Whether McCain was meaning to agree with everything that O’Reilly was touting I guess we will never know. But we can say with certainty that McCain never challenged any of O’Reilly’s outrageous comments!

This will probably come to nothing because the Dems don’t have talk radio or a “news” organization, like Fox “Noise,” to blow it out of proportion. But if it does get blown out of proportion, McCain will be getting what he deserves. I remember McCain himself taking political advantage of John Kerry’s boched joke. Sad.

That question is a strawman and has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

I don’t necessarily agree that there should be any more limits on legal immigration, either (there are already limits set in place and this would theoretically raise those). That too is a strawman. The proposed bill would give preferential treatment to immigrants that can show they have an education and/or are skilled in a trade (this is based on the “point system”).

American jobs aren’t being lost to illegal immigrants. They’re being lost to cheap overseas labor. Keeping in mind that I’m from Ohio, consider this: Between October 2006 and March 2007 11,800 manufacturing jobs were lost to overseas production [source]. Between 1995 and 2000 those numbers were 207,600 manufacturing jobs. Ford has just announced the closing of it’s Cleveland plant and Hoover may be leaving North Canton. All of these jobs are either being shipped to China (where the average worker makes between 25¢ and 40¢ an hour) or to Mexico [source PDF].

I haven’t even touched on the IT industry. When was the last time you called tech support and spoke to an American?

Staying on topic, I’d say our quality of life (job loss) is more threatened by 1) NAFTA and 2) Americans who want cheaper goods and services than by the “complexion of America” changing.

“To me, this more than the other quote smacks of a typical racist fear tactic- that [fill in brown race] will destroy America by making it brown.”

Here’s my very honest question (take this as a self-funded white male college student looking at my ‘financial aid’ options): If our racial complexion changes enough will I _ever_ qualify for affirmative action benefits? You may consider that a racially motivated question, but try for a second to instead see it as one of basic fairness.

As for immigration? There should be limits on it. I don’t know what they are, but I do know that the moment the average American’s quality of life goes down due to businesses having easy access to unskilled immigrant workers we’ve crossed the line.

However, something I think you and the Democratic Party blog missed was this exchange at 1:36:

O’Reilly: “…this will sink the Republican Party, I believe, – we’d have a one party system – and change, pardon the pun, the whole complexion of America. Am I wrong?”

McCain: “No. You’re right.”

To me, this more than the other quote smacks of a typical racist fear tactic- that [fill in brown race] will destroy America by making it brown.

Link later changed it noting “(Modified for clarity)” Yeah, right.

However, McCain can, and should, be faulted and held responsible for not objecting to O’Reilly’s racist reasoning for capping immigration. There may be good reasons for placing an upper limit on immigration, but a supposed threat to white Christian males is not one of them.