Producer: Foxhole Productions
Running Time: 01:00
Debut Date: 07/11/2008
Ad Buy: Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico
Cost: not available
Summary: The ad shows McCain's comments from a 2007 debate where he praises Hispanics for serving in the U.S. military as a means to achieve citizenship.
Script of "God's Children" (TV)
JOHN MCCAIN (v/o): My friends, I want you the next time you're down in Washington, D.C., to go to the Vietnam War memorial and look at the names engraved in black granite.
(Text on screen: John McCain, New Hampshire Republican Primary Debate, 6/5/07)
You'll find a whole lot of Hispanic names.
When you go to Iraq or Afghanistan today, you're going to see a whole lot of people who are of Hispanic background. You're even going to meet some of the few thousand that are still green-card holders who are not even citizens of this country, who love this country so much that they're willing to risk their lives in its service…
(Screen goes to debate)
JOHN MCCAIN: …in order to accelerate their path to citizenship and enjoy the bountiful, blessed nation.
So let's, from time to time, remember that these are God's children. They must come into our country legally, but they have enriched our culture and our nation as every generation of immigrants before them.
Thank you.
(Applause)
(Text on screen: www.JohnMcCain.com; Paid for by John McCain 2008)
JOHN MCCAIN (v/o): I'm John McCain, and I approve this message.
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