Posted on 05/15/2008 7:37:18 AM PDT by ktime
While listening to McCain's policy speech, Sen. McCain incredibly stated the following regarding illegal immigration. I repeat this is not a joke.
Excerpt of speech:
MODERATOR ADDITION - CRITICAL CONTEXT WAS MISSING FROM THIS POST. CONTEXT HAS BEEN ADDED IN ITALICS. POSTER'S ORIGINAL TEXT WILL RESUME AFTER THE ITALICS.
So, what I want to do today is take a little time to describe what I would hope to have achieved at the end of my first term as President. I cannot guarantee I will have achieved these things. I am presumptuous enough to think I would be a good President, but not so much that I believe I can govern by command. Should I forget that, Congress will, of course, hasten to remind me. The following are conditions I intend to achieve. And toward that end, I will focus all the powers of the office; every skill and strength I possess; and seize every opportunity to work with members of Congress who put the national interest ahead of partisanship, and any country in the world that shares our hopes for a more peaceful and prosperous world.
By January 2013,END MODERATOR ADDITION
"Border state governors have certified and the American people recognize that after tremendous improvements to border security infrastructure and increases in the border patrol, and vigorous prosecution of companies that employ illegal aliens, our southern border is now secure.
Illegal immigrants who broke our laws after they came here have been arrested and deported.
Illegal immigration has been finally brought under control, and the American people accepted the practical necessity to institute a temporary worker program and deal humanely with the millions of immigrants who have been in this country illegally."[1]
These statements are contrary to reality.
1) The border is not secure as the virtual and 700 mile fence have yet to be built.
2) Illegal immigrants have not been arrest and deported, unless 20 million people disappeared recently.
3) Current illegal immigration continues unabated today.
4) The US public is overwhelming against amnesty.
Source: JOHN MCCAIN IN COLUMBUS, OHIO 15 MAY 2008
ummmm.....he’s talking about what he envisions the “future” to be, not the current situation.
I thought it would be SECURE January 22nd. Guess I’m behind...
Last damn straw, I'm going to vote for the Democrat!
He was talking about what will be done by the end of his presidency.
You had to hear it from the beginning. He was delivering his hoped-for speech of 2013.
Maybe I was a little too quick, as he state he wishes to accomplish this by the end of his first term.
However he leaves an escape hatch.
“I cannot guarantee I will have achieved these things.”
He’s talking about 2013, at the end of his term.
he’s not talking about today.
He’s talking about his vision.
The Democrats do guarantee 24/7 lawnboys (keep those hedges trimmed) and other services of a more intimate nature ~
our southern border is now secure.
and I will not Vote for John MCCain.....
if this is the best that the Republican Party can come up with??
screw it.
I am not voting this November.........
yes... I want the democrats to win......
yes....this is a choice between 3 Crap sandwiches...
so i am skipping lunch.
Get your facts straight before posting please. And no, I don’t support McCain, I just don’t like the utterly misrepresentative way you posted this. You did this to bait people, and that makes you a disruptor, Mr. one-monther.
That's his "second term" accomplishment speech. Tune in tomorrow.
You should ask the mods to change your title. It is misleading. You obviously did not read or listen to the whole speech.
“....he’s talking about what he envisions the “future” to be, not the current situation.”
That was my first thought as I read this. I was thinking perhaps he’d grabbed the wrong sheathe of prewritten speeches or the likes thereof, but regardless something into the future.
Holding that door open to all those illegals makes me think of McCain as an effective La Raza doorstop.
I wasn’t giving an opinion on his speech, just stating the OP was wrong on what McCain actually said.
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