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Obama: Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs Spur Latino Hate
Newsmax ^ | May 23, 2008 | Staff

Posted on 05/23/2008 10:17:57 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Presidential candidate Barack Obama used a Florida fundraiser to attack conservative media personalities Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh for their militant stand on immigration policy.

Appearing Thursday at the Westin Diplomat near Fort Lauderdale, Obama lashed out at critics of illegal immigrants and migrant workers.

During his speech, Obama said, "A certain segment has basically been feeding a kind of xenophobia. There’s a reason why hate crimes against Hispanic people doubled last year.”

Who is behind the rise in hate crimes?

Obama left no doubt who he believes to be the culprits. “If you have people like Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh ginning things up, it’s not surprising that would happen,” he told the crowd.

According to press reports, Obama collected more than $500,000 from some 800 donors at the event.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; aliens; bo; borders; elections; illegalimmigration; immigrantlist; immigration; obama; rushlimbaugh; talkradio; television
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To: Clemenza
Obama is using the wrong strategy to get the Cuban-American vote...


21 posted on 05/23/2008 10:27:48 AM PDT by weegee (We cant keep our homes on 72 at all times & just expect that other countries are going to say OK -BO)
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To: avacado
One of the ironic things is that many "working class" whites are technically poor, but still refer to themselves as "middle class."

In any event, Barry is toast among neer do well whites, to say nothing of non-Mexican Hispanics.

22 posted on 05/23/2008 10:27:59 AM PDT by Clemenza (Why do I Find Myself Attracted to Amy Winehouse?)
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To: Anonymous Rex

Maybe Obama needs to run for president of Mexico.


23 posted on 05/23/2008 10:28:06 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Ask me again tomorrow.)
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To: avacado

“Can you imagine a politician today coming out and saying: “My platform is to get all Americans working and working harder and to take full responsibility for themselves.”

If only that would happen!


24 posted on 05/23/2008 10:28:58 AM PDT by FMBass ("Now that I'm sober I watch a lot of news"- Garofalo from Coulter's "Treason")
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To: marron

To the Mexican immigrants who feel they are wrongly treated with skepticism or even contempt. How do they act towards the Guatemalan immigrants to Mexico (legal and illegal)?


25 posted on 05/23/2008 10:29:36 AM PDT by weegee (We cant keep our homes on 72 at all times & just expect that other countries are going to say OK -BO)
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To: Kirkwood

You should hear my wife, who is a naturalized legal US citizen of Central American origin, complain about the illegals. Why should she have had to jump through all the hoops to gain citizenship when these folks would get it “free”? We live in Miami, and most of my neighbors are legal immigrants from various Latin American countries who feel the same way she does.

Hey, Obama, you’re preaching to the wrong choir!


26 posted on 05/23/2008 10:33:53 AM PDT by Sigurdrifta
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What part of “illegal” does BHO not understand?


27 posted on 05/23/2008 10:34:06 AM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: weegee

Mexico deports some 200,000 illegals each year.

Their border is most definitely not open to illegal immigration from their brother republics. They do not believe in the supposed benefits of cheaper immigrant labor as a boost to the economy, not when its their own economy.


28 posted on 05/23/2008 10:34:20 AM PDT by marron
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

See: Obama and La Raza

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/03/obama-and-la-ra.html


29 posted on 05/23/2008 10:35:05 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY ((((Obama's issues would be better resolved in a psychotherapists office, than in the Oval Office))))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“There’s a reason why hate crimes against Hispanic people doubled last year.””

What a clueless POS. How about hate crimes by HIspanic gangbangers against YOUR people, Barack? What about Jamiel Shaw...ever hear of him? When you do, tell John McCain.


30 posted on 05/23/2008 10:36:23 AM PDT by AuntB (Vote Obama! ..........Because ya can't blame 'the man' when you are the 'man'.... Wanda Sikes)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Oh man, now I am a “bitter religion clinging, gun totting, typical white woman who loves Rush”, any more adjectives and I wont be able to sign my name.
31 posted on 05/23/2008 10:37:11 AM PDT by svcw (There is no plan B.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hey Barry great speech!! You need to keep it up!!! Add a line about how the poor migrants need our help and support and should get everything free.

Not enough have heard your brilliance yet - you need to tell more people about your ideas as soon as possible.

32 posted on 05/23/2008 10:37:21 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Will this thread be jacked by a Mormon?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama is implying that people are sitting at home making paper chains listening to Rush and hear him mention illegal immigration, and decide that they will now hate everyone who even looks like they might be from south of the border.

Senator, Rush’s audience tunes in and hears someone voicing some of their own beliefs publicly. We have very few intelligent choices of medium in which we hear our own opinions, and possible ways to fight for what we believe.

Americans of ALL colors hanging on to middle class while living in a city overrun with illegals who care not one whit for America and her customs, laws, or etiquette, are sick of this Slavery Lite that the employers profit somewhat from, but the cities and taxpayers overfund. Who cares what the illegals look like? It’s the fact that they are breaking the law by being here, and that we are forced to subsidize them when we’d rather spend our social services money to help Americans in need.


33 posted on 05/23/2008 10:37:30 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rush has Cookie feverishly searching for this sound bite...stay tuned.


34 posted on 05/23/2008 10:39:14 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Yaelle
I never understood why you folks in Cali never learned the dirty little tricks we use in NJ: 1. Limit rentals to certain areas, 2. keep illegals and the American ghetto underclass in said areas (usually rotten industrial cities like Paterson and Camden, where no sane person would want to live anyway).

"Snob zoning" works where I'm from. Its a key reason why folks here don't go ballistic on the immigration issue (even though I think they should).

35 posted on 05/23/2008 10:39:52 AM PDT by Clemenza (Why do I Find Myself Attracted to Amy Winehouse?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In my 60’s riot torn, 90’s sanctuary town those hate crimes tend to be performed by Blacks on Hispanics. The largest crime being the mugging of just paid Friday workers coming out of the local bars. The intoxicated ones make for easy prey. Sometimes they go overboard and the beating results in a death.

So Barry, since Rush and Lou probably don’t have very large Black audiences, how are they to blame?


36 posted on 05/23/2008 10:41:42 AM PDT by Edison (I don't know what irks me more, the lying or the incompetence.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
the bs about ending partisan bickering and working together with everyone didn't last long
37 posted on 05/23/2008 10:43:57 AM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: svcw
Oh man, now I am a “bitter religion clinging, gun totting, typical white woman who loves Rush”, any more adjectives and I wont be able to sign my name.


You and me both, think we will be sent to the gallows upon Hussein being crowned King?


I cannot believe the MSM have successfully marketed this goon as a "unity" candidate and President Bush as an evil "divider".
38 posted on 05/23/2008 10:44:42 AM PDT by roses of sharon ( (Who will be McCain's maverick?))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I don't know where he got that statistic, but it wasn't from the FBI. They haven't tabulated the 2007 Hate Crimes yet. Or at least, it isn't online. If he meant it doubled between 2005 and 2006, he's wrong. In 2005 there were 722 Hispanic victims of a hate crime (which includes "experiencing intimidation" by the way) and in 2006 there were 819.

http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/civilrights/hate.htm

39 posted on 05/23/2008 10:44:42 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maybe now Limbaugh would get off McCain’s back and shoot at the right target.


40 posted on 05/23/2008 10:45:05 AM PDT by The_Republican (Ovaries of the World Unite! Rush, Laura, Ann, Greta - Time for the Ovulation!)
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