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The John McCain Only Illegal Immigrants Can Know
Posted by Raven on July 11th, 2008
Uugh. My appetite just went south after reading this.
When Sen. John McCain speaks to the nation’s largest Hispanic rights group this weekend, he will face an audience increasingly confused about his immigration position and looking for a declaration that he remains the same champion with whom they have worked for two decades.
“He needs to demonstrate that he still is the John McCain that we think we know,” said Cecilia Munoz, a vice president at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), which opens its annual convention Friday in San Diego.
So McCain needs to demonstrate he is no different than Obama on the immigration debacle issue. Will he stand up and tell Americans they are as important as illegal non Americans? Hmm.
She said the senator from Arizona is well-known and respected for his military service and for his long relationship with Hispanic groups nationally and in his home state, but now is “also working to attract the votes of the side of his party that doesn’t like us. … There’s a pretty anti-Latino tone to that conversation, and it’s not clear to me how you appeal to that side of the party and to the Latino vote at the same time.”
“A grand slam for John McCain at NCLR’s conference would be to stand up and say, ‘I know there’s people saying offensive stuff and I reject it,’” Ms. Munoz said in an interview previewing the convention. “‘There’s no place for that, in my party or in the political process.’”
Anti Latino? No dumb bitch. It’s anti-illegal-immigrant. If the shoe fits and you’re blushing with some shame, so be it. And if McCain gets up and makes that statement, he will not get my vote. Period. He has no business telling ME, an American citizen, to tone down or muffle MY discourse with his stances. How unAmerican that would be of McCain. It would not surprise me to hear him speak those words.
July 12th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Raven, I am THIS close to voting Libertarian for president… going to probably have to puta Bob Barr ‘08 in the side bar to replace the McCain ‘08 one… probably still vote Republican in the Texas Senate and for my Representative though….
And just when the Green Party couldn’t seem any crazier or loonier…. Cynthia McKinney has a chance to be their presidential nominee!!??!!