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| McCain camp announces 'jobs first' plan from Mexico |
by Nick Juliano
Published: Thursday July 3, 2008
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 Some grim US employment data emerged Thursday, showing 62,000 jobs were lost in June. Meanwhile, Republican presidential candidate John McCain responded with his proposal for a "jobs first" economic plan. The statement was released while McCain was wrapping up a trip to Mexico.
Not missing an opportunity to slam the GOP candidate for his support of open trade that many blame for lost US manufacturing jobs, Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean said the candidate was "hurting America."
"On the same day John McCain is in Mexico promoting NAFTA, we find out America lost another 62,000 jobs last month because of the failed Bush-McCain economic policies that have been a disaster for our country," Dean said in an e-mailed statement. "How much longer must this go on before George Bush and John McCain realize their economic policies are hurting America? What we need is a President who will put American workers first and give hard-working families a tax break."... Complete article here: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCain_camp_leaks_details_on_jobs_0703.html |
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| 'Mushy middle' hard to reach for Obama, McCain |
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Published: Thursday July 3, 2008
They're the most fickle voters, and potentially the most powerful. Thus, with party nominations secure, John McCain and Barack Obama now are pushing toward the center to win them over.
Meet the "mushy middle," a complex chunk of people likely to decide the presidential election but difficult to reach and hard to please.
"Yes, we can!" isn't floating their boat. Nothing much is, from either candidate.
They aren't uniformly conservative or liberal, and they don't fit strict Republican or Democratic orthodoxy. They aren't typically engaged in politics, and they don't much care about the campaign. And like so many others, they are extraordinarily pessimistic.
"To me, it's not about the party, it's about who is the best person for the job," says Pam Robinett, 47, from Wellington, Kan., who always votes. Then again, "they'll all lie, cheat and steal to get what they want."
Talk about a tough sell.
"The country's going to go to hell in a handbasket with this election," seethes James Nauman, 55, from Lutz, Fla. "I don't think Obama's qualified and McCain's another Bush. Neither of them really have impressed me."
Both will try.
A recent AP-Yahoo News poll finds that 15 percent call themselves moderates and aren't solidly supporting a candidate. More than half of this still-persuadable middle is made up of independents...
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| Analysis: Presidential rivals hide immigration similarities |
By DAVID ESPO
Jun 30, 5:33 PM (ET)
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WASHINGTON (AP) - When it comes to immigration, Barack Obama and John McCain generally agree. It's just that they don't want to say so. Instead, the White House rivals accuse one another of flinching when it mattered most, during and after last year's Senate debate on a bill that would have given millions of illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. McCain "was a champion of comprehensive reform, and I admired him for it," Obama said Saturday in an appearance before The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. "But when he was running for his party's nomination, he walked away from that commitment and he's said he wouldn't even support his own legislation if it came up for a vote." McCain had spoken earlier in the day to the same group, and his campaign swiftly countered his rival's charge. "Obama put politics first and supported 'poison pill' efforts to kill the immigration reform compromise last year," it said in a written rebuttal.  | (AP) Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and his wife Cindy walk down the...
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If the disagreement seems somewhat forced, the motives behind it are straight forward. The issue is important to Hispanics, who make up a large and growing minority of the electorate, and may hold the balance of power this fall in the potential battleground states of Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico as well as Florida. Obama is out to win over as many as possible of the 75 percent of Democratic primary voters who chose Hillary Rodham Clinton over him, and then begin attracting Latino voters who went for President Bush in 2004. As a Republican, McCain has a somewhat more complicated challenge. He can't afford to have conservatives who view immigration legislation as amnesty sit out the election. But he also can't allow his share of the Hispanic vote to recede to pre-Bush levels. Based on McCain's words and Obama's voting record, there is a measure of truth in what both sides say, even though the two men supported the bill with provisions to secure borders, crack down on employers who hire illegal immigrants, expand guest worker programs and provide a path to citizenship for millions in the country illegally.
McCain and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., were leading advocates of the measure, which died in the Senate amid criticism that it offered amnesty to illegal immigrants...
