McCain refused to believe that Americans would accept a job picking lettuce for $50 per hour

[Douglas Carpenter]

This was at a 2006 AFL-CIO convention:

Here is the You-Tube Video - McCaint :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpB9OoOU02M

Here is the link to MSNBC Article:

link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12155322 /

"McCain responded by saying immigrants were taking jobs nobody else wanted. He offered anybody in the crowd $50 an hour to pick lettuce in Arizona.

Shouts of protest rose from the crowd, with some accepting McCain’s job offer.

“I’ll take it!” one man shouted. "

links:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12155322 /

you tube video - McCaint:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpB9OoOU02M

[grannie4peace]

1. we need to keep this alive for a long time.

i make damn good money--even if it's part time & it's no where near $50. there isn't a brain in that man head... i have no idea what is in there but it isn't a brain!!!! it's too tragic to be funny

[Douglas Carpenter]

3. it is perfectly clear from listening to him that he assumed all the workers at that convention

made much more than $50 per hour.

I wonder how much he thinks the help around any of his seven different houses make?

[Suji to Seoul]

66. McCain just insulted every American and the great American work ethic

You pay a good enough wage, Americans will shovel crap off a baboon's ass!

McAdulterer doesn't get it, since he has the little bimbo. . .I mean wife pay for everything.

Jackass!

[Douglas Carpenter]

67. that is EXACTLY why I believe this story has to go viral NOW!!

There are some really big myths perpetrated by the media about John McCain. One of them is that he is a maverick and a moderate. Another is that he is some kind of foreign policy expert - Good Lord, he couldn't pass good eighth grade geography quiz. And three - that he is just an ordinary guy who has something in common with ordinary Americans

[Indenturedebtor]

68. I would pick McBush's BRAIN for 50 bucks an hour....

What a Puke. Completely out of touch, and completely dismissive of the American populace.

[Suji to Seoul]

71. Out of touch and dismissive. . .hmmm, there's a word to describe that

ELITIST!!!

But, that word only applies to black people who don't know their place and want to run for president, right, Johnny?

[Indenturedebtor]

73. Hah I know... the doublethink is truly astonishing. Or doublespeak anyways n/t

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[tekisui]

2. knr!

[Quantess]

54. Mc Cain defined "rich" as 5 million annual income.

I guess middle class means 3 million a year, Obama replied.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x170676

[tinrobot]

5. Let them eat cake.

[pacalo]

6. My word! I'll gladly pick some lettuce!

[FreakinDJ]

7. What a JERK - if that don't prove he Hates American Workers

Guaranteed he'll ship every last American job out of the country

[Douglas Carpenter]

9. It is clear from the conversation at that convention that he "just naturally" assumed that all those

union members present were making far more than $50 per hour.

It's a level of astonishing cluelessness,

[FreakinDJ]

11. Elitist cocksucker that doesn't have a clue

Fuck - the guy is wrong about every thing

Economy-
Workers-
Defense-

What a fucking catastrophe waiting to happen

[Douglas Carpenter]

20. this is the kind of elitism I have heard from upper classes in third world countries

I live in the Philippines part of the year. And I have found that most upper class Filipinos in spite of driving miles past incredible poverty every single day of their life, in spite of employing lots of people from the overwhelmingly poor majority - they just live in an unreality that assumes "every body" lives just like them in gated communities and ostentatious wealth with children all going to elite private schools.

And they believe this illusion in spite of being confronted with reality on all sides every single day of their lives.

When John McCain posited that 5 million dollars per year is what defined someone as rich. I think that he genuinely believes that. Just as John McCain genuinely thinks undocumented Mexican farm workers make $50 per hour and average working Americans must make double that.

[LiberalEsto]

8. I'd be happy to pick it for $25 an hour

There's not much work available these days for an older woman with a long career in the newspaper business.

Of the six papers I worked for, only one still exists -- and its staff was just told that if 26% of them don't take a buyout, the paper will be sold.

[SocratesInSpirit]

34. My husband said the same thing!

He'd happily pick lettuce for $25 an hour. Hell, I'd happily pick lettuce, too!

Seriously, is McCain THAT clueless??? (this is a rhetorical question, of course) They only pay about 3 bucks an hour for picking produce, I thought, which is mainly why Americans aren't willing to do the job. McCain's $50/hr figure shows how astonishingly clueless he is about what things really cost and how much people get paid. I guess when you're wealthy enough to live on accounts, you lose all concept of pricing. But the thing that really busts my chops is that they're trying to paint Obama as the elitist one!

