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WARREN -- Sen. John McCain kicked off a four-day swing across Michigan Saturday morning telling several hundred people here that the state's slumping economy can be righted.
"We can restore Detroit's supremacy in the automotive world," McCain said at the Andiamo Celebrity Showroom. "I'm optimistic."
The Arizona senator, touring Michigan aboard his Straight Talk Express motor home, said the auto industry needs help, which he'd do as president by cutting taxes, providing research and development incentives and offering displaced workers job retraining at the nation's community colleges.
While auto manufacturing job losses in Michigan likely won't be replaced, "We are going to create new jobs here," he said. "Detroit and Michigan once saved the world in World War II and they can do it again."
McCain also vowed that he would be a president who would be strong on national defense and "on my watch we will never surrender (to al-Qaeda) and they will."I will do everything in my power to defeat this enemy," said McClain who was hoping to win Michigan's Republican presidential primary on Tuesday just as he did in 2000.
He said he is troubled that Osama Bin Laden is still using cyberspace to recruit terrorists.
"If I have to follow him to the gates of hell I will get him," McCain said.
Jill Deladurantaye, a 32-year-old Macomb Township mother of four, attended the town hall meeting with her 1-month-old son Jack.
"John McCain is very honest and even
if his positions are not popular, he keeps them," she said. "And he is the
strongest of the candidates on national security."
Maurice Bissonnette, a 55-year-old computer engineer at EDS brought his 12-year-old daughter Anna to her first political rally.
"I supported McCain in 2000 and even contributed to his race but he pulled out the next day," says the Warren man. "He has a lot of integrity. You have to admire the guy for not being one of those who flops on issues."
Dan Coakley, a retired Chrysler engineer and Army veteran whose son is serving his third tour in Iraq, told McCain that the U.S. has to be more aggressive when its military warships are harassed in the waters near Iraq as they were this week.
"They were within 200 yards of our ships and if you are that close you are going down. You are going to meet those vestal virgins," said the Shelby Township man who said he will vote for McCain or former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
"I take your point," said McCain, a former naval aviator who was held as prisoner of war for more than five years during the Vietnam War. McCain also told the crowd he would be tough on trade policy with China and that he would secure American borders against illegal aliens.
"I will, as president of the United
States, secure these borders and stop the flow of illegals into this
country."
McCain was also scheduled to speak Saturday in Livonia and Clawson and planned stops Sunday in Howell, East Lansing, Jackson and Battle Creek.
McCain Campaigns On Promise Of Strong National Defense
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