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By Joan Vennochi | Thursday, June 21, 2007 | The Boston Globe

“…IMAGINE WAVING a sign that says “McCain — traitor” in the face of a former Navy combat pilot who spent five years as a prisoner of war after his plane was shot down in Vietnam.

Protesters did that recently to Senator John McCain as the Arizona Republican walked into a New York fund-raiser. It’s the price he pays for supporting controversial immigration legislation that proposes a path to citizenship for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants.

Those placards are bad news for McCain’s presidential bid. But they are also emblematic of the poisonous immigration debate and the degraded state of American politics.”…BS

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