McCain is an arrogant swine. :mad:

[Connonym]

51. hey now, let's not be undercutting. The man offered $50 don't give him a deal

Because next thing you know some asshole will be starting a temp agency, charging $50 bucks an hour, collecting $25 off the top and then giving the worker only $25.

It pisses me off that we're all (myself included) so scared of losing our jobs that we're willing to get screwed over by the threat that if we don't take a paltry wage some other guy will be grateful for the chance to get screwed even worse by doing the same job for less than us.

I'd love to see unionism rise again but I fear it will take some very dire conditions before people are able to reverse the anti-union mindset that's taken over the country.

[rucognizant]

77. Or the art business.!

I plucked a phone number off a bulletin board yesterday, for blueberry rakers.
I am 69, my knees are not what they used to be..............but I am considering doing it. I have $7.00 until Sept 3rd SS income next paycheck,.......( less than $1.00 a day like 3rd world countries)
I need $600. to replace my leaking fuel tank on my diesel rabbit, and God only knows how much to fix my well which has coliform bacteria. ( I suspect it will have to be dug up and patched, as it was built in 1965.........
My art Gallery has been open for 2 weeks...........1 person has come in!

[FreakinDJ]

10. Wish the Son of Bitch would have said that to me

15 years ago when I had to dig ditches to make a living, AND A EARNED A WHOLE LOT LESS THEN $50 per hr

110 degrees some of those days and I would go through a 2 gal jug of water by myself. But the kids needed to eat and we wanted a place to live

[Jim__]

12. He not only says, "won't do it" at the end he says "can't do it."

Obama should make a TV ad out of this.

[Douglas Carpenter]

13. May I recommend posting this on EVERY BLOG AND FORUM and E-mailing to everyone

this info needs to go viral:

Here is the You-Tube Video - McCaint :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpB9OoOU02M

Here is the link to MSNBC Article:

link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12155322 /

"McCain responded by saying immigrants were taking jobs nobody else wanted. He offered anybody in the crowd $50 an hour to pick lettuce in Arizona.

Shouts of protest rose from the crowd, with some accepting McCain’s job offer.

“I’ll take it!” one man shouted. "

links:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12155322 /

you tube video - McCaint:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpB9OoOU02M

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And this is something you might want to include as well:

Why the McCain house gaffe matters

I STONGLY RECOMMEND READING AND SAVING THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE AND SENDING IT TO EVERYONE ON YOUR ADDRESS LIST

link:

http://roguecolumnist.typepad.com/rogue_columnist/2008/08/why-the-mccain.html

please note: I added the references below from the links embedded in the original article

http://roguecolumnist.typepad.com/rogue_columnist/2008/08/why-the-mccain.html

President-elect McCain's inability to recall how many houses.(1) he owns fits into a larger and more troubling pattern. The problem is not just that he is an out-of-touch rich guy.

This is the candidate who repeatedly confused Shiite and Sunni (2)-- all the while trumpeting his expertise on the Middle East. At one point, his sock puppet Joe Lieberman had to whisper the facts in his ear.(3) He couldn't tell Sudan from Somalia.(4) He kept talking about a nation that hasn't existed for years.(5) Iraq and Pakistan share a border, the senator wrongly said, and the Sunni awakening happened 'after' the surge (6) (edited out by CBS (7)). He said he didn't know much about economics,(8) then denied saying such a thing. He spoke of a withdrawal timetable one day, then denied saying it later. He volunteered Cindy for a topless contest.(9) Then there was the stupendous dead space and mumbling when he was questioned about claiming Obama was playing the race card.(10) He claimed he walked through Baghdad without body armor or protection, etc., etc.(11) Most of this has been captured on tape.

What's going on? Neither obvious answer is comforting. He's either going senile as he nears 72, or he's lying and unprepared on critical issues without realizing how easily this can be caught in a YouTube era. (Whether the duhs and ignos -- those 'undecided voters' and angry Clintonites -- will care, is another, depressing matter). Either one of these answers should disqualify him for the White House, particularly because so many of his misstatements, confusions and subsequent lies come about issues where he claims superior experience and judgment.

