Amanda Carpenter: Obama AWOL on Immigration Reform

townhall.com 08-Jul-2008

One of John McCain’s Latino surrogates forcefully said Barack Obama is deceitfully inflating his role in the Senate on immigration reform for political benefit. Prompting the criticism a claim Obama made before the League of United Latin American Citizens Tuesday. “I reached across the aisle in the Senate to fight for comprehensive immigration reform,” Obama told the immigration advocates. The Cuban-born Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R.-Fla.) said Obama didn’t deserve any credit for advancing the bill in a conference call on behalf of the McCain campaign. “He was AWOL!” Diaz-Balart said. “I remember when Senator McCain came over here and met with House leadership and he met with the Chairman at that time of the Judiciary, Sensenbrenner here in the House to move this issue. To move the issue forward in meeting after meeting where... [read full story]

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(anonymous) - 08-Jul-2008 00:21:56

Wow ... what a creep Kerry is. He had approached McCain as a running mate ... McCain defended Kerry when he was being unfairly attacked ... Kerry demeans McCain's judgement, when it was McCain who came up with the surge, which worked! And, Kerry is choosing Obama, who has no experience, voted present 100 times in the senate, and never voted on the committee he chaired, and spent 20 years in Jeremiah Wright's anti-American, racist church. And, Kerry is saying McCain has poor judgement??? Thank God Kerry wasn't elected President ... and, God help us if Obama is elected President.

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