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La Raza To The Bottom
IBD Editorials ^ | July 15, 2008

Posted on 07/15/2008 7:50:17 PM PDT by Kaslin

Politics: Barack Obama tells "The Race" that U.S. law enforcement officers are terrorists and that communities that enforce immigration laws are vigilantes. But then, that's exactly what La Raza believes.


Obama, the "post-racial" candidate, pandered Sunday to a group of Hispanic activists that calls itself "The Race." The only thing that was missing at the convention of the National Council of La Raza was his wearing a Mexican flag lapel pin.

In Orwellian fashion, defenders of "La Raza" deny that it means "the race." San Francisco Chronicle writer Carla Marinucci says of Obama's appearance before the group's national convention in San Diego that Obama "embraced the ideas reflected in the organization's name, La Raza, loosely translated as 'the people.' "

A very loose translation it is. Why not use "la comunidad" or "la gente" when speaking about the Latino people and community? Because La Raza wants to be called La Raza, and they known exactly what it means to them.

La Raza has ties it refuses to condemn with the likes of MECHa, a group that has spent the last three decades indoctrinating Latino students on American campuses, claiming the states of California, Arizona, Mexico, Texas and southern Colorado were stolen and should be returned to their rightful owners, the people of Mexico.

MECHa's slogan is derived from the rhetoric of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro: "Through the race, everything, outside the race, nothing." Obama hopes the road to the White House leads through La Raza.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; aliens; hispanicvote; laraza; obama

1 posted on 07/15/2008 7:50:17 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

identity politics originating with fidel castro.


2 posted on 07/15/2008 7:52:21 PM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: Kaslin
Thanks to our open border traitors, there won't be 50 United States in 25 years.


3 posted on 07/15/2008 7:54:56 PM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: Kaslin

Oh, this is freekin great.


4 posted on 07/15/2008 7:56:03 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (RIP Tony Snow, superb human being and FRiend, SNOWflakes will always love you.)
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To: Kaslin
La Raza equals a Spanish surname KKK.
5 posted on 07/15/2008 7:57:05 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto!)
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To: Kaslin
El Robusto McCain also addressed La Raza.

I think it was the next day, or maybe the previous day.

Whenever it was, I am grossly offended by the notion, much less the fact, that either Presidential candidate would even acknowledge these radical, separatist potential terrorists.

6 posted on 07/15/2008 7:57:36 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: Pelham; upsdriver; Tennessee Nana
A Terry Anderson-related ping:

No mention of McAmnesty's hispandering before "The Race," but they sure did cite Jamiel Shaw and the 18th Streeters.
7 posted on 07/15/2008 7:58:25 PM PDT by Das Outsider
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To: Kaslin
hateful rhetoric filling our airwaves

Well, if they can deny La Raza means The Race, we can easily deny that the hateful rhetoric is not hateful. Problem solved.

8 posted on 07/15/2008 8:01:37 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: elkfersupper
El Robusto McCain also addressed La Raza.

He was the first of the two presidential candidates scheduled to appear; Obama was a latecomer to the Aztlán Hat Dance en San Diego.
9 posted on 07/15/2008 8:02:58 PM PDT by Das Outsider
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To: Das Outsider

Well, we know what Terry will talk abpout...

I wonder if there was any video...


10 posted on 07/15/2008 8:06:16 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Travis McGee
Thanks to our open border traitors, there won't be 50 United States in 25 years.

Our open borders traitors do not acknowledge popular political distinctions such as 'Republican' and 'Democrat.' The hard truth is that this is a full-scale invasion: one encouraged and potentially facilitated by the likes of McCain and Obama.

Some may cry "Hyperbole!" if even in Spanglish.
11 posted on 07/15/2008 8:08:15 PM PDT by Das Outsider
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To: Kaslin

La Raza is the KKK of Mexico, when will we outlaw it here


12 posted on 07/15/2008 8:08:33 PM PDT by edcoil
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To: Tennessee Nana
Well, we know what Terry will talk abpout... I wonder if there was any video...

Terry laid it out on last Sunday's program, but I expect the long-awaited, bipartisan, open borders equivalent to Woodstock to make for a great show this coming Sunday.
13 posted on 07/15/2008 8:11:24 PM PDT by Das Outsider
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To: Kaslin; All
For those who missed it...

Obama's 'civilian national security force'
14 posted on 07/15/2008 8:11:35 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Kaslin
I agree 100%. The problem is that Juan McCain spoke there too! In 1919, the former liberal Republican President, and founder the Progressive Party, Theodore Roosevelt said
"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
Letter to the American Defense Society on January 3, 1919
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/troosevelt.asp

Thus I am going to say something that in other contexts might sound like blaspheme; "John McCain please emulate TR!"
15 posted on 07/15/2008 8:16:56 PM PDT by rmlew (Liberalism is like AIDS; it destroys the natural defenses of a nation or civilization.)
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To: Travis McGee
Thanks to our open border traitors, there won't be 50 United States in 25 years.

Correction: 57 States. (The Organization of Islamic States has 57 Member States. That's what confused Sen. Barack Hussein Obama II. He is never sure if he is speaking to the USofA or the OIS. They're both so much alike in his mind.)
16 posted on 07/15/2008 8:26:01 PM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (http://auntiecoosa.blogspot.com -- read, learn, blog, or get out of my way.)
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To: HighlyOpinionated

Freudian slip?

What did he do on his Pakistan sojourn in the 1980s?


17 posted on 07/15/2008 8:28:53 PM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: Kaslin
Barack Obama tells "The Race" that U.S. law enforcement officers are terrorists and that communities that enforce immigration laws are vigilantes.