But next consider all his flip flops, over torture, warrantless wiretapping, tax cuts, Social Security, abortion rights, engaging with Hamas, nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, offshore drilling, etc. Once the presumptive nominee, he said Social Security was "an absolute disgrace.'(12) His chief economic adviser and likely Treasury secretary called Americans a 'nation of whiners' and said the recession was in our heads.(13) This from a rich man who helped deregulate banking, profited from it, then profited again from the current deregulated banking crisis. Soon after McCain reversed course to support drilling, oil industry contributions poured in.(14)

The above is not a disjointed laundry list. When we combine it with McCain's obvious mental fatigue, the really disturbing picture comes clear.

1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/21/AR2008082103532.html?nav=hcmodule

2.http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Once_again_McCain_confuses_Sunnis_with_0408.html

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6GBdyws5YU

4. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/01/mccain-confuses-somalia-a_n_110152.html

5. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/14/mccain-references-non-exi_n_112650.html

6. http://gawker.com/5028170/how-bad-are-mccains-gaffes

7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDIAsS9VXiM

8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1X3efvVTLA

9. http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/08/mccain-voluntee.html

10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfkKk2C1W1c

11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpKGhut209o&NR=1

12. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/203377.php

13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NVjq2py7BA

14. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/26/AR2008072601891.html

.

[C_U_L8R]

14. How much does he pay his servants

who care for his mansions and cater to his personal whims ???

[Douglas Carpenter]

15. I have a suspicion that he doesn't know.

It is quite clear from his conversation that he assumes almost everyone makes more than $50 per hour

[C_U_L8R]

17. Someone should ask him.

How much does his butler make or how much was his groundskeeper's christmas bonus?

[Douglas Carpenter]

48. I suspect it is no where near $50 per hour, but I doubt he would know

[ljm2002]

18. Not sure about their hourly wages...

...but here's a little tidbit about the McCains' budget: "Mark Kleiman says 'If you had made last year as much money as John McCain spent on household help alone — $273,000 — you’d be richer than 95% of American families.'"

[hedgehog]

19. We should ask THAT question night and day. He has 7 houses

including the 15 acre "ranch". He claims to have paid people $273,000 to take care of them last year.


http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12700.html

That sounds like a lot of money, but let's see: 7 houses; dusted, kitchen stocked, linens fresh ready 24/7 for the McCain's to drop in on their private jet, that's all for roughly $30,000 a year each.

You got to figure Cindy doesn't do the cooking or laundry.......



How much you want to bet he pays people cash under the table to take care of his houses? I'll offer double or nothing they don't all have green cards, either.

[Douglas Carpenter]

65. I totally agree

There are three basic falsehoods the media has been promoting about John McCain. There are plenty of others. But these three are the most patently ridiculous and most frequently repeated:

1. He is a maverick/moderate Republican

2. He is an ordinary guy - just like most Americans

3. He is a foreign policy expert. Good God!! He couldn't pass a good eighth grade geography exam

These falsehood must be exposed for what they are

[endthewar]

16. $50 per hour = $100,000 per year

Assuming a 40-hour work week and 2 weeks of vacation. I think phrasing it this way makes McCain sound even more out of touch.

[bunkerbuster1]

69. Fine by me, but as someone who's hyped this story earlier, myself

be prepared for the nitpickers who say McCain stipulates it's just for the harvest season.

I still think it's plenty obvious that there are millions upon millions of Americans from all walks of life who'd pay their own way to get to the crops, and pay for temporary housing, in order to get a harvest season's worth of 50 dollar/hour pay.

[hedgehog]

21. It's a smear on many different levels:

It's also a case of "Look at all the money those migrant laborers make, the lucky dogs!" with just a hint of "those illegals are stealing our jobs" in addition to the slam that Americans won't work.

[LostInAnomie]

22. Shit!! I used to pick melons, and detassel corn for $6.25/hr.

That ignorant ass really has no idea what kind of money normal people live off. You offer $50/hr and you'll have people fighting to get out in those fields.

[beac]

23. K&R!

[lonestarnot]

24. Out of touch and fucking lumpy on the eyes.

[Douglas Carpenter]

70. that is what people need to know about John McCain

that is why I hope people will post and E-mail this story everywhere and to everyone

[Patiod]

25. He probably meant $5 an hour

But pretty funny that he said $50.

