Posted on 07/08/2006 3:02:49 AM PDT by Liz
If it wasn't for the fact that I haven't bought anything from McD's in over 15 years, I'd boycott them! :-)
>>I'll repeat what I said earlier:
The Melting Pot made America "one nation." Diversity seeks to divide it, one against the other.<<
You've got a good point - but there has always been some diversity.
Look, I think every last illegal alien should be deported, and President Bush ought to be impeached for derilection of duty, but I don't get why people are making a fuss over an ad for coffee.
Every one of Liz's posts are memorable. That's why I look forward to them.
Thank you, Liz.
Ray
>>As I posted earlier, launching the ad campaign now<<
Well this is a bad time to start advertising in Spanish - you are certainly right about that.
Are you sure they just started though? - mcDonalds are the people who sell wine French McD's and don't sell beef at all in areas with many Hindus.
Uh, how about just not patronizing McDonald's quietly and without fanfare.
Aw, you're just saying that 'cause it's true (grin).
I don't like illegals, I want them out and I also believe that multicultralism will be the dealth knell for this country.
That said, what McDonald's is doing here is no different when they have ads supporting Black History month and featured hip-hop artists and entertainers in their commercials. So having a Spanish ad or a commerical featuring J.Lo doesn't necessarily mean the End Times are nigh.
LOL----good one.
Oh, come on.....you can't be serious. They have somewhere north of what? how many million? customers every day.
I was expecting a serious idea from you of how I can protest this sign in a dignified way.
I called Mc D's customer complaint line, and rationaly explained to the nice person at the other end that an American institution like McDonalds shouldn't be involved in Balkanizing our country.
That my idea of dignified, what's yours?
Good point.
The street protestors--carrying Mexican flags--and the Mexican government share the same goals: legalize Mexican illegal aliens and keep the borders open.
The Mexican government sees this as a way to relieve economic pressure on their government to reform their economy....on the backs of US citizens.
Mexico's leaders work to retain the loyalty of the immigrant mobs so that, even if our laws allow them to become American citizens, they retain their loyalty to Mexico, are subjects of the Mexican government, and pledge fealty to Mexico.
In the Mexican Congress, it was recently announced that a document would be drafted, to show support for the protest marches in our country.
The Mexican government published advertisements in leading American newspapers calling for the legalization of illegal immigrants in the United States, and "a far-reaching guest workers scheme."
Not only that, said the ads, but "in order for a US guest workers program to be viable, Mexico should participate in its design, management, supervision and evaluation."
You're right - you and any other citizen can bitch at, criticize, and boycott a private company to your heart's content. The problem I have with this story is that the person calling for the boycott is the mayor, acting in his official capacity. And as beneficial as I think it is to have a common language, this sort of governmental interference in the affairs of a private business is more troubling than the 'problem' it purports to solve.
The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic.
He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.
There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else...." - Theodore Roosevelt
In the Senate, 77% of the republicans voted against the reform bill while 89% of the dems voted for.
"I don't like illegals, I want them out and I also believe that multicultralism will be the dealth knell for this country.
That said, what McDonald's is doing here is no different when they have ads supporting Black History month and featured hip-hop artists and entertainers in their commercials. So having a Spanish ad or a commerical featuring J.Lo doesn't necessarily mean the End Times are nigh."
It's multicultarism that gave us Black History Month [why is it that their only accomplishments happened in the month of February?...joke], but African-Americans are... AMERICANS! McDonald's can do whatever it wants to do, of course, but what in less fractious times would be simply "niche marketing" now seems at best an indirect endorsement of the illegal subculture that is working into most parts of our country and culture.
I would discount Dec 2005 votes. Voting patterns are more relevant after the infamous April 2006 street protests that opened the eyes of all Americans.
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