McCain courts Latino leaders

Ira, Freehold, NJ — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:37:42 GMT

McCain flip-flopped in immigration reform and now would have all 12 million illegal immigrants deported.
Let's round them all up....good use of our limited resources don't you think.

Small businesses would not be helped by making the Bush tax cuts permanent. They are geared to the wealthiest of Americans and McCain knows it. That's why he said he'd be ashamed to vote for them...now he's for them.

Finally, for McCain to invoke the imagry of the Viet Nam memorial and the long list of Americans who died for this country after voting AGAINST a new GI bill for our current heroes is a dispicable display of pandering.

The maverick we once admired has become a lying, pandering potician and he should be ashamed.

McCain courts Latino leaders

donna — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:00:30 GMT

There you have it folks. Senator John McCain sees Hispanics as fodder for his wars, and it's fine with him if they are illegal aliens while they give all for his blood lust.

Also, they are a demographic that he wants to vote for him, while he acknowledges what an otherwise pain in the butt they are down along the border.

John McCain has a briefcase full of excuses anytime he's got to pander to Blacks, (sorry about that MLK holiday diss), and the unemployed in Ohio, and Pa., (sorry, I ain't got no jobs for ya), and the folks in Santa Barbera, (sorry, but we need to oil up some sand). Now he thinks he impresses Hispanics with his cribbed index card of statistics, quoting how many of them own Latino businesses, as if they didn't know.

He doesn't offer so much as one reason why they should support his bid for the Presidency with their vote.

He wants Shaq, and Rodriguez to head up his physical education outreach. Sports, that's what the darkies are good for, right John?

Hispanics want to know how McCain will help them achieve more in the sciences, and technological fields.

Jaime Escalantez, (sorry for the misspelling), a brilliant engineer, gave up his career to successfully teach calculus in inner city schools to Hispanic H.S. students, thought incapable of learning such mathematical equations.

McCain, obviously knows nothing of such a mindset, or vision. What's worse, McCain knows not that he knows not, when it comes to equality for women, and folks who are different than he.

His anecdote above referencing the Hispanic POW is meant to convince us that he cares. His voting record angainst GI's, and women etc., however, prove otherwise.

McCain courts Latino leaders

Steve A Jonesboro IN — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:14:45 GMT

Mccain is such a self righteous phony!

McCain courts Latino leaders

Lisa — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:35:05 GMT

McBush thinks that all American's are stupid. He insluts us with all his flip flops and out right lies.

McCain courts Latino leaders

American Voter — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:20:49 GMT

I am so tired of the way the media treats McCain. Yes, he is a POW but that does not excuse him from the same microscope that you view ever action and word of the Obama campaign. McCain's campaign makes racial slurs and inneundos. McCain made a joke the other day to a newspaper about just giving up being a wife beater. McCain flip flops and panders on every issue instead of giving real substitive answers. It is not covered that McCain has received over a million dollars from the gas and oil industry and has many of their higher ups on his fundraising campaign team. If you call yourselves journalists and have any kind of integrity, you will cover McCain's mistakes, missteps, and ethical blunders with the same intensity as you do Obama. He may be a POW but he is running for the highest office of this great nation. No one gets a free pass.

I am waiting for media to stop focusing on the gossip and entertainment and talk about real issues and the different stands the candidates have without having to hear thousands of panelists opinions on the matter. The media should not pick our president. The American voter could be more informed IF the media did a better job. You have 24 hour a day opportunity. Make better use of it.

McCain courts Latino leaders

tina, ar — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:37:45 GMT

Does he have to mention himself being a POW at every friggin' event. We know, we know, geez, the media keeps telling us all the time, they also keep telling us you're a maverick. It seems though they haven't been checking your positions lately on the maverick thing. I would say genuine fippy-flop. I watched both speeches and I would say if it was a debate Obama won hands down just from the crowds reaction. Anyone there or watching would have to say so. McCain look uncomfortable and very unhappy about even having to be there.

McCain courts Latino leaders

Steve, Boise, ID — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:55:39 GMT

McCain was ordered by his superior office to refuse early release. And now he wants to claim credit for it. McCain is a joke.

McCain courts Latino leaders

laughaday — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:22:59 GMT

I'm not tryin to put down his prisoner of war history,but he's coming dangerously close to a Rudylike stance.........everything is going to be mentioned in terms of his Vietnam years.....kinda like noun-verb-911.

McCain courts Latino leaders

Hillocrat voting for McCain — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:29:56 GMT

Latinos support McCain. He means what he says and says what he means.

McCain courts Latino leaders

Mark Thieme — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:07:13 GMT

Reviewing the past 8 years one wonders aloud if the so-called "Bush Administration" ever, even once, has done anything right.

No need here for the obvious litany of idiotic escapades, deadly decisions, or pranks gone bad. No news here. Nothing left with which to surprise us.

The masters of shock and aw shucks hang on these seven coming months, praying for a cataclysmic disaster which could keep them in power, maybe forever.

They may never have been right legally, morally, practically... not even politically. That would smear the right in this country with the human waste this "administration" has been.

Right wing is not the cynical McCain, nee Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rove claque. Right wing is Pat Buchanan. Sure he is a little batty, but he has a point of view. He cares about this country and its future... you tend to listen even when you disagree.

Right is the late William F. Buckley whose articulation of conservatism at least made sense on some rhetorical level.

Right is Mike Huckabee who just wants to be president and play that old-time rock and roll.

The True Right have little do do with this mess.

We have been living a postmodern idiot's dream for 8 years. Clockwork Orange as public policy. Dr. Strangelove as operational geopolitical philosophy.

Sick. Foolish. Perverse. Rotten. Insane.

To even listen to the babble coming from the incurable 23%, to pay attention to the martyr-soldier who never talks about his heroism except when he does, to curse this nation by casting a republican vote for any national office in the coming general election is "the stuff that delusional psychosis is made of."

I defy any patriot not presently incarcerated for felony violations, any red-blooded American not on the artificial "life support" of FOX News, not addicted to the cult of fear, to refute any of what has been said here.

I, for one, can say no other.

Enough.

McCain courts Latino leaders

McSame FLIP FLOPS once again — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:15:04 GMT

Here's McSame debating himself (once again) on immigration reform.....How does expect to debate Sen Obama when he is still debating himself on a daily basis?<P>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUYTUbJy71k&eurl=http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/28/182843/138/630/543467">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUYTUbJy71k&eurl=http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/28/182843/138/630/543467

McCain courts Latino leaders

Ira, Freehold, NJ — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:43:29 GMT

I just heard a video clip of McCain, on Friday, in a town hall in Warren, Ohio, take credit for the new GI Bill that he voted AGAINST. He was "honored" to announce that under the new bill, educational benefits would be vastly expanded. He wasn't honored enough to vote for Sen. Webbs bill to authorize it. Just honored enough to lie about it to the American public.

The man has no shame.

McCain courts Latino leaders

Carl — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:08:40 GMT

The most telling part of the speech was when John McCain, who displayed a rare form of honesty uttered "A funny thing happened on my way to the nomination. I was completely for comprehensive immigration reform but in an effort to save my neck, I threw you guys under the bus." "No hard feelings right?"