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To: stephenjohnbanker; All

“March on D.C., or he will pull it off!”

The opposition is certainly planning on marching.

Obama risks alienating Latinos with lack of immigration reform
Mar. 5, 2010

I have known Barack Obama since 1986, when we were both community organizers. I am still organizing on the streets of Chicago, and what I see in the Latino community makes me fear that the president is oblivious to the pain wrought by our broken immigration system. It could have a profound effect on the 2010 and 2012 elections.

For a brief moment last year it appeared that Obama might realign the modern political map, cementing the Latino vote into the Democratic coalition by speaking plainly to the American people on the need for comprehensive immigration reform.

Instead, he squandered a political gift handed to him by the Republican Party’s nativist wing — and its anti-immigrant rhetoric — during the 2008 campaign. Candidate Obama promised to make immigration reform a priority during his first year in office, and the Latino vote surged to 10 million, from 7.8 million in 2004, and swung eight percentage points toward the Democrats.

After he went into politics, Obama and I worked collegially on issues as diverse as health care for working families to citizenship for new Americans

Obama was shocked at the visceral anger the fence vote caused among his closest Latino allies. At a meeting for damage control, Carmen Velásquez, founder of the Alivio Medical Center for the uninsured and the closest thing to the patron saint of the Mexican American poor, refused to shake his hand. Obama apologized for not understanding the intensity of their feelings —
Obama must lead the charge for immigration reform by telling Americans the truth: that tough, fair and compassionate immigration reform is necessary for America’s economy and national security, and not just for Latino voters. He must also, somehow, convince Latinos that he really does feel their pain. [snips]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/04/AR2010030404037.html


37 posted on 03/05/2010 8:03:58 AM PST by AuntB (WE are NOT a nation of immigrants! We're a nation of Americans! http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/)
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To: AuntB

“I have known Barack Obama since 1986, when we were both community TERRORISTS


55 posted on 03/05/2010 8:45:12 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINOS)
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To: AuntB

The viewpoint expressed in the article in your #37 is that of a race-baiting La Raza pimp.

The jerk seems to believe that because they got here, however illegally, they’re OWED food, housing, medical care, schooling for their niños along with free breakfast and lunch, ad nauseum.

Meanwhile they’ll continue to speak Spanish, denigrate America, wave their Mexican flags, and commit the crimes Americans won’t commit.

They are parasites. Deport them all along with their anchor babies.


60 posted on 03/05/2010 8:50:58 AM PST by jimt
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