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You're a liar! He never said any such thing! Here is a transcript of his speech.

You owe Captainpaintball an apology.

I watched the Orange County speech--it was webcast. Thompson deviated vastly from the written version you linked to and talked about much more than is included there. That is not a transcript, but prepared remarks published before the event.

The video is available on youtube in four parts (about 35 minutes in total)

You will note in Part 2, at about the 6 minute and 30 second mark, Thompson says exacly what CPB says he did.

No, I will not apologize to Captainpaintball. Fred did not say exactly what Cpb said he did. Here is what he said, word for word from the video you linked...

One of those things is border security. The immigration problem has to do with immigration, but it in large part has to do with national security. We live in a world now we've inherited. A world that is watching the attempted marriage between radical Islamic fundamentalism and nuclear technology. We live in a world where 40 countries have fissile material sufficient to make a nuclear weapon and the bad guys are trying their best to get their hands on it. And we live in a country with porous borders and porous ports. It doesn't take a genius to put all that together and see the problem we've got in this country. And I think that people are going to demand that that be addressed first. I don't think the 12 million illegal aliens that are here, that are of concern, are as much of a concern to most people as the next 12 million and the next 12 million after that ad infinitum. We were told before that there was a solution to this if we'd just pass a bill. We did that in 1986 and now we're coming back with the same old stuff and I don't think people are going to respond to it until that border situation is addressed. Then, I think, people of good will can sit down and work out the rest of it together.

Thank you, calcowgirl. I hate being called a liar. Especially when, once again, I am RIGHT. The funny thing is, I may end up supporting Thompson...these thinned skin babies become personally offended when someone DARES question “their” guy.

The reason I am upset about this is I see people falling into the same trap as 2000...Fall in love with a guy, don't question anything about him, and go after anyone who does. It happened with Bush, and look what has happened. These guys are human beings like us, with faults, and are not Jesus Christ incarnate. They have to EARN our vote, and I am going to make sure we make them work for it!!!

jellybean; Petronski; STARWISE---As for the rest of you, no need for apologies, I know you guys are just plain sorry.