The President said that again in his press conference today. Twice.
He also reused his line about "family values not stopping at the Rio Grande".
He's certainly got a one track mind about this topic.
I just caught the tail end of that press conference. Who was the reporter that asked him about illegal immigration. The President does seem a little more alert about the issue. We need to hammer these press people to ask him, "What are the jobs Americans will not do?"
In other words Bush has no intention of ever controlling the borders no matter how much pressure from the American people is put on him.
What a dangerous piece of inanity! No, family values do not stop at the Rio Grande, nor at the Pacific or Atlantic. Is the President denying the very concept of the Nation? That his duty is to his own people, to our families, not the families of the rest of humanity?!!
I am sorry if I offend some fellow Conservatives, who have embraced the Bush Administration as one of ours. I do not believe that a rational assessment supports that embrasure or the conclusions that go into it. The evidence becomes daily more compelling that we are in a Clinton/Bush era, where the ideal is seen as membership in an undifferentiated humanity; not the ideal of your or I, or our rooted neighbors; but the ideal of those who have come for a moment in time--a 16 year moment in time--to control the Federal Government of the United States.
May God forgive us, if we fail to reverse this sickening trend! We will not deserve such forgiveness. To better address the whole question of Immigration, see Immigration & The American Future.
William Flax
You're kidding me. He's actually repeating these inane lines?
What are Rove and Co. thinking?
No he's right about "family values not stopping at the Rio Grande."
The only thing is, it's not the Gambino family any more, it's the Rodriguez family now, and every one of them is a criminal.
Bush can insult Americans --- say they're too lazy to work hard or too arrogant for some jobs --- yet he doesn't blink when it comes to sending Americans to die in Iraq --- something the Mexican army isn't about to do.