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McCain Speaks with Forked Tongue--AGAIN!!!

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Anonymous

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Lou Dobbs had this lady on the show last night- and she said that McCain is flat promising amnesty while talking to the Hispanics- and then saying the opposite when he talks to anyone else....She called this a "secret meeting" as she was told it was a private meeting with Hispanic leaders...

Dobbs brought up the fact that while McCain was pandering to Hispanics by saying Spanish was speaken in his homestate Arizona long before English--he forgot that the Native American dialects were there much much earlier... :shock:

Sounds like a second Bush- promise anything today- do whatever your heart desires tomorrow....... :(

Both Barr and Baldwin look better and better every day!!!!!


McCain Double-Talk on Immigration?
June 20, 2008 12:26 PM

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., met Wednesday evening with Hispanic Republicans in Chicago.

In an Associated Press story about the meeting, one quote jumped out at me: "He's one John McCain in front of white Republicans. And he's a different John McCain in front of Hispanics," Rosanna Pulido, a Latina who heads the Illinois Minuteman Project, told the AP. "He's having his private meetings to rally Hispanics and to tell them what they want to hear," she said. "I'm outraged that he would reach out to me as a Hispanic but not as a conservative."
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Pulido found out about the McCain meeting from a local newspaper, the Beacon News. She called the McCain campaign contact and let them know where she stood on the issue of illegal immigration, but said as a conservative and a Hispanic, she wanted to attend the meeting. She was curious as to what McCain was going to say.

"I have friends in Washington, DC, on this issue," she says. "We've had conversations on this issue." After comprehensive immigration reform was killed in the Senate and McCain changed his rhetoric on the subject on the campaign trail, Pulido says, "we were hopeful after John McCain started saying, 'I understand where the American people are coming from, there's gotta be enforcement first,' we thought great, he's had a change of heart."

So she went to the meeting, a room full of 150-200 people. "Sure enough," Pulido says, "his mantra at the meeting was comprehensive immigration reform.' And there were cheers and applause whenever he mentioned comprehensive immigration reform."

"Then he said, 'I bet some of you don't know this -- did you know Spanish was spoken in Arizona before English?' And the crowd roared. I was appalled," Pulido said. "He was pandering to these people -- that's what they wanted to hear."
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He was telling one group of people one thing and the Hispanics another," says Pulido. "I'm a conservative and I think he's throwing conservatives under the bus."

Pulido doesn't know who she will vote for and says she may not know until election day. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, is not an option. "I'd never ever vote for Barack Obama," she says. "He was an Illinois state senator and unlike the rest of the nation, I know who Barack Obama is, he's too liberal for me."

What she saw of John McCain Wednesday night, however, makes her inclined right now to support Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/06/title----mcca-1.html
 

Goodpasture

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McCain is between a rock and a hard place. If he attempts to move to the center to attract cross overs and moderates, he alienates the Christian right and the neocons and what is considered the Republican Base. If he attempts to placate or attract the "base" he loses the center. The ONE thing he cannot do is unite the two against a common enemy, the way the Republicans did over the past two elections. Attempting to demonize Obama isn't working as Obama is saying things that the majority of the nation feels or believes......that the tax cuts that Bush put in place are largely responsible for the economic woes we are in now, that the secret meetings between Cheney and the energy executives (including Enron) are largely responsible for the current cost of energy, that Bush lied to get us into Iraq, that Bush has mismanaged everything from the economy, to the war, to immigration, to disasters, to energy, to health care, to veterans benefits, to tax breaks, etc etc etc. There is not ONE single area where Bush and 8 years of Republican rule has not screwed up. All Obama has to do is run against the Republican record and he wins. McCain, on the other hand, must bring together a bunch of people who are pointing fingers and saying it is each others fault. Republicans are saying "The tax cuts were ok but excessive." "The war was good, but we should not be nation building." etc etc etc etc.............for everything that Republicans can point to that was good, it is always followed by a "but." And it is always things like "The war was good, but Rumsfeld didn't plan it right." So there is always a Republican to point the blame at....Rummy, Brownie, Gonzales, Cheney, to name a few....the last good and effective Republican was Colin Powell, and he quit after he was lied to, retaining his integrity, but portending the collapse of the neocon philosophy.
 
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Goodpasture said:
the last good and effective Republican was Colin Powell, and he quit after he was lied to, retaining his integrity, but portending the collapse of the neocon philosophy.

AMEN-- and Powell has said on several occasions that his experiences with King George and his Neocon Administration could lead him to vote for Obama....


Colin Powell slams Bush
might vote for Obama;
Former U.S. secretary of state says presidential voting decision will be based on passion and policies
Doug Ward, Vancouver Sun
Published: Friday, June 13, 2008

He was a four-star American general, the secretary of state during President George W. Bush's first term and remains a Republican.

But Colin Powell said Thursday in Vancouver that he is considering voting for Democrat Barack Obama in November -- and he took shots at the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war and the holding of terrorism suspects in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Powell told a crowd of about 1,000 people at the Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre that he hasn't decided whether to support Obama or Republican John McCain for the U.S. presidency.

Powell said that Obama's life story sums up the "American dream" and he described McCain as the "toughest man I've ever met."

Powell said he told both candidates recently that he has not decided which one will have his coveted endorsement.

The African-American former general said his decision won't be based on the race or military experience of the candidates, but on their passion and policies.

The former secretary of state discussed the controversy that drew a small but loud protest outside the convention centre -- Powell's use of flawed intelligence during his 2003 presentation at the United Nations to sell the world on the invasion of Iraq.

Powell told the audience that he wouldn't have agreed with the decision to go to war had he known that the data about Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction was exaggerated.

Powell said that every word of what he called his "infamous" presentation about WMD had been vetted by the intelligence community -- "and I had no reason to disbelieve it."

The former secretary of state has previously described his prewar UN speech as a "blot" on his record.

Powell went on to say that the Bush administration fell into "disarray" over how to govern Iraq after it overthrew Hussein.

"If we had handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad differently then we wouldn't be where we are today," said Powell.

He said the new president should "draw down" the number of American troops in Iraq and hand more responsibility to Iraqi forces.

Powell said the use of torture and denial of habeas corpus at the prison for suspected terrorists at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo has diminished America's standing in the world. "It [Guantanamo] is not seen as a place that is consistent with what America says justice will be."

Powell said the harshness of Guantanamo has also given "cover to a lot of really bad people around the world who say: 'Hey, don't lecture me, look at what you're doing.' "

Powell said that torture, including water-boarding, should stop at Guantanamo and that terrorism suspects should be given lawyers and afforded all the rights of the American criminal justice system.

Powell also said that the American war on terrorism has gone too far in deterring foreigners from entering the U.S., and rules governing entry to the U.S. must be relaxed.

Many well-qualified people from around the world are deciding not to study at American universities or work at medical clinics because of their fear of being hassled by U.S. authorities, he added.

"We will not be terrified into changing our way of life because of some guy [Osama bin Laden] hiding in a cave somewhere in Afghanistan."

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=91beb024-7b54-450b-b4f8-bbbf224599cd
 
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