Posted on 11/30/2008 1:36:11 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Well if the guy was gonna run as ‘The Hispanic’ he had to look the part. As sad as it is, that’s is probably exactly why he did grow the thing.
They shouldn’t have voted for him
In Panama when we speak English, Panamanians are Latins.
When we speak Spanish, Panamanians are Latinos.
What a bunch of PC crap.
Panamanians don’t give a dang and would probably laugh themselves sick if they realized this stupidity.
”How about Gen Jones, former Marine Corps Commandant, as Obama’s pick for National Security Advisor? Not exactly peace, love, and rainbows there.”
Sounds like Mr. Hope and Change has met the cold cruel dangerous reality of the world. In their little meeting, President Bush must have scared this guy right out of his empty suit!
Hispanics have been the number one minority for a few years. They have eclipsed blacks in all respects with their industriousness and more solid families. Hispanics do bust their butts in construction, hotels, restaurants and agriculture...unlike blacks
Obama comes along and boosts Blacks back into the number one spot. Now Hispanics have to wait a few years for illegal immigration and high birthrates put them back as #1 minority
Clinton's cabinet was always 100% lawyers except for sometimes the Defense Secretary. Clinton also hired mutants like Janet Reno and Donna Shalala.
0 will hire more normal looking people
Dubya should have given this concept a try...
Now it only remains for Obama to offend the professional poverty pimps of the NAALCP...
Too bad, amigos. You will obey Hussein, get it?
The famous Hispanics in the Clinton administration were illegals who worked in the homes of some of his nominees.
This is so funny! I’m still LMAO at the Gates selection.
Ummm... after reading this I am not so sure the joke isn’t on us!
Barack Obama...
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
Interview with the editors of the Army Times July 13: “I do think that Secretary Gates has brought a level of realism and professionalism and planning to the job that is worthy of praise. I think that the Pentagon is operating more effectively. I think he has improved greatly the relationships with the Joint Chiefs and the military generally.”
But what does Gates have to do with the concept behind the “civilian national security force”?
Gates invented the idea.
Last fall Gates began giving a series of speeches about the need to create a more modern State Department and a “civilian national security force” that could “deploy teams that combine agricultural specialists and engineers and linguists and cultural specialists who are prepared to go into some of the most dangerous areas alongside the military.”
Gates’ idea was big – seemingly as big as Obama’s $439 billion vision: “If we’ve got a State Department or personnel that have been trained just to be behind walls, and they have not been equipped to get out there alongside our military and engage, then we don’t have the kind of national security apparatus that is needed. That has to be planned for; it has to be paid for. Those personnel have to be trained. And they all have to be integrated.”
Problems in the presumed alliance:
“Such talk portends problems for the Democratic Party, where Hispanics and African-Americans are two crucial constituencies. Courting the growing Hispanic vote, virtually all the top Democratic leaders in Washington support liberal immigration policies, including some form of amnesty. So far, the party has been able to embrace amnesty without threatening its traditional lock on black votes. Republicans are missing an opportunity, thinks Vanderbilt’s Swain. “Some Republicans have positions on immigration that would resonate in the black community, but only a few have tried to take advantage of black anger on immigration,” she says.”
http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_1_blacks_and_immigration.html
“Ummm... after reading this I am not so sure the joke isn’t on us!”
Ummm...perhaps I need to explain the humor to you, because obviously you didn’t see it. The humor is that Mr. Obama has retained someone selected by President Bush after he campaigned for “Hope and Change” to the “failed Bush policies”. If you have hesitancies about General Gates for the reasons you give, then that is your prerogative and quite a different subject.
It’s amazing how President Bush placed both blacks and hispanics in key positions and nary a word of praise for the man.
When are these people going to realize that the democratic party only wants them during election time for thier votes.
I have to admit that I am pleased that the hispanics are unhappy about this. Wake up!!
Now be good children and disappear until we need you in the next election.
Italian ancestry.
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