Posted on 05/20/2008 11:17:33 AM PDT by mgist
I’m not very informed with the percentages, but as an observer on the ground, I must say that Hispanics are as racists as the next ethnic group, if not more. In many cases I don’t even see the majority of Hispanics voting for a woman.
(This is slightly related, but not really)
I am married to a Russian and I was talking to a cousin of her’s. He works for the United Russia political party as a spin Dr. in his region and I asked him who he would like me to vote for. He said: “Not Hillary, women have no place in politics; not Mccain, he will spend too much money on Iraq; Obama...maybe.”
There’s a joke I like to recite sometimes about the a lowly 3rd world country president.
The President of Nicaragua (any 3rd world country can be named) goes into his office in the morning and asks the secretary what appointments he has that morning. The secretary says: “we have a slight problem, the President and the Pope were booked at the same time, who would you like to meet first?” The president thinks for a second and he says: “let the Pope in first, at least I only have to kiss his ring.”
Call me crazy but I think Obama will give that treatment instead of receiving it.
You are certifiable. McCain wants to grant amnesty to the 15 to 20 million illegals already here who will in turn be able to sponsor 70 to 100 million more LEGAL IMMIGRANTS thru chain migration, i.e., family reunification. This country will be destroyed forever with a stroke of a pen. We can't absorb those kinds of numbers.
Legalizing the illegal doesn't solve the illegal immigration problem that has been ongoing for the past twenty years or the entire time McCain has been in Congress.
The Border Patrol apprehends and sends back a million people a year who are trying to enter this country illegally. Another 500,000 to one million are able to evade the BP and get into the country. These people are coming here to get jobs and to escape the corruption and poverty of their own countries. McCain's amnesty policy rewards law breakers and will encourage many more to come in for the next amnesty.
Carter certified the Chavez election. President Bush has done a good job supporting Uribe. McCain will do a better job than Obama. McCain is pro life, will fight for the best itnerest of our country, and support our allies.
I’m not excited about any presidential candidate. I have posted a time or two that McCain could win and receive a good vote from white and Hispanic Democrats because they wouldn’t vote for the black candidate. Then McCain would brag about his victory and how he won back the Reagan Democrats and how the Hispanics supported him because of his humane approach to illegal immigration.
That could very well happen, and McCain would never acknowledge the real explanation: a bunch of white and Hispanics Dems. who wouldn’t vote for the black guy.
The Greeks knew of this scenario......and it is no coincidence it sounds a lot like Kaka.....
kakistocracy (kak·is·toc·ra·cy) n.
Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.
YES-— it is a REAL word, and perfectly describes what America has become.
I understand your point, but the vast majority of the illegals come from Mexico and Central America, not South America.
If Obama supports despotic governements and FARC, they will win, people will flee the destruction. The mass illegal immigration is due to populist leaders like Obama who have conned people with the help of failed American foreign policy from Carter and Clinton.
Nonsense. The vast majority of immigrants, legal and illegal, are coming here for the opportunities and the money, not fleeing despotic governments. Poverty, not oppression is the real reason they are coming. We have a program to handle asylum seekers.
It has to be a grassroots effort.
Ain't gonna happen for the GOP then. The grassroots are the only thing standing between congress and shamnesty. We aren't about to go into hispander mode for the sake of McCain.
Demography is destiny. In 1965 Hispanics made up 1% of the population. Today they are 16% and by 2050 they will be 29%. Immigration, legal and illegal, has changed the demography of this country dramatically. Getting 40% while the Dems get 60% will make us the permanent minority party. It is simple math. By 2050, non-Hispanic whites will be 47% of the population.
Hispanics have a 45% out of wedlock birth rate, second only to blacks with 68%. They have they highest school drop out rate, by far. Their birthrate is twice the general population. They have the highest teen pregnancy rate. This is the social pathology for failure and greater dependence on government. They are a typical Dem constituency. These statistics don't indicate that they are receptive to the conservative message.
Cubans are the exception.
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