His salad days are over. He's tossed now. "$50-an-hour-to-pick-lettuce"

[norml]

Sen. John McCain threatened on 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.

snip

But he took more questions, including a pointed one on his immigration plan.

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.

McCain insisted none of them would do such menial labor for a complete season. "You can't do it, my friends."

Some in the crowd said they didn't appreciate McCain questioning their work ethic.

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http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=4729889&nav=HMO6HMaW


Gimme dat lettuce!



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McCain booed by labor activists on immigration, Iraq
KVOA.com, AZ - 1 hour ago
... 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. ...

'Questions, comments . . . insults?'
Tucson Citizen, AZ - 3 hours ago
... McCain finished his speech and asked whether anybody had "questions, comments or insults.". He offered anybody in the crowd $50 an hour to pick lettuce. ...

Union Leaders Boo McCain on Immigration
Frankfort Times, IN - 4 hours ago
... 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. ...

McCain's Straight-Talking Image Questioned
Town Hall, DC - 5 hours ago
... 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. ...

Union leaders heckle McCain
Gainesville Sun, FL - 6 hours ago
... 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. ...

McCain's straight-talking image questioned
Contra Costa Times, CA - 7 hours ago
... 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. ...

McCain's straight-talking image questioned
Sacramento Bee, USA - 8 hours ago
... 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. ...

Unionists jeer McCain on immigration, labor, Iraq
AZ Central.com, AZ - 8 hours ago
... 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. ...

McCain's Straight-Talking Image Questioned
phillyBurbs.com, PA - 8 hours ago
... 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. ...

McCain's Straight-Talking Image Questioned
CBS News - 8 hours ago
... 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. ...

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[NanceGreggs]

1. I wish McCain would take $50 an hour to shut up. n/t

[Caoimhe]

2. Hell, I'd clean toilets for $50 an hour

how out of touch is Mr. McCain? My God!

[eleny]

3. He's digging himself a hole

And when he's finished digging, it'll be too deep to climb out of.

[leftstreet]

6. Practicing for his new career

[norml]

11. It'll take more than a sneeze guard to shield him...

from having offered "$50 an hour to pick lettuce".

[MrModerate]

4. I've always maintained that McCain would . . .

Self-destruct on the campaign trail. I saw all sorts of signs of incipient autoimmolation the last time he ran around the block.

I still think I'm right.

[opihimoimoi]

30. Yup, he even got his math all fk'd up..he was supposed to say:::

$50.00 per DAY...Not Hour....Bwahahahaha...big diff.....

[kenny blankenship]

5. I guess he tossed his own salad on that one!

Never ask a question of a crowd when you don't know what their answer will be.

[liberal N proud]

7. That neo-con line pisses me off - "work that no one else will do"

BULL SHIT.
My father worked 30 years in a Meat Packing plant, he made damn good money until Reagan began busting the unions.
The plant he work closed in 1980, laying off 600 people making $50K - $60K a year. That was good money in 1980.
The plant re-opened on year later, non-union labor. Wages went from $12/hr + to $5.00/hr.
They didn't even offer work to those who once worked there, the entire work force was brought in from Mexico. Not one legal among them.
I know for a fact that thousands of people would have applied for those jobs:
    1. If they had been offered.
    2. If the wages would have been a living wage.


This is all about the corporations not wanting to pay living wages.

[Virginia Dare]

17. You're absolutely correct, and a question...

What was the attitude towards the union after this happened? I had a relative that went through a very similar experience at a meatpacking plant, and to this day he hates all unions, blames THEM for losing his job.


:wtf:

[liberal N proud]

20. No problem with the union, the people at that facility all knew what

was going on.

[formerrepuke]

8. Let's see... $50 an hour to work outdoors.. clean air, nobody busting

my b*lls about deadlines, no more phones, no more staring at a computer screen for hours. Lettuce fields, here I come.

[Dulcinea]

15. Where do I sign up?

Picking lettuce for $50/hour? I'm in!

[Jane Austin]

9. Let's all send this to Jon Stewart.

He's still tryin to have a crush on McCain. (See last night's show on it's rerun at 5 or 6 pm, depending on your time zone.)

[NorCalDem]

10. I would go out into the fields RIGHT NOW

for $50 an hour. McCain has obviously lost it if he thinks Americans won't work for "those jobs" for "those wages." He's right, I won't pick lettuce for $2.50 an hour, because it's not a livable wage! It's not that I can't do the work!

[mzmolly]

12. His lettuce moment - is going to wilt his campaign.

;)

[norml]

13. Oh, good one! Hail Caesar!

I like it! :)

[mzmolly]

14. Hey norml!

:hi:

cute ;)

[Blaze Diem]

16. Immigrant field workers to McCain.."We'll do it for $40.00 hr.

HAAAAA
Immigrants will unionize and demand their $40.00 hr.

McCain is screwed!

[rucky]

32. I'll cross the border and sneak back in for those wages! n/t

[gratuitous]

18. And be mindful of McCain's subtext

You American workers are lazy and don't work very hard.

Well Mr. McCain, that may be true where you live nowadays, but I know a lot of people bustin' their ass at two and even three jobs, and they'd be thrilled to make about 8½ times what they make now. They might even have a chance to sit down with their kids in the evening and talk about how their day went for $50 an hour.

Elitist, imperialist pig.

[Zynx]

19. I'd shovel shit for $50 an hour.

[enfield collector]

21. me too, and I'd enjoy it for that kind of money.

[VaYallaDawg]

22. Wonder how much he's paying Jerry Falwell per hour

to stand by silently on his pres. hopes??

[More Than A Feeling]

23. What's that sound?

Oh, right, it's John McCain's poll numbers crashing to the ground.

[mdmc]

24. I would pick lettuce for 50.oo per hour

I would do it for a liveable wage...

[maxsolomon]

25. did he really mean 50 DOLLARS an HOUR?

or 50 CENTS an hour? or 50 dollars a DAY?

either of those suck, but 50 dollars an hour is $104,000/year.

i think i'd pick lettuce for that.

sounds like johnny got flustered & used hour when he meant day.

[senseandsensibility]

26. He's not working class or middle class

He doesn't think that's a lot of money. He doesn't have any idea how much money real people make.

[guinivere]

27. Where can I get a map to the lettuce farms? nt

[bobbieinok]

28. in 60s RW said Mexicans were short, thus close to the ground, so they

could bend over very easily......Americans were too tall to bend easily in the farm fields (IMO, there was also a subtext that Americans are proud and do not bend).......oh for the days of Cesar Chavez

[opihimoimoi]

29. McCain has no credibility and respect these days...his brain is GONE

[LittleClarkie]

31. Indeed I have no idea why he's cuddling up to Mr. 33 percent approval

He's the Hillary of the Right. No matter what he does, certain folks are still going to hate him. My Conservative friends still think he's terrible.

[NMMNG]

33. Sign me up

:bounce: