy do you?
Why John, do you speak to a group with a blatantly racist name? Why no problem with an ethnic group that touts itself to be “THE RACE”? and has a desire to create Aztlan with your state, CA, NV and part of TX and UT?
Why the pandering John? What’s the damn frequency, Johnny?
I believe that he still intends to move forward with his shAmnesty bill.
He’s been quoted as saying it was “misunderstood” by Americans, that it’s not an amnesty plan at all.
I have looked high and low, including his website and speeches, and I find nothing to indicate that he has any plan other than an amnesty plan for illegal aliens in our Country.
Does anyone know of any plan he has for so called Immigration Reform, that does not include a “path to citizenship” for illegal aliens in our Country?
I really would like a well defined explanation from him on what, exactly, he wants to do and how he intends to go about it.
“Dominic Harkay, 40, of El Cajon carried a picket sign that referred to McCain as “Juan McAmnesty””
I wonder what his FReeper handle is? LOL
I’d like to see the original Spanish transcript of his speech. :)
55% of Democrats and 60% of Republicans are against Amnesty. Around five percent of the vote will be Hispanic. The only place the Hispanic vote will matter (to Juan) is in Florida. So Raster points out that Juan was on stage with a racist (Obama), pandering to racists (La Raza) for votes and you want him to grow up?
I think perhaps he has grown up, already, and perhaps you are unhappy with what he grew up to be, a Conservative? The Hispanic community is not La Raza any more than the White community is the KKK. Juan, quite simply looks like an idiot and is begging conservatives to hang him out to dry pulling this kind of nonsense.
If you are equating La Raza to the KKK (and I think you can on many levels), why is Johnny speaking to such a group? Just because the libs don’t treat them the same way they do the KKK, we have to give them a pass and say they are legit?
As another poster (I think correctly) pointed out, La Raza is not the entire Hispanic community, just as the KKK isn’t the entire white race.
Certainly go after Hispanic voters, just don’t legitimize La Raza to do so. It sends a confusing message at best, and loses other voting blocks at worst.
My apologies, your comment was to Norm, but my comment still stands. At least half of this thread is confusing La Raza with the Hispanic community. It just ain’t so, Joe. IF so, when do Obomba and Juan address Stormfront and the KKK? I mean we don’t want them alienating the White Community, right? One makes as much sense as the other.
Hello this is an Obama spin piece meant to damage McCain ! The headline on Drudge report reads “ McCain takes on La Raza”. McCain told everyone that the borders need to be secured first over and over again.Plus he took on the audience and responded to tough questions with the borders must be secured first. Hot Air backs him up on these tough answers .
McCain hasn’t been shy about saying Bush is wrong about other things, and being harshly critical of Bush. In fact, if he did come out and say Bush was wrong to meet with La Raza, I’d be supporting him on this point.
Sure Burt, and I understand that, somewhat. But again, when do McCain and Obama head out to the local chapter of the KKK and straighten them out? The mistake was speaking to those people in the fist place and the content of his speech is irrelevant. I do not want politicians giving credibility to these a$$holes. Here is a little of what La Raza is about:
The spirit and force of La Raza was truly embodied in Texas under the leadership of Jose Angel Gutierrez, a student and [the] President of the Mexican American Youth Organization.” Gutierrez, an open borders advocate who founded La Raza , has stated, “We have an aging white America ... They are dying. ... They are sh-—ing in their pants with fear! I love it! ... We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him.”
Yeah right.
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Juan is concerned about his image with everyone except those that might have actually voted for him.
He spends his time pandering to liberals and socialists who wouldn't be caught voting republican in a million years while doing his best to alienate conservatives.
Can you imagine the reaction from the press if he was speaking to a radical white group called “The Race?”
There it is. The money shot! ROFL
Uh, he wasn't speaking to ordinary Hispanics there bub. La Raza is the Hispanic equivalent of the KKK.
Do the Republicans want to hand the Hispanic votes to the democrats? Might as well try to find some common ground.
Maybe McCain should reach out to racist whites and racist blacks as well.
Obama - you mean the guy who says we should all learn Spanish, and then starts talking in French?
Actually, that’s what he said to conservatives for years.
Apparently this continually needs to be repeated that La Raza is not hte entire Hispanic community. It is the equivalent of the latino KKK.
“No mention of his commitment to secure the borders.”
Relying on the word of PRO-illegal immigration/amnesty border governors to confirm border security is laughable.
