Posts Tagged ‘amnesty’

Now that the race is down to Obama vs. McCain we can start analyzing the important issues that will decide the election. Those issues are plain for everyone to see they include oil prices, the war on terror, health-care and that candidates age/experience. I will get to them in a future article, for now I want to focus on one issue that will not be mentioned in this campaign even though the American voters are very passionate about it: Illegal Immigration.

Not long ago illegal immigration looked like it would be one of the key issues in this election cycle. The American people are fed up with the effects of illegal immigration and they have shown their displeasure by passing tough local laws, by forming citizen groups to patrol the borders and by rejecting the McCain-Kennedy comprehensive immigration reform act.

Polls consistanly show that between 65% and 81% of Americans want something done to reduce illegal immigration. A border fence is wildly popular among Republican voters.

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18
Jan

Fred’s The Man!

Posted by: Curt @ 10:38 pm in Fred Thompson

You gotta love Fred, here he is talking about his method of dealing with earmarks and activist judges (you know, those who would ensure the Constitution really was a “living, breathing document”)

Man: (Pause) I’m looking for a tall man who will stand tall for America. (Pause.) Who will cut the ears off of earmarks! (Pause.) Stop dead illegal immigration! (Pause.) And pull the teeth of activist judges…

Thompson: Yep.

Man: … who take your house to build 7-Eleven! (Pause, then louder) And I want to know if you’ve got a Jim Bowie knife and a good strong pair (pause) of Channellock pliers! (Laughter, even more applause, calls of “That’s right!” and “Hear, hear!”)

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