Hello! McLame! Pass a seperate bill on security!
Posted on 05/23/2007 8:35:30 AM PDT by BornInASmallTown
COLUMBIA, S.C. | Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Wednesday defended the immigration legislation winding its way through Congress, saying the measure is needed to protect the country from terrorism.
"People who grew up in London, people who have spent most of their lives in the United States, have somehow become induced to be terrorists and that argues strongly for accounting for and bringing under control a situation where 12 million people are in our country illegally," the Arizona senator said during one of several conference calls with reporters from early voting states where he is vying for support.
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McCain has been defending the immigration bill in the face of criticism from several GOP presidential contenders who have said the measure is ineffective and a form of amnesty for illegal immigrants.
On Wednesday, he downplayed the political stake he has in the measure. "If it fails, then frankly what it has to say about me is far less important than the fact we'll have the status quo and 12 million people somewhere in America without us knowing who they are and what they're doing," McCain said.
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This guy really gives village idiots a bad name.
Good grief. Is ANYBODY dumb enough to fall for this?
McCain is becoming increasingly irrelevant in the GOP primaries.
There was another RINO preaching this line on Fox yesterday. We need the bill to find “those that mean us harm”. As if they too would ‘come from the shadows’.
I am.
He is right that it is dangerous to have 12 million illegals in the country and we don’t know who they are, where they are staying, what they are doing.
He is wrong that the answer is to bribe them all to come forward by offering them legal rights to stay in this country no matter what (meaning so long as they aren’t otherwise criminals, just to be accurate).
Assuming there are terrorists among the 12 million illegals, making them legal hardly helps us stop the terrorists.
Hello! McLame! Pass a seperate bill on security!
People don’t take John McCain seriously enough. Maybe if he would wear a Paper Hat and stick a banana in his ear while dancing a jig on the corner of Fifth Ave. they would. I know I would. I hope he takes my advice.
However he is still better than any of the Al-dimocRAT candidates. That does not say much.
Addition is the only remaining mathematical function the brain can perform. Delusional behavior to where the individual politician constantly lies begins at the end of the 3rd year in office.
There is no question the man is a patriot but his flakiness bothers me a whole lot.
He doesn't have my vote anymore. He needs to retire and bask in the dark!
Absolutely right...12 million-plus scattered illegals is the issue and the one that needs to be addressed. Crafting legislation that also includes increasing H1-B visas for skilled tech workers from the current 65,000 per year to 180,000 does nothing to fight terrorism...all it does is satisfy Bill Gates’ demand for unlimited, cheap, skilled Microsoft worker bees. It’s common practice to add pork to any government bill, but the H1-B scam falls well outside of the selling point about “the jobs Americans are unwilling to do.”
Maybe a “1 step, 1 issue at a time” approach is needed when it comes to immigration. Maybe the first step is dealing with the current 12 million-plus illegals without granting them amnesty. Instead, we have politicians who seem to believe that if they say “it’s not amnesty” long enough and loud enough we’ll all eventually sign up for the agenda.
Can’t we get McCain certified?
John McCain reminds me of Butters on South Park.
It’s the same arguement the gun grabbers use. ‘If we make guns illegal everyone will have to turn in their weapons and we will have control of them’. Never mind the fact that criminal, or in this case terrorists, do NOT turn themselves in to be counted.
C’mon FReepers - where’s the obligatory pirate photo of McCain? That pic always make my day.
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