[TomGuy]

Team Bush, via Tony Snow, has become a member of a special group: gobbledegookers.

Clinton was well known for parsing words and Kerry became expert at nuancing word meanings. Now, Team Bush, who continue to say that amnesty isn't amnesty have applied a nomenclature to their own brand of verbalization: linguistic precision.

On tape: Tony Snow - It isn't amnesty.

That still doesn't change the fact that, allowing millions of illegals to continue unabated, is, by its very nature, a form of pardon, and that is defined by most dictionaries as amnesty.

[mnehring]

Technically, a pardon is a more accurate term as there is a punishment assigned to the crime.

amnesty
n. a blanket abolition of an offense by the government, with the legal result that those charged or convicted have the charge or conviction wiped out. Examples: a) the amnesty given to Confederate officials and soldiers after the Civil War, or b) President Jimmy Carter's granting amnesty (under certain conditions) to those who violated the Selective Service Act in evading the draft during the Vietnam War. The basis for amnesty is generally because the war or other conditions that made the acts criminal no longer exist or have faded in importance. Amnesty is not a pardon as some believe, since a pardon implies forgiveness, and amnesty indicates a reason to overlook or forget the offenses.

[RodgerD]

linguistic precision

It's amazing that anyone is buying this nonsense from these folks. They contrive a new fake straw man definition of Amnesty (instant citizenship etc) and then say that their universal legalization of illegal aliens isn't the Amnesty the dictionary says it is.

Hopefully their dishonest scam will meet its deserved demise at the hand of the House.

[DumpsterDiver]

Now, Team Bush, who continue to say that amnesty isn't amnesty...

Amnesty is an automatic path to citizenship.

This is not an automatic path to citizenship.

This is a comprehensive pathway that will bring millions out of the shadows and into the light.

YUMA, AZ -- "First of all, in this debate there should be -- nobody should be given an automatic citizenship -- that's called amnesty. I oppose amnesty. Amnesty would be unfair to those who are here lawfully, to those who have played by the rules. Amnesty would undermine the rule of law. And amnesty would invite a further wave of illegal immigrants."

-- Pres. Bush
5/18/2006