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| Our Troubled Country: Trashing America by Endless Immigration |
By Frosty Wooldridge
June 29, 2008
The more America imports millions of illegal alien migrants from the third world as well as legal immigrants from ancient cultures, the more the third world manifests itself within the United States. California features in excess of four million illegal aliens as well as millions of immigrants arriving from third world countries. The predominant aspect of those cultures allows careless and endless tossing of trash anywhere at anytime. Across America today, by adding 2.1 million third world new comers, mostly poor, uneducated and without any background for personal responsibility--America’s highways, cities, rivers, beaches, parks and most pristine areas suffer soiled baby diapers, tossed junk, used oil, chemicals and worse--tossed indiscriminately across our land. Today, Los Angeles suffers 200,000 cubic yards of trash thrown everywhere annually without concern that must be cleaned up at a cost of millions of dollars. The video below presents a grim picture of what every community faces with massive immigration loads.
“In the late 1990s I co-owned wrought iron fabrication business located in the heart of this area,” said Robert Spence. “It was just as disgusting and depressing as shown in this video, particularly after a weekend, when the industrial areas were deserted, and the 3rd worlders dumped unopposed. It was rare that we did not start a week on Monday without a dead dog or other animal, many of which we saw alive on Friday, littering the area.
“Large amounts of rotting garbage, obviously from the local catering trucks, was routine. Perhaps the most disgusting find was a full sized green plastic garbage can, full of what appeared to be human excrement. “And one of the cruelest was a cardboard box full of baby kittens. We had ”factory cat" that had adopted us, and she had found the box of kittens and was in the process of carrying them, one by one, back into our factory. This is an ever expanding 3rd world cesspool that will rise like a flood until it eventually consumes those who now express apathy toward the illegal invasion, and even those who think that supporting the illegals will somehow buy them immunity. “Let's see if our politicians and religious leaders are quite so smug when seas of rotting filth are lapping at the boundaries of their homes. Better yet, let's sentence L.A.’s Mayor Villagarosa's and Vance's of this world to relocate into the festering areas of South LA and Townsite. Kinda’ like making slumlords live in their own decaying apartments.”...
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| McCain: Immigration reform “top priority” for first 100 days |
by Mosheh Oinounou
FoxNews
June 28th, 2008 1:44 PM Eastern
WASHINGTON, DC — Boldly declaring that he will make comprehensive immigration reform his “top priority,” during his first 100 days in office, Sen. John McCain today assured Latino leaders that they will have an ally in the White House. “It will be my top priority yesterday, today, and tomorrow,” McCain told the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Saturday. “Immigration reform will be my top priority because we have the obligation to address a federal issue from a federal standpoint. I will reach across the aisle again and work in a bipartisan fashion. We will resolve the immigration issue in America and we will secure our borders.” McCain made the statement in response to a question about his Oval Office priorities after mainly focusing on the economy during his opening remarks to the group. He addressed NALEO this morning just before his Democratic rival spoke, noting at the top of his remarks that he was hoping the conference could have served as a forum for his joint-town hall proposal.While McCain mostly avoided attacks on Obama—not even taking his usual shot at the Democrat’s support for a labor-backed amendment that hurt last year’s Senate immigration effort—the Illinois Senator exercised no such restraint.Instead, McCain noted the battle he had with his own party during the failed comprehensive immigration reform effort... |
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| Report: McCain meets with president of Log Cabin Republicans |
posted at 7:27 pm on June 25, 2008 by Allahpundit
Unconfirmed as yet by the campaign, but the LCRs say it’s so:A source with close ties to the Log Cabin Board of Directors provided information about the meeting to GayPatriot earlier this week. This source disclosed that the Log Cabin meeting was not reflected on Senator McCain’s published schedule in advance and the meeting…
Log Cabin President Patrick Sammon confirmed the meeting with Senator McCain in email correspondence with GayPatriot earlier today…
Based on published news reports, the meeting with Senator McCain would be the first between any national-level gay Republicans and a Republican Presidental nominee since “The Texas 12″ met with then-Governor George W. Bush in 2000.
