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Posted on 08/15/2007 9:16:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Wednesday that the issue of illegal immigration angered people unlike no other, including the unpopular war in Iraq, and sparked unprecedented death threats against him.
"It is unbelievable how this has inflamed the passions of the American people," the Arizona senator said in remarks at The Aspen Institute, a public policy forum. In an interview, he declined to elaborate on the threats he had received.
Still, McCain said, he continued to support a temporary worker program for the 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States. Derided by critics as amnesty, the program was one of the most controversial elements of the failed immigration bill supported by President Bush and a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House and Senate.
McCain acknowledged that the immigration issue, along with his support for the war in Iraq, had cost him politically.
"Look, I've got to do what I know is right for this country. These issues I have to take head-on," he said.
McCain said the United States is making progress in Iraq, and he recommended that the U.S. take a hard line against Iran. He said an alternative is needed to the United Nations, where Iran's supporters have blocked sanctions, and that the U.S. should set up another coalition with democratic nations.
Russian President Vladimir Putin should be barred from the next meeting of the G-8, the coalition of western leaders who meet to discuss world issues, McCain said. Putin wants to reunite the former Soviet Union and has surrounded himself with former members of the Soviet spy agency, the KGB, to crack down on opponents, he said.
McCain said the G-8 was founded on fundamental economic and democratic principles and that Russia no longer meets the qualifications for G-8 membership.
"We have to make it clear to Putin that this kind of behavior makes him, in many ways, a pariah. The next year when they're meeting, stay home, Vlad," he said.
Well, it probably is unbelievable to you John. You would have a better understanding of the average taxpayer's frustration if you didn't have all those perks, that fat pension and great insurance that all of you "public servants" receive there up on the hill.
And you don't have to be subjected to living in the same neighborhood with the crime and declining property values.
Really John? Is it really unbelievable that Americans don’t want it taken over by illegals? 12 ‘workers’? He is a zombie.
The only thing that is “unbelievable” is that Johnny McLame is still running for President. it is time to stick a fork in this RINO kook.
Politicians are selling our sovereignty for their own political and financial gain, and then they are in awe and wonderment that many citizens are irate.
Sometimes it seems the politicians just go insane when they get elected.
sparked unprecedented death threats against him.
Let me see if I can find some sympathy for poor John McCain. Nope, he is not dead like those poor kids in Newark. Their blood is on his hands.
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If this is true, the people who do it are obviously unconscionable nutcases, this country is still a (hopefully long) way from using political assassination as a political instrument. It is also true that strong feelings attract nutcases, and the more controversial the issue, the more it attracts. McCain led the support for an extremely controversial position in the GOP, which attracted the attention of the unfortunately numerous whack jobs around the country.
Anybody with half a brain knows that in a country of 300 million any prominent politician is going to get threats from a few of the many lunatics at large. For someone who’s been in public life as long as has it seems he still has alot to learn.
Oh, for Pete frikkin sakes.
I think he is confusing his political death with his physical one. Politically he is a dead man walking.
“McCain acknowledged that the immigration issue, along with his support for the war in Iraq, had cost him politically.
“Look, I’ve got to do what I know is right for this country. These issues I have to take head-on,” he said.”
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..........................
ROTFLMAO!
“The next year when they’re meeting, stay home, Vlad,” he said”
McLame is the one who should be staying home. He shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
Hey Johnny! In case you haven’t noticed, every citizen in our nation is under the threat of death at the whim of an illegal. What makes you so fricken special?
Citizens in our nation are subject to murder, rape, assault, lifelong disabilities, loss of loved ones, loss of property, loss of future, loss of children, loss of those children’s virginity...
And Johnny lays out some lame threat as if he’s too good to live the life the rest of us do, due to his unfathomable stupidity that borders on criminal negligence.
Yeah Johnny, screw you motha...
Proving the necessity for TERM LIMITS...
The bastards become OUT OF TOUCH with reality after two terms....
Demand a border fence! Build it NOW!! Beef up the border patrol and close our borders! Stop the DREAM Act!!
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This has got to be good news for Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy, not to mention attempts on FDR, Truman, Ford and RR.
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