Puerto Rico Senator: Obama is the whitest and most elitist President ever

NotiUno Radio ^ | 8/01/2013

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SAN JUAN - Past Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Senate President and current Senator-at-large Thomas Rivera Schatz asserted today on the talk-radio program "En Caliente con la Jovet" (680 AM Radio) that President Obama is the "whitest" U.S. President and along with Congressional Democrats, the most elitist politicians in U.S. history for calling for amnesty and a path to citizenship for illegal aliens, while maintaining four million current U.S. Citizens in a second-class citizenship status.

Residents of the U.S. Territory of Puerto Rico are considered natural born citizens, but are not allowed to participate in Presidential elections nor are they afforded representation in Congress other than a non-voting Resident Commissioner. They remain under the sovereignty of Congress under the territorial clause of the U.S. Constitution.

In a November 2012 plebiscite, a majority of voters rejected the current political status and for the first time voted for admission to the Union as the 51st state. Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi has filed an Admission bill in Congress. Pro-statehood advocates in Puerto Rico are charging that pro-Status-Quo forces and their Democrat allies in Congress, led by so-called "latino" Congressmen from Chicago and New York, are torpedoing the will of the Puerto Rican people by obstructing the Puerto Rico admission project.

The White House is behind these obstruction efforts, which represents a double standard toward "latinos", according to Senator Rivera-Schatz. "How can the President ask us to be sensible and open to citizenship for millions of Mexicans and others who have broken our immigration laws, while at the same time maintaining millions of Puerto Ricans - all current natural born citizens - in nothing short of a political apartheid status?", he asked. "This is an act of willful hypocrisy on the part of the White House and Congressional Democrats who have historically opposed Puerto Rican Statehood", he added.

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Senator Thomas Rivera-Schats is highly favored on the island to run for Governor of Puerto Rico as a Republican on the pro-stathood party's ticket on 2016.

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Puerto Rico Ping! Please Freepmail me if you want on or off the list.

[Sooth2222]

"Residents of insular areas do not pay U.S. federal income taxes "

Why would they want to become a state?

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RE :”SAN JUAN - Past Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Senate President and current Senator-at-large Thomas Rivera Schatz asserted today on the talk-radio program “En Caliente con la Jovet” (680 AM Radio) that President Obama is the “whitest” U.S. President and along with Congressional Democrats, the most elitist politicians in U.S. history for calling for amnesty and a path to citizenship for illegal aliens, while maintaining four million current U.S. Citizens in a second-class citizenship status.
Residents of the U.S. Territory of Puerto Rico are considered natural born citizens, but are not allowed to participate in Presidential elections nor are they afforded representation in Congress other than a non-voting Resident Commissioner. They remain under the sovereignty of Congress under the territorial clause of the U.S. Constitution. “

Pretty entertaining however they can and do move to states and vote. And they vote Dem naturally.

[SMARTY]

I guess he told THEM!!

[edcoil]

Sorry but PR has voted NOT to vote themselves.

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“In a November 2012 plebiscite, a majority of voters rejected the current political status and for the first time voted for admission to the Union as the 51st state”.

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So ‘white’ equals “elitist?” I’ll pass on reading the article, thanks.

[JRios1968]

Pretty entertaining however they can and do move to states and vote. And they vote Dem naturally.

You and I haven't met yet...the next time I vote for a DemoRAT will be my first.

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He was being sarcastic. He was pointing out the irony of Obama and the Democrats always accusing “whites” to be elitists, when it is them who are the biggest elitists. So he says that means that according to Obama himself, he most be white.

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RE :”You and I haven't met yet...the next time I vote for a DemoRAT will be my first. “

I am sure there are one or two black freepers who voted against Obama both times but its not a representative sample.

[JRios1968]

I am sure there are one or two black freepers who voted against Obama both times but its not a representative sample.

True, but let's not do an absolute generalization. There's quite a few Puerto Ricans on FR.

[Tennessee Nana]

Any one of these NBC Puerto Ricans can be POTUS...

Unlike the guy in the White House and his illegal aliens and their anchor babies...

[cricket]

Ironic for sure. A bitter truth - albeit a ‘white’ that speaks to their vision of ‘white’- that escapes the most racist of Blacks and Lefties et al.(Obama would gladly wipe his shoes on them. We know they get his ‘soles’ in their face; when meeting with Obama in the Oval Office.)

Bottom line; there is NOTHING about Obama; that rings ‘true’ to form. He is absolutely; as inauthentic a human being; as a one can ever be.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We visited PR for a week over Christmas last year.
Had a good time at Hatillo.

[livius]

Not all people from PR vote Dem, and in fact even locally they have had good Republican candidates and local elected officials. More so than most US cities or even some of our states!

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There's quite a few Puerto Ricans on FR.

Raises his hand: "Here I am!".

But...

I must say that, after seeing a few of the responses in this discussion, and in others before, that, there are quite a lot of FReepers who have an antiquated stereotype about Puerto Ricans. I was born in P.R., and I'm proud to be one, but, I'm most proud to be an American.

[bmwcyle]

As a White man, I am offended.

[Political Junkie Too]

What do you expect from an island of White Hispanics?

We already know where Obama and Holder stand regarding them.

-PJ

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Ha, ha!