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(Via msnbc.com.)

During a speech on human trafficking and human rights at Oakland University this morning McCain vowed to create an “Inter-Agency Task Force on Human Trafficking” that would be focused “exclusively on the prosecution of human traffickers and the rescue of their victims.”

“I will require the Task Force agencies to report directly to me on the status of the problem and the progress we are making to defeat this stain on the reputation and character of the United States,” McCain said, comparing the need to eliminate human trafficking to the abolition movement of the early 19th century.

Showing one way in which his campaign will be different from either of George Bush’s controlled runs for the White House, after his speech McCain took questions from the audience, several of which were fairly contentious. The topics ranged from his support for the war in Iraq to his failure to vote on a bill addressing equal pay for women, and his first question even came from a 14-year old girl wearing a shirt that read, “McCain doesn’t care about our future.”

In response to a question from a self-described Republican about the issue of his temper, McCain first joked, “How dare you ask that question? Get that microphone away from him.” But then he confessed to being angry about governmental failures.”

“I will confess to you my friend that I get angry,” McCain began. “I get angry when I saw a guy named Abramoff that ripped off Native Americans for millions and millions and millions of dollars and people ended up — including him — in federal prison. I get angry when I see $233 million of your tax dollars going to an island, to a bridge to an island with 50 people on it. And that’s your dollars.

“I get angry when I see corruption to the point where we have former members of Congress residing in federal prison, and you know something, the American people are angry too, and they’re not going to take it anymore, and that’s why they want change. And they’re mad, and they’ve lost their temper.”

The crowd quickly agreed, responding with cheers and applause as McCain challenged his questioner to “ask’em if they’re not mad.”