One of Maverick’s more appealing mavericky qualities during the campaign has been his attempt to expand the tent by reaching out to minority voters. The rift’s not going to be healed anytime soon and he surely realizes it, but this gets us a tiny bit closer to healing it eventually. It’s commendable that he’s willing to devote resources to the task. What’s especially impressive — or insane, from the strict Machiavellian point of view — is that meeting with the LCRs could actually cost him votes among the most strident members of a social conservative base that’s not real keen on him to begin with and even less so after he dumped Hagee and Parsley. Surely there aren’t so many gay Republicans and independents that winning them over will offset the potential loss in votes among evangelicals, so what’s McCain’s game here? Or is there no game at all and he’s simply acting out of decency towards a GOP constituency?... |
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| "Shit, he makes ME look conservative" |
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| Obama holds 12-point lead over McCain, poll finds |
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According to a Times/Bloomberg Poll, 49% of registered voters favor Sen. Barack Obama while 37% support Sen. John McCain.
A Times/Bloomberg Poll says that in a two-man contest, 49% of respondents favor Barack Obama, while 37% support John McCain. With Ralph Nader and Bob Barr added to the mix, Obama holds 15-point edge.
By Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
2:00 PM PDT, June 24, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Buoyed by enthusiasm among Democrats and public concern over the economy, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has captured a sizable lead over Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) at the opening of the general election campaign for president, the Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg Poll has found.
In a two-man race between the major party candidates, registered voters chose Obama over McCain by 49% to 37% in the national poll conducted last weekend...
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| The Military Scandal the Media Won't Touch: Major Jill Metzger's ''kidnapping'' |
June 19, 2008
By Cliff Kincaid
Last summer Accuracy in Media published two blockbuster stories about the case of Major Jill Metzger, who claimed she was abducted and brutalized but somehow escaped from her captors while on a deployment to a U.S. military base in Kyrgyzstan in September of 2006. But no hard evidence of her claims ever turned up and other local sources suggested the abduction story was designed to conceal the procurement of an abortion.
Meanwhile, she returned to the U.S. and spent a year “on ice” at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia, where Metzger did little work and was insulated from contact with other service members by the top brass. “We were ordered not to talk to her,” one sergeant told the website www.militarycorruption.com. She was then “retired” and now draws the equivalent of a military pension worth nearly $3,000 tax-free per month. It is widely believed that Metzger, a feminist icon who had won two Air Force marathons, received preferential treatment. Her father is a retired Air Force colonel and her young husband, a captain, is a member of the dreaded OSI (Office of Special Investigations). Retired U.S. Army Major Glenn MacDonald, editor-in-chief of www.militarycorruption.com, comments, “She had only 12 years of active duty service and was no way near eligible for a retirement pension. Now she gets the equivalent of one because the top brass seem to be protecting her. Why? What does she know that could compromise some top generals?” Now that the Air Force’s top two officials have resigned in a case involving the handling of nuclear weapons and material, there may be an opportunity for Defense Secretary Robert Gates to get to the bottom of the Metzger scandal. The two Air Force officials forced to resign were Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne and Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley. But other top officials may go as well, and one or more may be involved in possible wrongdoing in the Metzger case... |
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| Comedian George Carlin dies at age 71 |
By KEITH ST. CLAIR, Associated Press Writer 28 minutes ago
Reuters Photo: Comedian George Carlin appears on stage during an 80th birthday salute to political satirist Mort...
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - George Carlin, the dean of counterculture comedians whose biting insights on life and language were immortalized in his "Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV" routine, died of heart failure Sunday. He was 71.
Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John's Medical Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He had performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas.
Carlin constantly pushed the envelope with his jokes, particularly with the "Seven Words" routine. When he uttered all seven at a show in Milwaukee in 1972, he was arrested for disturbing the peace. When the words were played on a New York radio station, they resulted in a Supreme Court ruling in 1978 upholding the government's authority to sanction stations for broadcasting offensive language. "So my name is a footnote in American legal history, which I'm perversely kind of proud of," he told The Associated Press earlier this year... |
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| Inside McCain’s closed-door meeting with Chicago Hispanics |
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By Michelle Malkin • June 19, 2008 09:02 PM
Scroll down for updates…Rosanna Pulido of the anti-amnesty group, “You Don’t Speak for Me:” “He’s one John McCain in front of white Republicans. And he’s a different John McCain in front of Hispanics.” Last night, John McCain met with a carefully screened group of Chicago-area Latino voters. The town hall was closed to the media. Several readers e-mailed an eyewitness account of the event. Here’s an excerpt: I was one of the 150 people at the Drake Hotel in Downtown Chicago Wednesday night who came to hear John MC Cain speak to Illinois Hispanics.
