Posted on 09/17/2008 9:24:19 PM PDT by calcowgirl
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- The state's image as the world's automotive capital can be restored under a John McCain presidency, he said Wednesday at a campaign rally with running mate Sarah Palin.
McCain, who visited a Detroit-area General Motors Corp. plant earlier in the day, pledged his support for a loan package for domestic automakers he'd previously looked at with a skeptical eye.
Several thousand supporters turned out for the latest of McCain's "straight talk town hall meetings" in the Ford Field House at Grand Rapids Community College, an event that last about an hour and 15 minutes.
"The working people of this great state of Michigan are the hardest working, the best skilled, the most productive, the most competitive in the world, and they are the backbone and the foundation of our economy," McCain said.
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Earlier, while speaking to about 100 workers at the Orion Township plant in Oakland County where Chevrolet Malibus and Pontiac G6s are produced, McCain said he backed a plan in Congress to give automakers $25 billion in federal loans to help them retool for cleaner cars. He then took a jab at troubles in the nation's financial sector.
"We are not going to leave the workers here in Michigan hung out to dry while we give billions of taxpayer dollars to Wall Street," McCain said during brief remarks to reporters at the plant. "It's time we get our auto industry back on its feet. It's time for a new generation of cars and for loans to build the facilities to make them."
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Republican U.S. Rep. Candice Miller ... said in a conference call that McCain's comments were a signal to President Bush and Republicans on Capitol Hill that supporting the $25 billion loan program for the domestic automakers is a good idea.
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There, that's the help he should give!
Maybe he's trying to win with friendly facism, aka FF!
I just heard that China is interested in up to 50% of Merrill Lynch!!! they already own around 10%... and soon they'll want to grant Obama's ACORN a piece of the action!!!
Facistas and communistas abound.
I saw something the other day comparing recent US actions to the China model.
We are moving in the exact wrong direction in the name of “reform.”
That’s how it’s always done!!!
I think it's worth a Constitutional amendment. Make the entire country Right-To-Work.
Remember when Schwarzenegger started in with his “three Rs” — “recovery, reform, rebuild”?
It sounded a lot like FDRs “relief, recovery, and reform”
Arnie and McCain would like to be compared to TR—I think they have the wrong Roosevelt.
He claimed that if the constitution was silent, there was a vaccuum that the executive could promptly fill with any opinion the President could conjer up!!! Both Roosevelts saw it this way, except cousin Franklin tried to pack the court to cut down on disagreements with this idea!!!
I also saw Teddy's Bullmoose CONvention delegates all singing "Onward Christian Soldiers" at the top of their lungs! One wonders how the Counsel on Arab and Islamic Relations (CAIR) would view THAT these days!!!(or Dems)
Oh! And how come the EnvironMentalists have adopted TR when he murdered both wild animals and especially their habitat with MASSIVE disturbances of nature around the world? Huh???
Both Roosevelts were very bad news and neither of 'em shoulda been on Mt. Rushmore IMO!!!
Completely illuminate CAFE!
I'm not familiar with that. When I think of Teddy, I think of his "progressive" period when he and Hiram Johnson were the mavericks of the day. And then there was his alliance with progressives (aka socialists) Amos and Gifford Pinchot, sweeping up millions of acres of private property in the name of Conservation.
Yet I keep hearing (and I'm shocked you don't hear it) that he was this big naturalist/conservationist/preservationist "savior" who started national parks and was second only to John Muir in those regards!!! Totally bogus!!!
Oh! That's right!! You did hear about all the supposed "conservation" upon which they also try to call him a "conservative!!!"
Aha! Yeah... I've heard of those but I didn't put it together with your comment. Thanks.
Yet I keep hearing (and I'm shocked you don't hear it) that he was this big naturalist/conservationist/preservationist "savior" who started national parks and was second only to John Muir in those regards!!! Totally bogus!!!
Yep... that part, I know. That's where the communista-like Pinchot brothers came in and where I think McCain gets his idea of being in the TR mold. He's had a long history of taking private lands in the name of Conservation (back when his buddy Babbitt was DOI). All of htose shenanigans is why I believe we need a complete house-cleaning in the Dept of the Interior--talk about greed and corruption. That whole place makes Wall Street look like pikers!
Oh! That's right!! You did hear about all the supposed "conservation" upon which they also try to call him a "conservative!!!"
I have no problem with "conserving." But these folks have a whole different agenda and it certainly ain't "conservative!!!" (I know you agree). ;-)
How about TR's "trust busting" against Carnegie and Rockefeller actually being on behalf of JP Morgan?
What a guy.
McLiberal rears his sorry azz again.
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