John McCain

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John McCain

-Do you think that victory is at hand in Iraq?

-Oh sure, yeah, we've succeeded. I mean, everybody knows that. We will be. General Petraeus will be recommending, I understand from the media, further troop withdrawals. The government is in control of the Iraqi Army. Now, is Al -Qaeda defeated? No, but they are back on their heels, and so these withdrawals will be dictated by conditions on the ground. But, the fact is, that no rational observer frankly, except Senator Obama, could believe that it hasn't succeeded, and we're emerging victorious, and our troops are going to come home with victory and with honor. If Senator Obama would have had his way, they would have been out last March, and we would have been defeated. We would have a wider war, we would have the Iranian influence increase, and we would have great challenges. Senator Obama was wrong and refused to admit it, and still to this day refuses to admit it.

-Senator, let me ask you about President Bush. I noticed at the Convention, I was in St. Paul, that you didn't mention President Bush by name. Do you think that you have to distance your self from President Bush in order to win the election?

-Well, at the beginning of my remarks I thanked him for the fact that America has not been attacked, since 9-11.

-But not by name, you only said the President.

-Well, I think everybody knows there is only one President right now, but no, I thanked him, and I thanked his father and his mother for their honorable service. But there is no doubt there are differences between myself and President Bush. But there are also differences between myself and members of my party in Congress, who began to value power over principle, who came to Washington to change Washington, and Washington changed them. There is corruption in Washington. Governor Palin and I are going to clean it up.

-Actually, you said in the Convention that change is coming. However, as you would know, Barack Obama said that you have voted 90 percent of the time with President Bush, and he says that that is not change.

-Everybody knows my record, whether it be on spending, whether it be on climate change, whether it be on the way the war in Iraq was conducted. I took on my own party, I was called disloyal by Republicans when I said Rumsfeld's strategy is going to fail, when I fought against the pork barrelers and ear mark spending, in my own party when we had control. Everybody knows about that.

-Are we worse off than four years ago?

-Oh sure, yeah, I mean, I don't think that four years ago we were hurting very badly, I don't think most people do. I think the events of the last year, two years, set up by out of control spending, huge growth in the size of government, failure to exercise any kind of fiscal discipline or care about the tax payers. Those chickens came home to roost, and we've got to change it.

-Senator, the platform of your party says, and I am quoting, "e support the adoption of English as the official language of the United States, and we demand the abolition of bilingual education." Do you agree with this?

-No. Look, it's fine with me if English is the official language, because it is our official language, it is. Anyone that comes to this country that wants to move up the economic ladder, we all know has to learn English, is a requirement for citizenship, so we all know that, but the point is...

-But, most Latinos are bilingual by the way; nine out of ten of Latinos are bilingual.

-Yeah, sure, sure, but Spanish was spoken...

-But, do you support English becoming the official language?

-If you want to call it official, it already is official, official or unofficial, it is our language, but I come from a state where Spanish was spoken before English, o.k.? So, I cherish Spanish language, our heritage, our culture, our food, everything about our Hispanic culture and that is what I want our party and Americans to do. You know, let's have a little straight talk, has our party has been damaged because some of the language that has been used? Yes, but look, I am the guy that took on the issue of immigration reform when it wasn't popular in my party to do so, at least in certain elements of it. I'll enact comprehensive immigration reform, we'll sit down together with democrats, and we'll get it done, but we got to secure our borders, not only because of illegal immigration, but because of drugs.

"President Calderon, right now is waging a battle for the heart and soul of his country, because these drug cartels are taking over towns in Mexico. We all know that,  and we got to help them, and we've started with a Merida initiative that I think it's the first time that Mexican and American authorities are working together to stop the flow of drugs. And if you are going to do that, you got to have secure borders".

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