John McCain: "If you like, I will leave"

Earlier today, John McCain was booed because of his immigration schemes. Unfortunately, his threat to leave appears to have been just one big jolly jape:

"If you like, I will leave," McCain told the AFL-CIO's Building and Construction Trades Department, pivoting briefly from the lectern. He returned to the microphone after the crowd quieted...

...the senator outlined his position on the Senate immigration debate, saying tougher border enforcement must be accompanied by guest-worker provisions that give illegal immigrants a legal path toward citizenship.

Murmurs from the crowd turned to booing. "Pay a decent wage!" one audience member shouted...

...But he took more questions, including a pointed one on his immigration plan.

McCain responded by saying immigrants were taking jobs nobody else wanted. He offered anybody in the crowd $50 an hour to pick lettuce in Arizona.

Shouts of protest rose from the crowd, with some accepting McCain's job offer.

"I'll take it!" one man shouted.

McCain insisted none of them would do such menial labor for a complete season. "You can't do it, my friends."

Some in the crowd said they didn't appreciate McCain questioning their work ethic...

What exactly was the "pointed" question? Shouldn't they disclose that?

And, what exactly is a U.S. Senator trying to say about American workers? We sent a man to the moon and now we're too soft to pick strawberries?

And, what exactly is he trying to say about Mexican field workers? Are they genetically pre-disposed to fruit-picking? Or, do they just have the right level of desperation?

Politics · Tue, 04/04/2006 - 20:08 · · Importance: 1

Comments

CNN Had a web address for A job application to accept TRAITOR John McCain's 50 buck an hour job offer. The address the gave was www.projectusa.com, but it isn't located there? does anyone know the proper web location?

Posted by: JB at Apr 14, 2006 8:56 AM

"Nothing surprising here, McCain has a long history of public displays of mental instability"

I recently read that McCain

Posted by: D Flinchum at Apr 5, 2006 5:22 PM

Nothing surprising here, McCain has a long history of public displays of mental instability.

Posted by: perroazul del norte at Apr 5, 2006 9:41 AM

Kind of makes you wonder if McCain really wants the job. At this point in the game, the idea is to make friends, not piss people off. Once you're in office, then you can start to stick it to the people who put you there. See: George W. Bush.

Posted by: Gary at Apr 5, 2006 6:32 AM

it should tell us something if the advocates of illegal aliens, continually find it necessary to lie about the value of their work, when they even have a job. If we actually reached that nirvana where $50/hour menial jobs would be turned down by almost any political event attendees, that would be the time also, that we stopped growing lettuce the old-fashioned way. In fact it may be already past time that such phases of commercial agriculture be stamped out, and replaced by more productive ones.
Aggression through net public subsidy, is being used to maintain such unproductive practices, and that is an evil which must be suppressed, more and more, all the time.

Posted by: John S Bolton at Apr 5, 2006 2:00 AM

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