Wow. Talk about denial.
Are you seriously suggesting that W didn't really care about this bill?
He cared so much about passing this bill that he was willing to destroy the party to get it passed.
One of the President’s weaknesses is that he confuses the personal with the political. President Bush has many Latino friends, and has Latinos in his family. Because of that, he acts as if failure to give radical Latino leaders (nearly all of whom are leftist Democrats) whatever they want would somehow be an insult to his friends and family members.
The irony here is that he’s assuming there’s a racial pack mentality among Latinos, even as he was accusing those of us opposed to the immigration bill of bigotry. Bush simply ASSUMES that Latinos are so driven by preference for their own race that they would side with criminal illegal aliens against their fellow citizens, for no other reason than that those criminal aliens are mostly of their race.
Of course, in the Politically Correct world in which we live, it’s okay for any group other than whites to operate as a racial pack. Thus, we have groups such as La Raza (”The Race”), and politicians not only find that to be okay, but even speak to their gatherings and denounce anyone opposing their racially-driven agenda as “bigots”.