Posted on 06/15/2012 1:52:16 PM PDT by C19fan
Mitt Romney criticized President Obamas decision to give legal status to young adult illegal immigrants today, saying that the executive action had made it more difficult to bring about a long-term solution.
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UPDATE: Its worth noting that, according to a couple of reporters, Romney was asked if he would reverse Obamas order if he was elected and didnt respond.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Yes, that’s true. This Obama has to be impeached.
LLS
chicagotribune.com
This election, being Obama is bad, but being the non-Obama won’t help Romney
President’s rival is like Illinois’ white-shoe Republicans, helping to spend state into debt
John Kass
June 24, 2012
President Barack Obama has had a terrible few weeks, and it could get worse.
Especially if the Supreme Court accepts the ancient premise in that old, forgotten document called the Constitution that the federal leviathan cannot force Americans to purchase a thing, let alone health care.
But I still believe that the guy from Chicago will win re-election in November, despite all the anguish around him, because the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, isn’t exactly inspiring either.
Romney is no conservative alternative, he’s merely the un-Obama corporatist, eerily similar to the big-government Illinois Republicans who partnered with Democrats to spend the state into crippling debt, those white-shoe Republicans whom Obama dealt with and learned from during his brief political apprenticeship here. He knows the type.
So if the 2012 presidential race is on Obama’s ground, if it’s about government subsidies for business versus government subsidies for select demographic voting constituencies, and if all of us in America keep our hands extended, waiting for government plums, then Obama wins. It’s Chicago machine politics writ large.
But there are problems for the president. Centrist Democrats in the Clinton wing can’t help but peel away from him, perhaps looking for a safe landing, or maybe they’ve got eyes on a Hillary Clinton-Rahm Emanuel ticket in 2016.
Watching Obama squirm next to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin recently, Obama avoiding eye-contact as they met to discuss Russian ambition and the catastrophe in Syria, you couldn’t help but remember Mrs. Clinton’s campaign commercial about that 3 a.m. phone call.
Our American president must have learned about not making eye contact with strongmen during his days in Chicago dealing with the Democratic bosses. And the first thing I thought of was how a President Hillary Clinton would have sat with Putin, perched on the edge of her chair, staring dispassionately at the Russian leader as if she were a velociraptor.
And if she had a paring knife in her purse, she might have peeled him like an apple....
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-met-kass-0624-20120625,0,1176219,print.column
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