I had e-mail in my request to attend after seeing an article in the news paper announcing this event.
This is what i received……….
We are pleased to confirm your invitation to attend the “Hispanic Voices Reception” with Republican Presidential candidate John McCain. The event will take place on June 18, 2008, at The Drake Hotel, 140 E. Walton Place, Chicago, Illinois, in the Drake Room. A volunteer will call you in the next couple of days to give you a “unique event ID number.” You will need that number along with photo identification at the registration table in order to access the event. Doors open for the event promptly at 7:30 PM. Please come early, though, to get through security.
During the reception, Senator John McCain will be fielding questions from the audience. We ask that you be respectful during the question-and-answer session even if your opinions differ from those being shared. Please dress in business-casual attire.
You may park at The Drake Hotel for $30; valet parking is also provided at the hotel for $45. If you are traveling from the suburbs, limited seating is available on the bus leaving from Aurora. To reserve a seat for the bus, please contact us on our hotline number or by e-mail. For your own directions to the event, please click here.
For questions regarding the event, please call our hotline number at 630-801-0043 or e-mail us at McVolunteers@yahoo.com.
Both Senator John McCain and I look forward to meeting you next Wednesday.
Face to Face with John McCain!
“Hispanic Voices Reception”
Wednesday, June 18, 2008, starting at 7:30 PM
The Drake Room The Drake Hotel 140 E Walton Place Chicago, IL 60611
You are invited to hear John McCain address Illinois Hispanics!
If you have any questions, please contact: Gabriela Wyatt or Julie Brady at McVolunteers@yahoo.com Or call the event hot-line (630) 801-0043 _________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________ …..Personally as an Original Minuteman who attended the Historic Minuteman Border Watch in 2005 on the Arizona/ Mexico border and returni[n]g 2 more times for a tour of duty along our southern Border, I was especially looking forward to what John Mc Cain would say about illegal immigration.
This was a NO MEDIA ALLOWED EVENT! That is why I am reporting back to you, all of you folks who have fought so hard with your phone calls to Washington D.C. last summer, shutting down the Washington DC switch board and defeating the AMNESTY BILL. I am reporting back to you those of you who work tirelessly in your local cities and towns trying to get some public elected official to care and enforce the rule of law.
I was told by my friend and fellow Hispanic Marianne Davies who is on the board of “You Don’t Speak for Me” that John Mc Cain has been going across the country having “PRIVATE” meetings with Hispanics.
Although the [invitation] said we would be able to ask questions, that “question ” time with John McCain never happened. That was ok with me, I never had the intention of asking a question, I knew exactly the kind of open borders crowd I was with.
John McCain’s favorite words of the evening were Comprehensive Immigration Reform. But he started out first of all saying if he is gonna win the Presidential election he will need the support of the Latino community.
He said ” My state has been enriched by the Hispanic culture in Arizona.”
Then John McCain asked a question “Did you know this? I bet some of you did not know that Spanish was spoken in Arizona before English” …Loud cheers from the audience. (Ok John McCain What is your AZTLAN POINT?)
Then he said “I want to have some straight talk about our relationship with Mexico,our closest neighbor and dearest friend” He talked about the Mexican President fighting the drug cartels.
Then John McCain aid the exact thing I came to hear, he said “I was proud to work for Comprehensive Immigration Reform and If I am elected President I assure you that in 2009 I will ask Congress to pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform.” (The crowd goes wild) “It is a Federal Responsibility” he said and continued ” we also need a temporary guest worker program”
He then told a story about a day laborer who got picked up this morning, worked all day and then never got paid…We have no Federal Policy, we cannot allow this to happen, he said, He repeated I assure you that I will work for Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
John McCain talked about a debate he was in about enforcing the law and he says that the “other side had a lot of “Rhetoric” “you know what I am talking about!” he said…
Yeah, we know what he’s talking about. All too well. *** Related: Tipster Edgar M. sends an English translation of an article from Diario Libre touting McCain’s promise to renew his shamnesty push for the “undocumented:” New York - The Republican candidate for the White House, Senator John McCain, promised that if he wins, a day after he is sworn in as a new president of the United States, he will pressure Congress to enact a law immediately in favor of immigration reform.