HAVE YOU BEEN LIVING UNDER A ROCK??? McLame does damage to himself when he chose to throw his own party under the bus in his lust for power of the office. After all, he's been running for more than 10 years and now it's PAYBACK TIME!
Only ONE candidate actually has stood up to the La RATza scumbags and did not pander to them (told them that illegals need to be deported - not some but ALL need to go home!), but so many here were more than willing to settle for the RINO or FRaud candidates instead for phony media created "electability"!
If Obama has a snowballs chance in hell, my friggin' DOG has "electability" over that scumbag.
I know they’d rather us surrender our principles “one more time” for fear of a pandering LIEberal panytwaste like Osama Obama.
Well, frankly I’d rather be fighting the ENEMY than the SOBs in the GOP I voted for! Time to be honest and face facts....McLame ain’t much better on 2nd Amendement, just sings a different tune when an election draws near. I’ve seen his song and dance before.
Feel free to take your pick:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24785
http://www.gunowners.org/mccaintb.htm
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjIwYjQyOGQ4OWNhN2I0Nzc1MTE4NmVmZWRmMGJjMWE=
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-sugarmann/john-mccains-gun-proble_b_27717.html
http://www.buckeyefirearms.org/node/5746
http://www.nraila.org/issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?ID=150
THINK about it!
If a bunch of ‘white folks” got together and started calling themselves .. “THE RACE” or “THE WHITIES” or “THE CAUCASIONS” .. WHICH Presidential hopeful, do you think would show up at one of Those rally's?
I am scared for this country .. I am scared for my children .. I am scared .. for ALL Of Us!
Who The Hell will You vote for among these two pandering idiots?
Truly Sorry for my nasty words and attitude but election time is coming up and .. I am Scared and dislike BOTH of these pandering scumbags.
(sorry, I did it again. badword.)
FOLKS, DONT VOTE FOR THIS!
You have been warned in advance.
Not that Obama is an alternative, just a higher dose of socialism to the body politic.
yes, but he needs to realize that any citizenship for the present illegals is going to flood our country with millions of more via chain migration...we simply cannot afford that to happen. Does McCain realize that?
There is no avalanche waiting for McCain in the Hispanic community, pandering for their votes by going easy on illegal aliens. This is insanity. He is only going to lose a larger number of CONSERVATIVE votes in the process. But we already know what he thinks; we can STUFF IT as far as he is concerned (feelings mutual, Scarface).
Once the next Socialist (D) or Socialst (R) administration legalizes waves of millions of illegal aliens, the next step will be citizenship and massive voter registration and elections. This will be a territory of big-government, bilingual ballot, nanny-state DEMOCRATS for the next 200 years in America.
Well sure, his good buddy Bush and others in D.C. have allowed in tens of millions of illegals from Mexico. They're bribing them and pandering to them for votes now, but it will eventually result in handing over control of this country to groups like La Raza.
Only the naive would fail see this.
stravinskyrules
Since Apr 14, 2008
How is McCain’s agenda different from Benedict Arnold’s?
“yes, but he needs to realize that any citizenship for the present illegals is going to flood our country with millions of more via chain migration...we simply cannot afford that to happen. Does McCain realize that?”
McCain realizes it...
...he endorses it...
“There is no avalanche waiting for McCain in the Hispanic community, pandering for their votes by going easy on illegal aliens. This is insanity. He is only going to lose a larger number of CONSERVATIVE votes in the process. But we already know what he thinks; we can STUFF IT as far as he is concerned (feelings mutual, Scarface).”
Bravo!
Preaching to the choir, my friend. This is the same old game it has always been, and quite frankly; I don’t think we will see it change.
This is exactly what we were saying when we were trying to get Hunter nominated. We are right where we all said we would be. Alienated and backed into a corner, having to choose from the lesser of two evils and reluctant to give our votes to a man who has stabbed us in the back so many times. Then, on the other hand, not wanting to see this Marxist tyros gain control of the country we love.
I get flamed for saying this, but addressing immigration, legal as well as illegal, is far more important to the safety and preservation of this Republic than the WOT. Not one of these idiots will do the right thing on this issue or develop a stupidity-free energy policy. It seems the Fifth Column is always successful in herding the sheeple in whatever direction they wish. The media favorites are now the nominees. What are the odds? Once again, the same game, different players. Once again the left has someone so distasteful it makes it very hard for one not to vote for McBackstabber. It is always like this of late, and whoever wins we will have moved a little farther left................and so it goes.
well, he’s going to address the NAACP so I guess he’s got 2/3 down.
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