Ireland & the US Presidential Campaign Trail Abdon M Pallasch reports from the road New Y
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"When you sit down tonight, Gov. Romney, will you do me a favor, please remember that they are human."
Romney brought out his stock line: "I love legal immigration, but I want to end illegal immigration. . . . We simply cannot take all the people in the world who want to come to America."
Jan. 6: NASHUA, New Hampshire
Talking up her foreign policy experience, Senator Hillary Clinton said:
"I went [to Northern Ireland] more than my husband did. I was working to help change the atmosphere among people because leaders alone rarely make peace. They have to bring people along who believe peace is in their
interests. I remember a meeting that I pulled together in Belfast, in the town hall there,
bringing together for the first time Catholics and Protestants."
Clinton has used variations of that argument as she campaigns around the country, noting she made six trips to Northern Ireland while her husband made four.
A Boston Globe reporter challenged Clinton on whether she really did bring together people from opposing sides of the conflict in Northern Ireland or if she was giving speeches there. The Washington Post gave Clinton a "Pinocchio" for "exaggeration." But prominent Northern Ireland activists rose to Clinton's defense, saying she did play an active role in her own right.
John McCain is on stage wearing a forest green sweater vest - Michigan State colors, not nearby University of Michigan colors.
"I just want to say my sweater has nothing to do with any allegiance to any particular school or university. It's because I'm Scotch and Irish and Cindy is pure Irish and we have these superstitions."
Perhaps sensing the drubbing he was to take from Romney in the Michigan Republican primary election that day, McCain did not even stay in Michigan to watch the returns. He flew from Ypsilanti to South Carolina where he watched the Michigan returns at the Hibernian Society in South Carolina.