Think of the funny gaffes he'd make as president! "Trillion" dollar deficits when he really meant "billions". "Attack Iran" when he really meant "leave Iraq"! "Gut social security" when he really meant "gut social security". Fun, fun, fun.

[adamuu]

26. i was just thinking that.. agreed.

but still, funny.

[JerseygirlCT]

31. $5, $50... it's all little people money -

they'll never make $5 million a year.

[Douglas Carpenter]

40. I think if you listen carefully it is absolutely clear he meant $50 per hour

he was questioned and challenged and he repeated and repeated the claim

He just had no idea what kind of income ordinary Americans made.

There is no possible way ANYONE can listen to his comments which he firmly stood his ground on when challenged - and conclude that he meant $5 per hour.

He genuinely thought that most Americans made a lot more than $50 per hour. It is impossible to listen to his comments and conclude otherwise.

[Patiod]

42. Wow, if that's true, he's even worse thaen I thought

that just shows a level of cluelessness that's astounding.

Saying "no one would pick lettuce in the Arizona sun for $5/hour" is actually reasonable. Saying "no one would pick lettuce for $50" is insane.

[Odin2005]

27. Allmost anyone will work someplace if they are paid enough.

The "illegal immigrants do jobs Americans refuse to do" is an insult against Americans, it's basically calling us lazy. BS BS BS. It's a Corporatist lie used as an excuse to pay crap wages.

[mzmolly]

28. I remember that. When you don't know how many houses you own,

out of touch doesn't begin to cover it.

[misanthrope]

29. This should be in a TV ad...

I've been saying it for months.

The ultimate would be to run said ad in the middle of the GOP convention to boot.

[Douglas Carpenter]

63. my thoughs exactly

[Gabi Hayes]

30. hand these out at the convention:

[Gabi Hayes]

32. WHY aren't the dems making a hugh issue out of this?

they should have had this on the (dinner) table long before the convention, so that the public would have some inkling about this.

hope they're going to incorporate it into some sort of 'out of touch on the economy' theme

it SHOULD be easy, especially since there's so much out there in his own words, as well as those of his top advisors and buddies (Gramm and Bush, for starters)

[Douglas Carpenter]

50. I totally agree that's one of the reasons why I posted this -- I hope everyone post this on every

forum and blog and sends this information to everyone on their E-mail list

[Gabi Hayes]

33. they need a ''lettuce come together'' ad to go with this one:

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=WRV8Q9IBDxk

[bulloney]

35. The church service at the GOP convention can open with 'Lettuce Pray."

[struggle4progress]

36. $50 an Hour to Pick Lettuce? You Bet (AFLCIONOW/April 2006)

by Tula Connell, Apr 5, 2006

... McCain then offered anybody in the crowd $50 an hour to pick lettuce in Arizona.

When some union leaders said they’d accept his offer, the expensive-suited Washington, D.C., politician insisted none of them would do such menial labor for a complete season.

Said McCain: “You can’t do it, my friends.”

Anyone taking bets on whether McCain or building and construction trades guys would last longer working in the hot sun for 12 hours a day?

http://blog.aflcio.org/2006/04/05/50-an-hour-to-pick-lettuce-you-bet/

[BlooInBloo]

37. My favorite McPOW moment.

[struggle4progress]

38. McCain's lettuce-picking remarks yield unwanted green (April 2006)

Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona
Published: 04.15.2006

... McCain has been getting skewered in the media for comments earlier this month to a union group in Washington, D.C., that immigrants are taking jobs no one else wants, and offered them $50 an hour to pick lettuce in the Arizona sun for a summer, suggesting they couldn't do it.

The senator didn't stick around long enough to process any applications, despite several offers to take him up on his offer from the audience.

So Friday more than three dozen demonstrators showed up at his office, many carrying lettuce picker applications in one hand, and a head of lettuce in the other to show they could do the job ...

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/border/124762

[demilib]

39. You better believe I would take it!

The man is seriously out of touch.

[Douglas Carpenter]

41. kick

[goodgd_yall]

43. Obama needs an ad with this tidbit in it

Not only is McCain insulting the American worker, but showing his complete ignorance of how to stay solvent. If he had an agricultural operation paying that much per hour, he'd go bust in a couple of days!

[Douglas Carpenter]

44. ANY MORE RECOMMENDS, PLEASE!!! This story needs to go viral NOW!!

My I STRONLY RECOMMEND posting this story everywhere and sending this on every E-mail list you have!!

