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Obama Blasts McCain on Immigration Reform
September 10, 2008 9:13 PM
ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: Speaking before the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Gala, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., blasted Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for not including comprehensive immigration reform in his party’s platform.
“And when it came time to write his party’s platform, comprehensive reform never made it in,” Obama said before the institution’s annual gala in Washington, D.C. “So, you’ve got to ask yourself: if Sen. McCain won’t stand up to opponents of reform at his own convention, how can you trust him to stand up for change in Washington?”
Obama said that he admired it when McCain had bucked his party on immigration reform in the past, but said that was a stance McCain walked away from when running for president.
“When he was running for his party’s nomination, he abandoned his stance, and said he wouldn’t even support his own legislation if it came up for a vote,” Obama said to the audience. “Well, I don’t know about you, but I think it’s time for a president who won’t walk away from comprehensive immigration reform when it becomes politically unpopular.”
Wooing the key demographic, Obama told the crowd that he’s not taking one single Hispanic vote for granted this election, referencing John Kerry’s close loss in New Mexico in 2004.
“I need you. I need you to win,” Obama said in closing.
Obama will take his campaign west next week -- campaigning in Colorado on Monday.
September 10, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (128)
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I think Obama should check McCain website before spreading more lies...
Posted by: Norman | Sep 10, 2008 9:22:55 PM
Only elect hard-line anti-illegal immigrant politicians. Illegal Immigration is lowering wages and stealing jobs from legal Americans. This major issue is costing taxpayers too much. Higher property taxes, free health care, education and a multitude of government welfare programs Just take a look at 'Sanctuary City' California's financial demise. $ 11. billion dollars is attributed to the illegal immigrant welfare, who have drained the states funds.
If we enact the Federal SAVE ACT (H.R.4088) enforcement only law. Millions of illegal aliens will leave by self-deportation. ATTRITION! No job, they will leave of their own accord. Only anti-American groups and Liberal-Democrat-Socialists are stopping this law. ASK THEM WHY?
www.numbersusa.com have the uncensored truth? IT'S YOUR FAMILIES FUTURE. DEPORTATION OR OVERPOPULATION.
IF WE DON'T STOP IT NOW, THEY WILL KEEP COMING..
JOIN 756.000 other American patriots at www.numbersusa.com , to stop the travesty of our immigration laws. Learn about Immigration governmental corruption at www.judicialwatch.org
Posted by: Brittanicus | Sep 10, 2008 9:23:55 PM
The link did not appear so here's McCain Immigration agenda..
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/Issues/68db8157-d301-4e22-baf7-a70dd8416efa.htm
Posted by: Norman | Sep 10, 2008 9:24:00 PM
So Norman, which should we believe? The website or the words coming directly from McCain's mouth? Just a question...
Posted by: Craig | Sep 10, 2008 9:35:27 PM
When Obama takes McCain's words out of context, he's out to destroy McCain and Palin. When someone does the same to him, he says they are dividing America. Obama hasn't done a thing to change America and he keeps yelling change.
Posted by: young_voter | Sep 10, 2008 9:38:16 PM
Thank you ABC for posting something regarding an ACTUAL issue. While the Republicans are engaged in their smear and destroy, non-issue, non-American campaign tactics - friends are having to lay off workers due to the economy. Our concern is their ability to find new employment, pay for Cobra healthcare, gas and care for their families while we watch the McCain campaign loose all sense of reality over an old southern saying about lipstick. Perhaps ABC if you will focus on the issues and not nonsense.
Posted by: Paige | Sep 10, 2008 9:41:09 PM
Citizenship for Immigrants - McCain supported a bill with his own name on it allowing illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. Now McCain opposes his own bill.
Immigration Act - McCain cosponsored a Development Relief and Education Aliens Minor Act for immigrants. Now he opposes it
Posted by: Paige | Sep 10, 2008 9:47:01 PM
This is a bad issue for Obama to bring up in this campaign. He is in deep despair if he's trying to use this issue to gain votes. McCain actually learned something when he tried to pass his comprehensive immigration reform bill. He learned that we don't trust Washington. Secure the borders first and then worry about reform. Obama is an open borders guy who could care less about our national security. Now I ask you who would you rather have in the Oval Office?
Posted by: Tom | Sep 10, 2008 9:50:34 PM
I wish that people would just think back 2 years. We did have alot of these problem, high gas and food price,etc.
When the Dems. took over two years ago, they have done everything they could to make Bush and the Repub. look bad. They will not let bills be heard if they are from Repub. It has been very well planned. They honestly believe that the American people are stupid. Are We?
