American Apology Tour Continues

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[Lou Budvis]

On Fox News this morning, State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley became the third Obama administration official in short succession to admit that he hadn’t actually bothered to read Arizona’s 10-page long “secure the border” bill before condemning it and criticizing Americans who support Arizona’s necessary efforts to do the job the Obama Administration should be doing. Crowley’s statement follows similar admissions from Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano.

At first blush this revelation seemed unbelievable, but maybe I shouldn’t be surprised. This now seems “the Washington way” of doing things. If the party in power tells us they have to pass bills in order to find out what’s actually in them, they can also criticize bills (and divide the country with ensuing rhetoric) without actually reading them.

Still I can’t help but feel outraged on behalf of Arizona’s citizens for the incompetence shown by these Administration officials. Arizonans have the courage to do what the Obama administration has failed to do in its first year and a half in office – namely secure our border and enforce our federal laws. And as a result, Arizonans have been subjected to a campaign of baseless accusations by the same people who freely admit they haven’t a clue about what they’re actually campaigning against.

[Lou Budvis]

The absolute low point of this campaign came last Friday, when a U.S. State Department delegation met with Chinese negotiators to discuss human rights. Apparently, our State Department felt it necessary to make their Chinese guests feel less bad about their own record of human rights abuses by repeatedly atoning for American “sins” – including, it seems, the Arizona immigration/pro-border security law. Asked if Arizona came up at all during the meeting, Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner answered:

“We brought it up early and often. It was mentioned in the first session, and as a troubling trend in our society and an indication that we have to deal with issues of discrimination or potential discrimination, and that these are issues very much being debated in our own society.”

Note that he said “We brought it up” – not the Chinese, but the U.S. State Department’s own delegation. Instead of grilling the Chinese about their appalling record on human rights, the State Department continued the unbelievable apology tour by raising “early and often” Arizona’s decision to secure our border.

Arizona’s law, which just mirrors the federal law, simply allows the police to ask those whom they have already stopped for some form of identification like a driver’s license. By what absurd stretch of the imagination is that the moral equivalent of China’s lack of freedoms, population controls (including forced abortions), censorship, and arbitrary detentions?

Surely our U.S. Ambassador to China, John Huntsman, must disagree with the Obama Administration’s continued apology tour? We have nothing to apologize for. If Administration officials want to apologize to anyone, apologize to the American people for the fact that after a year and a half in office, they still haven’t done anything to secure our borders, and they join our President in making false suggestions about Arizona’s effort.

- Sarah Palin

[US Navy Vet]

P.J. Crowley Col USAF (ret)

[Paladin2]

The “regime” is clearly retarded. Can’t even read.

[Spok]

Without getting into specifics, I have it on good authority that at least one Marine battalion is getting the sh*t kicked out of it in the Helmand Province. These apologies are getting more than a little g*dammed tiresome.

[RC2]

I believe that the world knows that the American people have nothing to apologize for. It’s the President and his administration that needs to apologize to the American people.

[fporretto]

Let us all please remember that Mrs. Palin was repeatedly called "unqualified" and "unprepared" for national office by the same persons who would eagerly leap to the defense of Eric "A Nation of Cowards" Holder. But would you imagine for a moment that Mrs. Palin, during her time as Alaska's Governor, would have signed a bill into state law without reading it first?

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto

[scory]

The Obama Administration is driven by ideology. They are incapable of addressing real world issues with real world analyses or real world solutions. The wording of the Arizona law is irrelevent to them. To the typical leftist the Arizona law is simply wrong because it isn’t one written and passed by committed leftists. If it had been they wouldn’t read it either (just as they won’t read the huge bills they ram through congress) but it would be “right” because it was put together and passed by the “right people”.

[OneWingedShark]

What they need to apologize for is the politicians of America being such asshats...

[Rapscallion]

If Administration officials want to apologize to anyone, apologize to the American people for the fact that after a year and a half in office, they still haven’t done anything to secure our borders,.....

Folks you could not make up this stuff. Our leaders become more hateful, partisan, and demented day by day.

NOTE TO SARAH PALIN: Keep the pressure on.

[bergmeid]

All this shows that the administration is out for only one thing: immigrant votes. They can only achieve that by attacking the AZ law. And since the AZ law is fully constitutional (which they full well know it is) the only thing left to do is deny that you have ever read it. The alternative would be too painful for them, which is admit that there’s nothing wrong with it.

[NurdlyPeon]

Rush was just discussing this on the radio. The way he flowed through the subject, it almost seemed like he was just reading the quote from Sarah. Go Rush!!! Go Sarah!!!

[gwjack]

Spok:

Thank you for your service. Yes, the “war” in Afghanistan deserves our (and the administration’s) full attention.
My nephew in Khost province does not paint a much rosier picture.

Again, thank you for your service, and your comment. I hope our sons and daughters will be able to hold the line until adults are in charge.

Gwjack

[Cyber Liberty]

Asked if Arizona came up at all during the meeting, Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner answered:

“We brought it up early and often. It was mentioned in the first session, and as a troubling trend in our society and an indication that we have to deal with issues of discrimination or potential discrimination, and that these are issues very much being debated in our own society.”

This is infuriating. Rat bastard not only slaps AZ, he does it in service to bowing deeply to the Chicoms, of all people. He fights us harder than he fights anybody else in the world. Who does he think he is, John McCain?

[Thunder90]

Obama apoligized to Russia for the Cold War and our handling of Vietnam