
The irony being that F-bomb dropping McCain would demand courtesy from those he disagrees with. During a campaign event in Michigan, McCain quickly learned that AFL-CIO members are less-than-pleased with his open-borders, amnesty-granting positions.
Sen. John McCain threatened Tuesday to cut short a speech to union leaders who booed his immigration views and later challenged his statements on organized labor and the Iraq war.
“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.
“OK, then please give me the courtesy I would give you.”
Yeah, courtesy for the opposition on immigration. Right.
…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.
“I’ve heard that statement before,” McCain said before threatening to leave.
Afterward, the senator said he offered to cut his speech short “because I wanted to be heard.”
McCain’s sudden change of heart isn’t authentic, but only a politically-convenient alteration. He continues to insist the shamnesty he and his buddy Ted Kennedy tried to shove down our throats last year wasn’t amnesty.


by Stephan Tawney on January 14, 2008