If this is on taped video, it could destroy his candidacy. Let's get it on the air.
18 posted on 07/15/2008 8:34:21 PM PDT by no dems (99% of the Politicians give all the others a bad name.)
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To: All

La Raza may be bad but McCain went there to get their votes - votes at any cost.


19 posted on 07/15/2008 8:56:14 PM PDT by Marcella (Will work in my rose garden (with wine) and not listen to McCain.)
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To: no dems

Exactly.

I’d like to see that for myself.


20 posted on 07/15/2008 9:03:43 PM PDT by Air Force Brat
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To: elkfersupper

I second that.


21 posted on 07/15/2008 10:34:20 PM PDT by Pelham (Press 1 for English)
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To: All

Jebus, people! Why all the McCain bashing? I know he’s sorry when it come to illegals, but has he said or done anything THIS bad???

Obama’s earlier speech to La Raza:

Obama said the recent Senate immigration debate “was both ugly and racist in a way we haven’t see since the struggle for civil rights.”

Obama told La Raza that the mass protests lately for immigration rights of Mexicans is equal in greatness to the civil rights protest of the past!

“I walked the walk. I talked the talk. I marched with you for “civil rights” of “immigrants”. (!!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEITOQfKVmo

Omama supports La Raza’s, the “DREAM Act,” which would mandate states to offer in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens — thus providing them with benefits not available to U.S. citizens from other states. He tried to get Swartzenagger to support it!

Obama SHAMELESSLY pimps illegal aliens. Absolutely shameful- considering the additional violent crime, third word diseases they bring into this country and the billions of dollars it cost us to take care of them.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070723/NATION/107230063/1001

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1870205/posts

http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/201957.html

“I will stand with the Muslims and protect them..” Obama. Barack Obama
http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm

Get the facts on the life and career of Barack Obama
that the media covers up:
http://www.theobamafile.com/

CHECK THIS OUT, PEOPLE:
http://immigrationcounters.com/

http://www.texasborderregulators.org/


22 posted on 07/15/2008 10:50:00 PM PDT by patriot08
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To: patriot08

I was invited to see Los Lobos and Los Lonely Boys here
in Seattle (Redmond actually) and wonder if they are in
the tank for him. I like their stuff but refuse to attend
musical political rallies for the empty suit chameleon.


23 posted on 07/15/2008 11:01:08 PM PDT by rahbert
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To: rahbert

I can’t bear to hear anyone speaking for him. I can’t bear to hear him speak. I change the channel.


24 posted on 07/15/2008 11:08:59 PM PDT by patriot08
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To: elkfersupper
Folks, START CONTRIBUTING ONLINE TO ALTERNATIVE PARTY CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE (S) FOR PRESIDENT.

We have to ramp this up for November as a big backlash to the GOP and the Democrat Socialist and say NO!! NO MORE.

They will listen when the polls start to show the American people waking up and moving in our direction, where they are already politically on this issue, and not with Osama or Scarface.

25 posted on 07/16/2008 2:42:57 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Accepting the REALITY & trying to reverse America's slow global economic decline, is true patriotism)
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To: rmlew
You just have to bring JohnMcCain up, even though he is not mentioned in the editorial because of your hatred of him
26 posted on 07/16/2008 4:53:50 AM PDT by Kaslin (Vote Democrat if you like high gas prices at the pump)
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To: Tennessee Nana

bttt


27 posted on 07/16/2008 4:54:50 AM PDT by Guenevere (America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

It’s simple. If you’re not going to vote for McCain or Obama (why anyone would want to vote for that idiot is beyond me), then find a third party candidate and vote. Don’t sit on your butt and wait use that to “punish” McCain for not being the candidate you want. You have a vote. Use it.


28 posted on 07/16/2008 5:24:22 AM PDT by spacewarp (Gun control is a tight cluster grouping in the chest and one in the forehead.)
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To: patriot08

“Jebus, people! Why all the McCain bashing? I know he’s sorry when it come to illegals, but has he said or done anything THIS bad???”

YES. Frankly, it is expected of a Dimocrat. McCain, on the other hand, traitorously cross the isle to join forces with the likes of TED KENNEDY and the Dimocrat party in order to introduce legislation that would destroy our sovereignty and security and risk our losing the war on terror in our own backyards. Unforgivable.


29 posted on 07/16/2008 6:02:58 AM PDT by Kimberly GG (Don't blame me.....I support DUNCAN HUNTER.)
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To: Kaslin

McCain deserves no free pass.


30 posted on 07/16/2008 6:04:29 AM PDT by Kimberly GG (Don't blame me.....I support DUNCAN HUNTER.)
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To: spacewarp

is there an echo in here? ;-)


31 posted on 07/16/2008 8:16:59 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Accepting the REALITY & trying to reverse America's slow global economic decline, is true patriotism)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Just backing you up.

Paul


32 posted on 07/16/2008 8:50:07 AM PDT by spacewarp (Gun control is a tight cluster grouping in the chest and one in the forehead.)
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To: Kaslin
Hate is a strong word. Try this. I strongly dislike a candidate who ran to the left of George Bush in 2000, who carries on most of Bush's bad policies and adds more liberals ones, who stymied conservative agenda in Congress, and who lied his way to the nomination with the complicity of the media.

If we had a patriot running (and Vietnam Service does not ensure love of patria/homeland, ask John Kerry), one who gives a damn about our survival our culture and history, we could take advantage of the unassimilated foreigner/red diaper baby running for president as a Democrat. Instead, we are stuck with Juan Hernandez toady.

33 posted on 07/16/2008 3:09:36 PM PDT by rmlew (Liberalism is like AIDS; it destroys the natural defenses of a nation or civilization.)
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