McCain refused to believe that Americans would accept a job picking lettuce for $50 per hour

This was at a 2006 AFL-CIO convention:

Here is the You-Tube Video - McCaint :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpB9OoOU02M

Here is the link to MSNBC Article:

link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12155322 /

"McCain responded by saying immigrants were taking jobs nobody else wanted. He offered anybody in the crowd $50 an hour to pick lettuce in Arizona.

Shouts of protest rose from the crowd, with some accepting McCain’s job offer.

“I’ll take it!” one man shouted. "

links:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12155322 /

you tube video - McCaint:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpB9OoOU02M

-------------------

AND I ALSO STONGLY RECOMMEND READING AND SAVING THIS ORIGINAL ARTICLE AND SENDING IT TO EVERYONE ON YOUR ADDRESS LIST

Why the McCain house gaffe matters --

link:

http://roguecolumnist.typepad.com/rogue_columnist/2008/08/why-the-mccain.html

please note: I added the references below from the links embedded in the original article

http://roguecolumnist.typepad.com/rogue_columnist/2008/08/why-the-mccain.html

President-elect McCain's inability to recall how many houses.(1) he owns fits into a larger and more troubling pattern. The problem is not just that he is an out-of-touch rich guy.

This is the candidate who repeatedly confused Shiite and Sunni (2)-- all the while trumpeting his expertise on the Middle East. At one point, his sock puppet Joe Lieberman had to whisper the facts in his ear.(3) He couldn't tell Sudan from Somalia.(4) He kept talking about a nation that hasn't existed for years.(5) Iraq and Pakistan share a border, the senator wrongly said, and the Sunni awakening happened 'after' the surge (6) (edited out by CBS (7)). He said he didn't know much about economics,(8) then denied saying such a thing. He spoke of a withdrawal timetable one day, then denied saying it later. He volunteered Cindy for a topless contest.(9) Then there was the stupendous dead space and mumbling when he was questioned about claiming Obama was playing the race card.(10) He claimed he walked through Baghdad without body armor or protection, etc., etc.(11) Most of this has been captured on tape.

What's going on? Neither obvious answer is comforting. He's either going senile as he nears 72, or he's lying and unprepared on critical issues without realizing how easily this can be caught in a YouTube era. (Whether the duhs and ignos -- those 'undecided voters' and angry Clintonites -- will care, is another, depressing matter). Either one of these answers should disqualify him for the White House, particularly because so many of his misstatements, confusions and subsequent lies come about issues where he claims superior experience and judgment.

But next consider all his flip flops, over torture, warrantless wiretapping, tax cuts, Social Security, abortion rights, engaging with Hamas, nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, offshore drilling, etc. Once the presumptive nominee, he said Social Security was "an absolute disgrace.'(12) His chief economic adviser and likely Treasury secretary called Americans a 'nation of whiners' and said the recession was in our heads.(13) This from a rich man who helped deregulate banking, profited from it, then profited again from the current deregulated banking crisis. Soon after McCain reversed course to support drilling, oil industry contributions poured in.(14)

The above is not a disjointed laundry list. When we combine it with McCain's obvious mental fatigue, the really disturbing picture comes clear.

1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/21/AR2008082103532.html?nav=hcmodule

2.http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Once_again_McCain_confuses_Sunnis_with_0408.html

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6GBdyws5YU

4. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/01/mccain-confuses-somalia-a_n_110152.html

5. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/14/mccain-references-non-exi_n_112650.html

6. http://gawker.com/5028170/how-bad-are-mccains-gaffes

7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDIAsS9VXiM

8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1X3efvVTLA

9. http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/08/mccain-voluntee.html

10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfkKk2C1W1c

11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpKGhut209o&NR=1

12. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/203377.php

13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NVjq2py7BA

14. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/26/AR2008072601891.html

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[louis c]

45. my personal experience

I am a union President and I get so many men and women looking for work, I can't count them.

recently, a very strong young man came to me from a friend who wanted to work on a garbage truck. The local union that represents them are Teamsters. The pay, to start in $18.50 an hour with health care after six months. The waiting list is two years. Americans will throw garbage in the 90 degree heat of summer and the freezing temperatures of wither for $45,000 a year.

However, if the pay were cut to $8.50 an hour with no benefits, which amounts to $17,000 a year, you now have a job Americans won't do.

