McCain Honored for Immigration Reform and Peace Efforts

<p>Irish America Magazine is honoring the &quot;<a title="Top 100" target="_blank" href="http://www.irishabroad.com/news/irish-voice/entertainment/Articles/Top-100-Irish-Americans150308.aspx" id="eouu">Top 100</a>&quot; Irish-Americans, including Barack Obama, Hillary and Bill Clinton, and John McCain. <br /><br />

McCain gets props for his work on behalf of immigration reform and the Irish peace process. It’s odd to think of &quot;Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran&quot; McCain receiving an award for his part in a peace process, given his predilection for peace through war. This is a guy who’s OK with a U.S. military presence in Iraq longer than a geophysical era.&nbsp; Then again, Henry &quot;Dr. Strangelove&quot; Kissinger got the 1973 <a title="Nobel Peace Prize" target="_blank" href="http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/1973a.html" id="x8q4">Nobel Peace Prize</a> after incinerating Vietnam and Cambodia. <br /><br />

But McCain did in fact promote immigration reform and is still urging his fellow Republicans to take a reality-based approach to resolving the issue of illegal immigrants already in the country.&nbsp; The Irish-Americans doing the honors, with roots in a nation of emigrants if there ever was one until recently, when it started importing immigrants, are right to recognize McCain on that score. <br /><br />

I’d like to be there to see the reaction of the Republicans in the crowd.&nbsp; McCain awarded for peace and immigration reform?&nbsp; Johnnie, we hardly knew ye.</p>