Posted on 07/23/2007 8:53:01 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
Appearing in Miami before La Raza, the largest Hispanic lobbying group in the country, Senator Barak Obama touted his credentials as a supporter of illegal immigration:
Sen. Barack Obama told the nation's largest Hispanic advocacy group yesterday that he earned their support for his presidential campaign by marching in last year's May 1 immigrant rallies and challenged them to learn whether others met that standard.
"Find out how many senators appeared before an immigration rally last year. Who was talking the talk, and who walked the walk — because I walked," Mr. Obama said at the National Council of La Raza's annual convention in Miami Beach. "I didn't run away from the issue, and I didn't just talk about it in front of Latino audiences."
The Illinois Democrat said the recent Senate immigration debate "was both ugly and racist in a way we haven't see since the struggle for civil rights." Those rallies were clearly hijacked by the open borders lobby and sought to legitimize the lawbreaking done by illegal immigrants by agitating for amnesty. And the strategy of tarring their political opponents as "racist" for supporting measures that would keep the border from becoming a crossing point for terrorists as well as standing up for the rule of law is outrageous. Even pandering to increase his share of the Hispanic vote is no excuse for that kind of insulting rhetoric.
The intent. of course, is to cut off further debate on the issue - something the open borders crowd would dearly love since most Americans oppose their suicidal ideas about immigration. Obama may raise his standing among Hispanics with that kind of rhetoric. But it won't help him in many other areas of the country. And given that he is so far behind Hillary Clinton in the national polls, it may not be good politics to get so many so mad at you.
“As leader of the Executive Branch, I promise that I will not enforce the country’s laws! Now, all you folks who are not citizens, please remember to come out and vote for me!”
I wish him all the luck in the world, becoming President too. Of Mexico, that is.
It's time we called a Spade a Spade.
Exactly.
Vote 'em ALL OUT in 08!!!
Comparing the illegals' plight to the civil rights struggles is just as bad as when the homosexuals did it. There's simply no comparison.
La Raza is here illegally. No one needs to be pandering to them. La Raza people all say they are from McAllen, Tx. Now what does that say about them?
“But keep playing that card Obama.
It’s time we called a Spade a Spade.”
Are you busy bad mouthing shovels again by comparing them to the Obamination?
;-)
Obama might as well be Osama : )
Obama Osama Namma Jamma!
“As leader of the Executive Branch, I promise that I will not enforce the country’s laws!”
Uhhh, how does that differ from “our” guy?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Wasn’t O bama conceived in Alabama a year before the freedom march? He was caught in this lie.
“The fact that both sides of our gov’t regularly speak to a fifth-column is disturbing.”
To say the least!
ping
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