Why does the free market only work for their side? Why can't it also work for our side?

[K8-EEE]

46. Exactly! "Jobs americans won't do" = "won't do for slave wages."

Which is what they want to pay so their CEO buddies can pocket the difference.

[Douglas Carpenter]

47. kick

[CoffeeCat]

49. McCain thinks lettuce pickers make > 100k a year?

Ok, this man is so out of touch with America. Does he rent out space
in Chimpy's bubble?

$50 an hour x 40 hours (52 weeks)= is $104,000 annually.

Man, McCain must think that bank tellers, mail carriers and dental hygienists are millionaires!

[brettdale]

52. $50 bucks an Hour to pick Lettuce!!!!!!

Heck, you got to be nuts to turn that down.

[Connonym]

53. The fine print

You'll have to live in the company barracks and pay $200 a night to sleep there. You must shop in the company store where a loaf of bread costs $100. The only diner in town, the company diner of course, will set you back $350 for a couple eggs and some bacon.

Time to re-read Grapes of Wrath

[alphafemale]

55. McCain probably thinks $50 an hour is chump change.

That's only $2k a week, after all.

[conspirator]

56. I would quit my software developer job. Picking up lettuce is much healthier

Fresh air. No stress.

[ForeignSpectator]

57. Yeah, I would stop my studies right now if these jobs were out there!

Fresh air, out in the open, you get a nice tan over the summer, get plenty of exercise and all that for $50 an hour!!

[Bette Noir]

81. Fresh air, no stress,

No shade, no breaks...

People die harvesting vegetables. It has become depressingly common, in the Central Valley in California-- every summer, people die.

Undocumented workers have jobs because fear of La Migra makes them easy to exploit. Enforce the labor codes across the board, without discriminating against immigrants, and the "advantage" immigrants have in getting jobs evaporates.

On the other hand, if we start paying $50/hour to pick lettuce, salad becomes something we'll only eat on birthdays.

[conspirator]

83. So you advocate low salaries to keep costs low as a good policy?

If lettuce became expensive, then the other non lettuce producing jobs would have to pay enough for people to afford lettuce, or give them enough free time to allow people to plant their own lettuce.

[ForeignSpectator]

86. Since we're talking about the "world according to McCombover", no one dies harvesting vegetables,

ever. And the 10-fold price increase of lettuce doesn't matter because we're talking 10-fold increase in salaries here... across the economy of course. According to McHouses.

[jeff30997]

58. K&R

[Douglas Carpenter]

59. one more kcik for the next shift

[JonLP24]

60. McCain is done

Surely the american people can see the difference in intelligence

[Naturyl]

61. Um... you remember someone named Bush, right?

I wouldn't put my eggs in that basket.

We will win, but probably not because the American people care about intelligence.

[JonLP24]

62. Yeah, you're right

I just think when I hear a gaffe like this there is no way they can be even considered but yeah this has never stopped Bush.

[Douglas Carpenter]

64. ANY MORE RECOMMENDS?? MAY I SUGGEST POSTING THIS INFO EVERYWHERE AND COPYING AND E-MAILING EVERYONE

NOW!!!!

This story REALLY, REALLY NEEDS TO GO VIRAL NOW@!!

This was at a 2006 AFL-CIO convention:

Here is the You-Tube Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpB9OoOU02M

Here is the link to MSNBC Article:

link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12155322 /

"McCain responded by saying immigrants were taking jobs nobody else wanted.

He offered anybody in the crowd $50 an hour to pick lettuce in Arizona.Shouts of protest rose from the crowd, with some accepting McCain's job offer."I'll take it!" one man shouted.

links: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12155322 /

you tube video - McCaint: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpB9OoOU02M



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link:

WHY MCCAIN'S GAFFES MATTER

http://roguecolumnist.typepad.com/rogue_columnist/2008/08/why-the-mccain.html

please note: I added the references below from the links embedded in the original article

WHY MCCAIN'S GAFFES MATTER

http://roguecolumnist.typepad.com/rogue_columnist/2008/08/why-the-mccain.html

President-elect McCain's inability to recall how many houses.(1) he owns fits into a larger and more troubling pattern. The problem is not just that he is an out-of-touch rich guy.

