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Hillary Clinton Panders to Latino 'Advocacy' Group La Raza - (La Raza is violently anti-American!)
NEWSMAX.COM ^ | JULY 18, 2005 | CARL LIMBACHER & STAFF

Posted on 07/18/2005 5:16:36 PM PDT by CHARLITE

U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said Monday the "achievement gap is beginning to close" between Hispanic and white students, while Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton countered that she's not convinced the federal government is doing enough to help Hispanic youth get through school.

Spellings and Clinton each spoke at the convention of the National Council of La Raza, a four-day event that ends Tuesday.

The two did not dispute statistics that show Latino students have the nation's highest high school dropout rate and the lowest college enrollment rate, but diverged on whether the government is fixing the problem. Praising No Child Left Behind, the education law President Bush signed in January 2002, Spellings pointed to National Assessment of Educational Progress scores released Thursday that show 9-year-olds, including Hispanics, have improved their reading and math scores.

"These results did not come out of thin air," Spellings said. "They came from a commitment to doing something that's never been done before, a commitment to giving every child a quality education."

"The achievement gap is beginning to close," she said.

But minutes later, the Democratic senator told the same group: "You are doing your part, but I don't know that your government is doing its part right now."

Clinton stressed that, though younger students' scores have improved, 17-year-olds have made virtually no gains since the tests first started being given 30 years ago.

"I'm not sure that we are doing everything we should to make your job easier, to make sure that the opportunity society is alive and well for everyone," she said.

Linda L. Silva, a Democratic organizer and advocate for Latinos in Concord County, Pa., stood with hundreds of others to applaud Clinton, particularly when the senator called for policy changes that would allow undocumented immigrant students to receive college aid.

Silva said she hopes to see Clinton enter the race for president in 2008. "There's no one else in America who has more integrity today," she said.

The welcome for Spellings was more muted.

Washington-based La Raza was founded in Phoenix in 1968 as a Mexican-American civil rights group and now is the nation's largest advocacy group for Hispanics. It represents 4 million members in 300 affiliates across the country.

Minutes after the speeches ended, eight people who said they want tighter controls on immigration walked into the Pennsylvania Convention Center where the meeting is being held wearing T-shirts and caps saying "U.S. Border Patrol," said Cecilia Munoz, vice president of La Raza. They were escorted from the building without incident, Munoz said.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: achievements; advances; behind; campaign; education; funding; hillaryclinton; hispanic; laraza; margaretspellings; nochildleft; pandering; politics; voters
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La Raza's motto: For the RACE, everything; outside of the RACE, nothing!"
1 posted on 07/18/2005 5:16:37 PM PDT by CHARLITE
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To: operation clinton cleanup; sageb1; Smartass; listenhillary; Mia T; ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton; ...
Hillary ping-a-ling!......and SLERTALERT!
2 posted on 07/18/2005 5:18:19 PM PDT by CHARLITE (I propose a co-Clinton team as permanent reps to Pyonyang, w/out possibility of repatriation....)
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From where I'm sitting, both Hillary and the Bush administration were pandering to La Raza at this event.
3 posted on 07/18/2005 5:20:37 PM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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To: CHARLITE

"Silva said she hopes to see Clinton enter the race for president in 2008. "There's no one else in America who has more integrity today," she said."

ROTFLMAO!


4 posted on 07/18/2005 5:22:54 PM PDT by mlc9852
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To: inquest

Sadly it looks that way from here as well.


5 posted on 07/18/2005 5:23:29 PM PDT by cripplecreek (If you must obey your party, may your chains rest lightly upon your shoulders.)
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To: CHARLITE

It won't be very long now until the pro-illegal, anti-law enforcement types show up on this thread, whining as usual.


6 posted on 07/18/2005 5:23:31 PM PDT by Trteamer ( (Eat Meat, Wear Fur, Own Guns, FReep Leftists, Drive an SUV, Drill A.N.W.R., Drill the Gulf, Vote)
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To: CHARLITE
Silva said she hopes to see Clinton enter the race for president in 2008. "There's no one else in America who has more integrity today," she said.

Oh my gosh.

7 posted on 07/18/2005 5:23:55 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Lord, we need a Logan miracle for Simcha7 and Cowboy. Please.)
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To: CHARLITE

This should be in Political Humor too, imo. :)

Thanks! BUMP


8 posted on 07/18/2005 5:24:49 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
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To: CHARLITE

Isn't La Raza a racist group?


9 posted on 07/18/2005 5:25:48 PM PDT by RoyalsFan (Freepmail me if you want on my Kansas City Royals ping list)
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To: CHARLITE; HiJinx

Well that's a new one - the "opportunity society." As far as I know this has been the "opportunity society" since 1776. Anyone has the opportunity to become whatever they want. All they have to do is work for it.


10 posted on 07/18/2005 5:26:10 PM PDT by Tarantulas (http://borderpundit.tarantulas.net - the BorderPundit blog - a Border Issues weblog)
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Soon they will open La raza schools at taxpayer expense.


11 posted on 07/18/2005 5:27:00 PM PDT by hsmomx3 (Steelers in '06)
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To: inquest
From where I'm sitting, both Hillary and the Bush administration were pandering to La Raza at this event.

Sure looks that way.

12 posted on 07/18/2005 5:27:48 PM PDT by afnamvet (Jet noise...The Sound of Freedom)
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To: CHARLITE
They are scary. They lure a lot of folks in by posing as a sort of advocacy group.

La Raza is violently anti-American!

This says it all, from you're title, and this is why sHillary panders to them. For her, it's anything goes just so long as it's anti-American. Nothing less will do.

13 posted on 07/18/2005 5:30:09 PM PDT by fortunecookie
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To: CHARLITE

Looks like Hillary is going for the racist vote.


14 posted on 07/18/2005 5:30:14 PM PDT by Brilliant
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Minutes after the speeches ended, eight people who said they want tighter controls on immigration walked into the Pennsylvania Convention Center where the meeting is being held wearing T-shirts and caps saying "U.S. Border Patrol,"

LOL! Conservative street theater really drives the leftists crazy.

15 posted on 07/18/2005 5:32:43 PM PDT by Trteamer ( (Eat Meat, Wear Fur, Own Guns, FReep Leftists, Drive an SUV, Drill A.N.W.R., Drill the Gulf, Vote)
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La Raza is violently anti-American!

What a coincidence, so is Hillary!

16 posted on 07/18/2005 5:33:53 PM PDT by CT
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Isn't La Raza a racist group?

Yes, based on one of the standard definitions of the word "racist".

17 posted on 07/18/2005 5:37:31 PM PDT by judgeandjury
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To: CT

Doesn't it make sense that the woman who got Bill to spring Puerto Rican terrorists would cozy up to LaRaza?


18 posted on 07/18/2005 5:37:46 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: CHARLITE
La Raza is violently anti-American!

No way, not these nice guys.


19 posted on 07/18/2005 5:47:10 PM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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To: CHARLITE

"There's no one else in America who has more integrity today," she said.




Then she AINT looked!


20 posted on 07/18/2005 5:48:42 PM PDT by cubreporter (I trust Rush. He has done more for this country than any of us will ever know! :))
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