Posted by: Barbara | Sep 10, 2008 10:00:08 PM
Tom, that's why its referred to as a "comprehensive" plan. That would include securing the borders.
Me? I trust Senator Obama.
Country First!
Obama/Biden 08
Posted by: bc46 | Sep 10, 2008 10:01:25 PM
Tom - Obama IS for securing our borders and that is part of his immigration policy.
Posted by: Paige | Sep 10, 2008 10:11:19 PM
Barbara - The Republicans did not need any help from the Democrats to "look bad". They abused their power and the Constitution all on their own.
Posted by: Paige | Sep 10, 2008 10:12:55 PM
Don't you just love that whole "preacher-man" way of talking Obama has adopted? He thinks it makes him look more average Joe if he drops the Ns' from words- huntin'... walkin'. Why is he trying to sound like an old preacher man from the south because 1)he grew up abroad and in Hawaii so he sounds like a joke 2)I don't see how the old time southern preacher voice is attractive to factory-workin' white women.
Posted by: Who? | Sep 10, 2008 10:14:06 PM
old time southern preacher voice?
LOL geez folks, can we just stay on the issues?!
I heard Sean Hannity make a comment yesterday how Senator Obama was intent on tearing down Sarah Palin, which of course is not true. When it came to her family, Senator Obama was the one to say her kids and family were off limits.
The hypocrisy of Hannity is over the top. He has been attacking Senator Obama for the last 20 months, which could be defined as character assasination, as he tears Obama down every day. Sounds like Hannity is stepping back in his own shyt.
Posted by: bc46 | Sep 10, 2008 10:19:18 PM
Lately Obama seems to be drifting from one issue to another - often revising his remarks in an attempt to gain political traction. This tactic shows that his campaign has no central conviction, but appears to be making up policies based upon polling results. Truth is that Obama is still largely unknown, untested, and very inexperienced - not the qualifications required for the US presidency. Behind the rhetoric, there is no substance!
Posted by: Phil | Sep 10, 2008 10:22:34 PM
He's right. McCain is pro-amnesty - and has been a major backer for a very long time, a major sponsor - but he made no attempt to mention or put that anywhere in the Republican platform. Why not? Would he prefer to keep this part of his political agenda quiet? I don't like either candidate on this issue - I'm extremely anti-amnesty of any kind, under any name, and they're both pro - but hiding your positions, letting it slide by and hoping the voters don't notice is not honest.
Posted by: Susan | Sep 10, 2008 10:24:39 PM
What makes John McCain a 'maverick'?
Is it the way he buckled to the RIGHT on immigration, now saying he wouldn't even vote for his own bill?
Is it for saying the Bush tax cuts for the rich that were 'unconscienceable' when they were passed are now a good idea.
Is it for hiring the people he once called the 'agents of intolerance' to spread slander about Barack Obama?
Is it for protecting the big pharma companies, saying that America should remain the ONLY industrialized country in the world that does not use its own buying power to get the wholesale price?
Is it for saying 'screw you' to Lilly Ledbetter and all working women, saying that women like Lilly Ledbetter who can prove they were intentionally paid less money because they are female: They should 'work harder'.
Is it for protecting the indecent system in this country where you can die of cancer without treatment if you don't have insurance?
Or is it for protecting the indecent system where the middle class can face bankruptcy simply because they got sick?
Could it be because the man is completely deaf, dumb and blind to the fact that the middle class wages have gone NOWHERE, while the cost of feeding your family, driving to work, providing a home has gone higher and higher?
Posted by: John's conscience | Sep 10, 2008 10:27:19 PM
I used to like mccain because he promised to run an honorable campaign. No longer. He has resorted to the lowest of the low mudslinging, distortions, and lies.
I thought we had a chance of actually having an election based on the real issues. Nope.
Since it really appears to me that McCain is the far worse of the two in the mudslinging -- I'm going to vote Obama.
Posted by: honorable | Sep 10, 2008 10:35:31 PM
A maverick is a person who is unpredictable. McCain is certainly unpredictable --- he's flip flopped on just about every issue imaginable. I don't think this is what I want in a president.
Posted by: mavrick | Sep 10, 2008 10:36:45 PM
A maverick is a person who calls chelsea clinton (who was just a teenager) ugly in public then pretends to get upset at the use of the phrase "lipstick on a pig" which he himself used to refer to Hillary's policies only a few months ago.
Maybe maverick means hypocrite.
Posted by: mavrick2 | Sep 10, 2008 10:39:20 PM
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