This is the candidate who repeatedly confused Shiite and Sunni (2)-- all the while trumpeting his expertise on the Middle East. At one point, his sock puppet Joe Lieberman had to whisper the facts in his ear.(3) He couldn't tell Sudan from Somalia.(4) He kept talking about a nation that hasn't existed for years.(5) Iraq and Pakistan share a border, the senator wrongly said, and the Sunni awakening happened 'after' the surge (6) (edited out by CBS (7)). He said he didn't know much about economics,(8) then denied saying such a thing. He spoke of a withdrawal timetable one day, then denied saying it later. He volunteered Cindy for a topless contest.(9) Then there was the stupendous dead space and mumbling when he was questioned about claiming Obama was playing the race card.(10) He claimed he walked through Baghdad without body armor or protection, etc., etc.(11) Most of this has been captured on tape.

What's going on? Neither obvious answer is comforting. He's either going senile as he nears 72, or he's lying and unprepared on critical issues without realizing how easily this can be caught in a YouTube era. (Whether the duhs and ignos -- those 'undecided voters' and angry Clintonites -- will care, is another, depressing matter). Either one of these answers should disqualify him for the White House, particularly because so many of his misstatements, confusions and subsequent lies come about issues where he claims superior experience and judgment.

But next consider all his flip flops, over torture, warrantless wiretapping, tax cuts, Social Security, abortion rights, engaging with Hamas, nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, offshore drilling, etc. Once the presumptive nominee, he said Social Security was "an absolute disgrace.'(12) His chief economic adviser and likely Treasury secretary called Americans a 'nation of whiners' and said the recession was in our heads.(13) This from a rich man who helped deregulate banking, profited from it, then profited again from the current deregulated banking crisis. Soon after McCain reversed course to support drilling, oil industry contributions poured in.(14)

The above is not a disjointed laundry list. When we combine it with McCain's obvious mental fatigue, the really disturbing picture comes clear.

1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/21/AR2008082103532.html?nav=hcmodule

2.http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Once_again_McCain_confuses_Sunnis_with_0408.html

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6GBdyws5YU

4. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/01/mccain-confuses-somalia-a_n_110152.html

5. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/14/mccain-references-non-exi_n_112650.html

6. http://gawker.com/5028170/how-bad-are-mccains-gaffes

7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDIAsS9VXiM

8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1X3efvVTLA

9. http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/08/mccain-voluntee.html

10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfkKk2C1W1c

11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpKGhut209o&NR=1

12. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/203377.php

13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NVjq2py7BA

14. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/26/AR2008072601891.html

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[Douglas Carpenter]

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[Douglas Carpenter]

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[Douglas Carpenter]

72. one more kick

[B Calm]

74. I would give up truck driving in a heartbeat!

[Zero Division]

75. The Obama campaign needs to use this extensively.

Hammer McCain with it, especially among the blue collar demographic. Mix it up with Obama's promise to lower taxes for lower income brackets.

[Hubert Flottz]

76. McCain and his new no bid contract czar Dick Cheney, will award

those jobs to Brown&Root and Blackwater after they steal the next election in November.

[DailyGrind51]

78. For HIM it would be a cut in pay!

[Buns_of_Fire]

79. Let's be fair now. Not EVERYONE rates a Sugar Mama like McPOW does!

It's bound to skew your thinking a bit, having access to all the beer you can drink. He must have something not discernable to the likes of someone like me, that's for sure.:shrug:

[carlyhippy]

80. 50.00 an hour? Hand me a bag and send me to the lettuce patch

Carly

[rox63]

82. I'd take $50/hr to pick lettuce

And I'm an out-of-shape middle-aged gal with a bad back.

[DeeDeeNY]

84. Comes to $400 each 8-hr day, or $2,000 each 5-day week.

McLame is so Out of Touch, it's pathetic. But shouldn't we cut him a little slack? After all, he was a POW, and that excuses everything.
:sarcasm:

[Phred42]

85. When your wife has $200+ million - $50/hr dosen't sound like much....I guess

Just another example of how dangerously OUT OF TOUCH Grampy actually is.

He doesn't have a clue that $100,0000 /yr ($50/hr) is damned good money to most of us.

[Lifetimedem]

88. I remember this

there should be an add positioning this with the quote from Graham that the recession is in our heads.. and him saying he is the biggest free trader in the race..

[ck4829]

90. Kick

[EndElectoral]

93. Air this unedited during Rethug convention!

[Douglas Carpenter]

94. I TOTALLY agree!!