Barack Obama, who has been taking heat over the past couple of weeks for a series of flip-flops, uses the friendly forum before Latino officials to go after McCain for a shift of his own.
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Barack Obama, who has been taking heat over the past couple of weeks for a series of flip-flops, uses the friendly forum before Latino officials to go after McCain for a shift of his own.
The Democratic nominee recalled that both had backed an immigration bill that included a pathway to citizenship.
"He was a champion of comprehensive reform, and I admired him for it," Obama said. "But what he didn't mention is that when he was running for his party's nomination, he walked away from that commitment."
After receiving a round of applause, Obama reached into his campaign oppo file and noted that McCain "said he wouldn't even support his own legislation if it came up for a vote." http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonatha... John McCain's incoherence on immigration policy has quickly gone from problematic to humiliating. The poor guy has spun himself into a box he can't seem to get out of.
Just Thursday, in a relatively high-profile speech in California, McCain went back to the position he'd given up to win the Republican nomination. McCain boasted about having worked with Ted Kennedy and said, "[W]e must enact comprehensive immigration reform. We must make it a top agenda item." McCain went on to take an anti-deportation position on immigrants already in the U.S. who entered the country illegally, saying "they are also God's children, and we have to do it in a human and compassionate fashion."
Soon after, far-right activists were apoplectic, especially given McCain's repeated assurances during the primaries that he'd given on a "comprehensive" approach to immigration reform. So, the day after his speech, McCain reversed course yet again.
McCain's campaign, however, quickly pandered to the right wing. The National Review's Jim Geraghty reports that the campaign said McCain's statement on the priority of immigration reform was "poorly worded":
"Team McCain tells me the senator's comments were poorly worded. There's been no discussion within the campaign of altering their stance on illegal immigration, and as far as everyone on the campaign is concerned, the policy is still, 'secure the border first.'"
This doesn't make a lick of sense. On Thursday, McCain was talking to a group of business leaders who liked McCain's original approach to comprehensive legislation, and the senator sought input on how best to rally support for his own bill (which he now says he'd vote against). On Friday, McCain told opponents of his immigration bill that he didn't mean any of what he'd just said.
This is more than just a shameless flip-flop; it's quickly becoming a character flaw. He'll shovel whichever nonsense he has to say to please which ever audience happens to be in front of him at the time. http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05... On the January 31 edition of CNN's American Morning, congressional correspondent Dana Bash asserted that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) made "a concession" to "conservatives" on the issue of "illegal immigration" during CNN's January 30 Republican presidential debate, when McCain said he would not, in Bash's words, "vote for his own legislation allowing citizenship" for undocumented immigrants if it came to a vote on the Senate floor. But Bash failed to note that just days earlier, McCain had said he would sign that very legislation into law if he were elected president.
From Bash's report on the January 31 edition of CNN's American Morning:
BASH: But on one huge McCain weak spot with conservatives, illegal immigration, a concession. When asked if he would vote for his own legislation allowing citizenship --
McCAIN: No, I would not, because we know what the situation is today. The people want the borders secured first.
BASH: And more than once, a stern reminder from [former Arkansas Gov.] Mike Huckabee it's not a two-man race.
McCain's assertion that he "would not" vote for his own comprehensive immigration bill came during the January 30 CNN debate, when he was asked by Los Angeles Times staff writer Janet Hook, "At this point, if your original proposal came to a vote on the Senate floor, would you vote for it?" As Bash noted, McCain responded: "No, I would not, because we know what the situation is today. The people want the borders secured first." Yet on the January 27 edition of NBC's Meet the Press, host Tim Russert asked McCain, "If the Senate passed your bill, S.1433, the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill, would you, as president, sign it?" McCain responded, "Yeah, but we -- look, the lesson is, it isn't won. It isn't going to come." http://mediamatters.org/items/2008013...
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Hey everybody listen up! I've just watched some of the montage videos from 44Joelmic & JGonzales112 where they 'spit' at Obama (in soooo pathetic way it's sad really). But what pissed me off is how they disabled all possible comments including on their channel too. That is so pathetic that I can't believe! Is that the honored way to promote their contra Obama opinions?! COWARDS! ..they make me sick! (..and I'm not from USA..)
.... Please never speak again. I'm not sure how you even drew these conclusions. I would give you evidence to refute your wild claims, but I don't even think you would be able to comprehend words with more than three syllables.
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What he calls "immigration reform" is really amnesty for illegal alien INVADERS, not immigrants.
The only "reform" needed is to ENFORCE already-exsiting law.
Entering illegally is a felony CRIME, as is to aid or abet, or to encourage or harbor, illegal aliens.
PROSECUTE Obama and deport him, as well as all other illegals. Fine each one $10,000