On the contrary, one of the pre-election things I heard from him is that he told LULAC and La Raza that "there won't be any amnesties, but we will push for some sort of guest worker program" and "Oh, I'll pertect the borders".
Read my lips, Jorge: No new amnesties!
He lied just like his father did.
On the contrary, one of the pre-election things I heard from him is that he told LULAC and La Raza that "there won't be any amnesties, but we will push for some sort of guest worker program" and "Oh, I'll pertect the borders".
See my earlier post on how politicians "relabel" unpopular measures so as to fool the public. Yes, this is lying to reasonable people, but it isn't technically lying and allows him to get away with it. He's just as slick as Slick Willie, he just doesn't seem as sleazy, and therefore can get away with it. Bush will just call this some kind of variation of a guest worker program; there's no way he's going to label this an amnesty (even though it is, de facto, if not de jure). And since the media and the leadership of both parties agree with what Bush is doing, he will not get called on it to the same extent his father was on taxes. Also, we may be in an economic upswing by 2004, in which case he has that going for him too - unlike his father.