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Condoleezza Rice calls for a ‘compassionate’ immigration policy at RNC
Yahoo! News ^ | August. 29, 2012 | Chris Moody

Posted on 08/29/2012 7:34:52 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

TAMPA-- Former Sec. of State Condoleezza Rice implored Republicans to champion a "compassionate" immigration policy in her speech at the Republican National Convention Wednesday.

"We must continue to welcome the world's most ambitious people to be a part of us. In that way we stay young and optimistic and determined," Rice said. "We need immigration laws that protect our borders; meet our economic needs; and yet show that we are a compassionate people."

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KEYWORDS: aliens; condi; condirice; immigration
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To: Eaker

I think most here fall somewhere between Conservative Statist and Conservative Libertarian. And I doubt everyone is Pro-Life.


121 posted on 08/30/2012 1:46:34 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: Gene Eric

If one is pro-homo, pro-abortion, pro-lying and pro-illegal alien then one isn’t a conservative.

Kind of like saying the Moon is made out of cheese doesn’t mean it really is because it really isn’t. You can have your own opinion but not your own facts.

Being a conservative has a real meaning.


122 posted on 08/30/2012 2:05:16 AM PDT by Eaker (Stripping Americans of their freedom and dignity and rubbing their noses in it is a very bad idea.)
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To: Eaker

>> You can have your own opinion but not your own facts.
>> Being a conservative has a real meaning.

Agreed.

I’m talking about the difference between Statism and Libertarianism (the opposite of Statism) in the Conservative context which centers on Life, traditions, traditional marriage, small gov, pro-Military, etc.

As a Conservative Libertarian, I’m not that interested in having the govt enforce my Conservative views. A Conservative Statist would rely on the govt to enforce his Conservative views.


123 posted on 08/30/2012 2:41:53 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: SeminoleCounty

I thought Rice’s speech was very Pro American. She brought the house down.


124 posted on 08/30/2012 4:22:01 AM PDT by dalebert
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To: dragnet2
I know you are smarter and have a bigger influence on the world because you sit and opine at a computer. What you say and think doesn't mean squat because you don't have all the facts!

I guess I've always admired people who can make a speech in front of millions with or without a teleprompter...now more than ever.

125 posted on 08/30/2012 4:33:57 AM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: BillyBoy

Grow up.


126 posted on 08/30/2012 4:35:32 AM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Has she read the Republican Platform?


127 posted on 08/30/2012 4:40:47 AM PDT by Delhi Rebels (There was a row in Silver Street - the regiments was out.)
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To: newzjunkey

I took Rice’s immigration position to mean, especially since it was given in the context of Silicon Valley entrepreneurship, that our immigration policy should be “compassionate” (i.e., favor) those who are educated, skilled, and have high-thinking, high-value human capital assets to bring to bear for which we may have a shortage. It’s important to favor the best and the brightest minds getting in, like we did in the past before opening the floodgates to no-value, bottom-barrel leechers of our system. Favoring brainiacs by, for example, moving them to the head of the line, is exactly what we need in a globalized, highly-competitve economy. “Compassion” as she applied it means breaking rank with a purely first-in-time, first-in-right legal immigration policy to select for those who will add the most to the American ethos without depriving existing Americans of opportunities. Anyone who has lived in Silicon Vallry has seen how prolific the concentration of first-generation, highly accomplished immigrants live there to contribute to the most important economic engine our economy has, and that brainpower selectivity should be applied to the entire system so that those sorts of folks are the ones we’re prioritizing in by having “compassion” for what they offer and move them to the front of the line.


128 posted on 08/30/2012 4:42:06 AM PDT by seraphMTH
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To: Free ThinkerNY

We need to get our immigration system under control .We’re not able to absorb the numbers of legal and illegal’s that are coming into this country and it’s ruining this society.


129 posted on 08/30/2012 5:13:48 AM PDT by puppypusher (The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood; AuntB; Tennessee Nana
Bring all the troops home, get out of the Foreign entanglements, then put the troops on the southern border and seal it shut. Then tell Mexico to Pound Salt, and go to Hell......if that isn’t enough take over their Oil Fields......

Man, that sounds good to me.....lotta good ideas expressed there. L.o.v.e the part about taking over Mexico's oil fields.

More than appropriate----since the Mehicanos are financing their Fifth Column over the border into the US to hollow out the US govt from within........preparing for reconquista.

130 posted on 08/30/2012 5:26:40 AM PDT by Liz
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To: All

Oh please....a.n.o.t.h.e.r “brilliant” idea from Condi?

How well we remember her “brilliance” when she sap-happily proclaimed Pakistan was “ ready to share power”........

Nehru’s daughter got into the race for office-—and was promptly assasinated.


131 posted on 08/30/2012 5:30:55 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Free ThinkerNY
How about a bit of your progressive compassion for hard working AMERICAN CITIZENS that love this republic and are tired of the crime and our very social fabric rotting from third world societal norms... Mizz rice?

LLS

132 posted on 08/30/2012 5:47:29 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (If romney is our only chance... we have less of a chance than a Massachusetts fetus.)
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To: stanne

Let’s send the ‘Compassionate Condo’ to the border with no security and let here preach compassion to the US Citizens that live on the Mex border. I remember Condo’s compassion did the Israeli’s a lot of good when the Pali’s elected Hamas. Note how this bunch of Romney Repubs are so afraid to address illegal immigrants and the Black Mob attacks? Cowards like these will not do much to straighten out this country.


133 posted on 08/30/2012 5:52:49 AM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: dalebert

“Going for the Hispanic vote” with amnesty will be the end of even as much of a conservative majority that we can sometimes still muster.

Bringing in massive numbers of uneducated peasants (whose offspring too often still resist education three generations in) and giving them immediate, favored, ‘protected’ status—as we do with every single Hispanic immigrant—will be the death of this country.


134 posted on 08/30/2012 5:57:20 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: iopscusa

She does not impress me.


135 posted on 08/30/2012 6:26:09 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Emperor Palpatine
You just don’t understand politics, do you? She HAD to say that.

Hola American stupidos

136 posted on 08/30/2012 7:34:01 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Free ThinkerNY; 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; ...
Ping!

Click the keyword Aliens to see more illegal alien, border security, and other related threads.

137 posted on 08/30/2012 8:05:38 AM PDT by HiJinx (He who controls the water, controls life.)
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To: BillyBoy

My head is spinning because I’m trying to figure out what’s going on here. Just a very few weeks ago, Freepers were aghast at the rumor Condi might be Romney’s VP; her record was, quite rightfully, posted all over this site as proof she would be a poor choice. But last night on the live convention thread, everybody was swooning over her, weeping, and gushing how much they love her.


138 posted on 08/30/2012 8:44:06 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
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To: 9YearLurker

I dont think she meant bringing in.


139 posted on 08/30/2012 11:05:06 AM PDT by dalebert
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To: BillyBoy

Sorry . I have a lot of respect for her.


140 posted on 08/30/2012 11:14:41 AM PDT by dalebert
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