Hope, my friends, hope is a powerful thing,” said McCain, who at 71 is a four-term senator from Arizona.
McCain cautioned: “To encourage a country with only rhetoric rather than sound and proven ideas that trust in the strength and courage of free people is not a promise of hope. It’s a platitude.”
Recalling his struggle as a Vietnam prisoner of war, McCain said he discovered then “that nothing is more liberating in life to fight for a cause that encompasses you, but is not defined by your existence alone.”
“I do not seek the presidency on the presumption that I am blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save my country in its hour of need,” said McCain, a former Navy pilot who spent more than five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam after his plane was shot down..
“I seek the presidency with the humility of a man who cannot forget that my country saved me,” he said.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080213/D8UP9A680.html
Lots of pretty words with no solid content.
Too bad McAmnesty’s Record is so horrible.
1. McCain-Fiengold
2. McCain-Kennedy
3. McCain-Lieberman
4. Kerry-McCain
5. Support for Embryonic Stem-Cell research
6. Support for Global Warming Scam
7. Against Drilling in ANWAR
8. Leaked Top-Secret information about CIA Prisons in Europe to the Press.
9. Voted against President Bush’s Tax Cuts
10. Gang of 14 kept President Bush’s judges from being appointed.
11. Wll grant amnesty to 20 million+ Illegal Aliens who will vote by a large margin for the Democrats and put the party in the Minority status for 40+ years.
McAmnesty will destroy the GOP and the Conservative wing of the party.
He is no more a Reagan Conservative than Hillary Clinton.