The candidate that appears today eight points behind his Democrat rival Barack Obama, did the pronouncement in an interview that he granted to the Hispanic newspaper La Opinion in Los Angeles…
McCain said that it is completely false that [he] has abandoned his original commitment to fight for reform for the more than 12 million undocumented immigrants that reside in the United States and that includes the failed proposal of President Bush, to secure the borders first.
“This reform will be a priority in my administration because it is a convincing federal responsibility”, added the contender of the Republican Party. “We will undertake immigration reform and on the day after my inauguration, I will ask Congress to reconsider it, although I believe that first we have to secure our borders, set in motion a plan for guest workers that works and to focus on the issue of the undocumented in a humane and compassionate way.”...
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| FEMA Camps Savanna Army Depot, IL |
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Though the Savanna Army Depot has been closed and is a major EPA brownfield, the environmentalists, the Army and US Fish & Wildlife have stymied most development by the Local Redevelopment Authority. Initially, a state maximum security prison was going to built there, but ended up moving south to Thomson, IL. The prison is state of the art, by the railroad and Mississippi River and essentially empty with a small number of minimum security prisoners presently.
It has been empty for about 7 years now. Also, in this, Carroll county, we have a Blackwater training facility. With the depot empty, a huge maximum security prison and Blackwater here, it makes one wonder if there is anything up FEMA's sleeve.We publish a local newspaper and have quite a bit of information on all this if you are interested in it. You can email me at pa@internetni.com"
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| JOHN McCAIN: THE MOST FLAWED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN HISTORY |
by Roland C. Eyears
Thursday, February 28, 2008
It is now clear that what is left of the Republicon Party, after being fatally poisoned by the Bush administration, intents to commit suicide by nominating Senator John McCain (R-Hanoi) for the presidency. Where do I start?
THE EARLY YEARS
McCain spent his boyhood in exclusive boarding schools where staffers were paid to put up with his tirades. We all did some immature things before we matured. But with McCain, the tirades continue today.
Had he not been the son and grandson of admirals, there is scant chance he would have been admitted to the U.S. Naval Academy. Given his behavior patterns and academics, had he not been the son and grandson of admirals, there is little doubt he would have been thrown out. Instead, in 1958 he managed to graduate 894 out of 899. Had he not been the son and grandson of admirals, he is no chance he would have been accepted into the prestigious naval flight training program over far better qualified officers. On his way to becoming a North Vietnamese ace, the aviator lost 3 expensive aircraft on routine, non-combat flights. Little was made of all that, because he was, you know, the son and grandson of admirals.
McCain’s most horrendous loss occurred in 1967 on the USS Forrestal. Well, not horrendous for him. The starter motor switch on the A4E Skyhawk allowed fuel to pool in the engine. When the aircraft was “wet-started,” an impressive flame would shoot from the tail. It was one of the ways young hot-shots got their jollies. Investigators and survivors took the position that McCain deliberately wet-started to harass the F4 pilot directly behind him. The cook off launched an M34 Zuni rocket that tore through the Skyhawk’s fuel tank, released a thousand pound bomb, and ignited a fire that killed the pilot plus 167 men. Before the tally of dead and dying was complete, the son and grandson of admirals had been transferred to the USS Oriskany.
As a rising naval officer, McCain was surrounded by rumors of numerous adulterous affairs, such as used to be called “conduct unbecoming an officer.” Author and biographer Robert Timberg has detailed several of McCain’s sexual relationships with subordinates when serving as a Squadron Leader and an Executive Officer. I think we all know such behavior is a clear violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, in other words, a crime.
When McCain’s application to the National War College was rejected, according to noted author and researcher Joel Skousen, he whined to daddy who pulled strings with the Secretary of the Navy...
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