On Aug 16, 3:00 pm, strabo wrote:
An example of how money and power clouds men's minds
and isolate them from reality...

McCain: Immigration Issue Led to Threats
Aug 15 08:10 PM US/Eastern
By STEVEN K. PAULSON
Associated Press Writer

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain said
Wednesday that the issue of illegal immigration angered people unlike no
other, including the unpopular war in Iraq, and sparked unprecedented
death threats against him.

"It is unbelievable how this has inflamed the passions of the American
people," the Arizona senator said in remarks at The Aspen Institute, a
public policy forum. In an interview, he declined to elaborate on the
threats he had received.

Still, McCain said, he continued to support a temporary worker program
for the 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States. Derided by
critics as amnesty, the program was one of the most controversial
elements of the failed immigration bill supported by President Bush and
a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House and Senate.

McCain acknowledged that the immigration issue, along with his support
for the war in Iraq, had cost him politically.

"Look, I've got to do what I know is right for this country. These
issues I have to take head-on," he said.

McCain said the United States is making progress in Iraq, and he
recommended that the U.S. take a hard line against Iran. He said an
alternative is needed to the United Nations, where Iran's supporters
have blocked sanctions, and that the U.S. should set up another
coalition with democratic nations.

Russian President Vladimir Putin should be barred from the next meeting
of the G-8, the coalition of western leaders who meet to discuss world
issues, McCain said. Putin wants to reunite the former Soviet Union and
has surrounded himself with former members of the Soviet spy agency, the
KGB, to crack down on opponents, he said.

McCain said the G-8 was founded on fundamental economic and democratic
principles and that Russia no longer meets the qualifications for G-8
membership.

"We have to make it clear to Putin that this kind of behavior makes him,
in many ways, a pariah. The next year when they're meeting, stay home,
Vlad," he said.

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McCain, Kennedy, Bush, et al, ad nauseum are guilty of allowing
illegal immigrants to
butcher American citizens. They failed to work for border security.

Greg

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