Posted on 07/25/2011 11:50:31 AM PDT by markomalley
President Obama let his frustration over the stalled debt talks seep into an address on Latino issues on Monday, confessing that he’d like to “bypass Congress and change the laws on my own.”
He told the National Council of La Raza, “Believe me, the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting. I promise you.”
But he told the group meeting at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel that he has to work with Congress and will continue to fight for what he called a “balanced” plan that does not focus solely on spending cuts but that spreads the sacrifice to the wealthiest Americans as well.
La Raza—and activist Latinos elsewhere—are disappointed in the president for not keeping his promise to champion comprehensive immigration reform in his first year in office. They are particularly angry that his administration has been aggressive in deporting undocumented immigrants, but the president defended the record number of deportations, contending he has had no choice.
“Those are the laws on the books,” said Obama. “I swore an oath to uphold the laws on the books. That doesn’t mean I don’t know very well the real pain and heartbreak that deportations cause.”
He added that he shares the concerns of Latinos. “I understand them and I promise you we are responding to your concerns and working every day to make sure we are enforcing flawed laws in the most humane and best possible way.”
His ''I'd like to change'' comment followed a section in his speech that mentioned the limitations of Washington in stopping deportations. He then spoke of his frustrations in dealing with Congress. His ''bypass Congress'' comment drew applause and chants of "Yes, You Can," a 2008 campaign slogan.
I recall an interview with President Bush (#43) early in the first term. After being asked how he liked working with Congress, he jokingly responded with something like "... it would be nice to be King... so I could accomplish my objectives ...". [no URls handy, might search later.]
The press excoriated him over that remark.
Now we'll see if they treat He-Whose-Name-I-Won't-Mention the same way.
So he does not believe in Democracy but just barely tolerates it.
Many other dictators have done just this in the past.YOU Mr OBama wil not be doing this to the USA!
Video - "If this were a dictatorship things would be a heckuva lot easier"
We all know what happened to HIM and his mistress....................
“Believe me, the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting. I promise you.”
Reichstag fire event, martial law, suspension of elections, dismiss congress, El Presidente-for-Life, rule by decree.
” That doesn’t mean I don’t know very well the real pain and heartbreak that deportations cause.”
But, it doesn’t matter to him about the COST to the LEGAL citizens who have to pay for the ILLEGALS!
SPIT!!!
That is why he is pushing Don’t ask don’t tell; to destroy the elisted corp of the military. He has already got the officers corp in his pocket
About the dumbest thing he’s said yet. Translated...I’m a dictator and if I could get away with it.....
Sickening!
This comes as no surprise to those of us who have been paying attention.
I would expect that the chances are 50/50 that the Obama regime manufactures a ‘crisis’ or ‘man made disaster’ within the next twelve months so they can usurp the Constitution and make him Dictator for Life.
All those guns/grenades/rocket launchers/night vision equipment/ body armor that the Obama regime sold to the drug cartels and Hamas/Hezbollah in Mexico went there for a purpose and that purpose was not to push for banning the second amendment.
Do not let your guard down and be ready for it.
F*cking jug-ear pansy ass crybaby. I hope that we are able to kick his Socialist ass to the curb come November 2012. I’m sick of him.
ALL leftists are wannabe dictators. Every last one of them. It’s just that Obama’s brain-to-mouth filter has been weakened somewhat out of frustration — he thought ruling by decree would be a lot easier.
POTUS Obama = Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, Chavez, Castro, Idi Amin, Wright, Ayres, Farrakhan, Soros, etc. Obama, the dictator/tyrant above all else. Man, this guy Obama really hates America!!! This fellow is bad news for America, no matter how you size it up!!!
He reminds me of Stalin. I guess one socialist dictator isn't that much different from another. People end up starving and dying no matter what.
Exclusive: The Truth About ‘La Raza’
by Rep. Charlie Norwood
04/07/2006
The nation’s television screens many days recently have been filled with scenes of huge crowds carrying the colorful green and red flag of Mexico viewers could well have thought it was a national holiday in Mexico City.
It was instead, downtown Los Angeles, Calif., although the scene was recreated in numerous other cities around the country with substantial Mexican populations. Hordes of Mexican expatriates, many here illegally, were protesting the very U.S. immigration laws they were violating with impunity. They found it offensive and a violation of their rights that the U.S. dared to have immigration laws to begin with.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa mounted the podium, but any hopes that he would quiet the crowds and defend the law were soon dashed. Villaraigosa, himself, has spent a lifetime opposing U.S. immigration law.
For law-abiding Americans without knowledge of the dark side of our current illegal immigration crisis, all this is unfathomable. For those who know the truth about the “La Raza” movement, these demonstrations were a prophecy fulfilled.
It is past time for all Americans to know what is at the root of this outrageous behavior, and the extent to which the nation is at risk because of “La Raza” — The Race.
There are many immigrant groups joined in the overall “La Raza” movement. The most prominent and mainstream organization is the National Council de La Raza — the Council of “The Race”.
To most of the mainstream media, most members of Congress, and even many of their own members, the National Council of La Raza is no more than a Hispanic Rotary Club.
But the National Council of La Raza succeeded in raking in over $15.2 million in federal grants last year alone, of which $7.9 million was in U.S. Department of Education grants for Charter Schools, and undisclosed amounts were for get-out-the-vote efforts supporting La Raza political positions.
The Council of La Raza succeeded in having itself added to congressional hearings by Republican House and Senate leaders. And an anonymous senator even gave the Council of La Raza an extra $4 million in earmarked taxpayer money, supposedly for “housing reform,” while La Raza continues to lobby the Senate for virtual open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens.
Radical ‘Reconquista’ Agenda
Behind the respectable front of the National Council of La Raza lies the real agenda of the La Raza movement, the agenda that led to those thousands of illegal immigrants in the streets of American cities, waving Mexican flags, brazenly defying our laws, and demanding concessions.
Key among the secondary organizations is the radical racist group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA), one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the American West.
One of America’s greatest strengths has always been taking in immigrants from cultures around the world, and assimilating them into our country as Americans. By being citizens of the U.S. we are Americans first, and only, in our national loyalties.
This is totally opposed by MEChA for the hordes of illegal immigrants pouring across our borders, to whom they say:
“Chicano is our identity; it defines who we are as people. It rejects the notion that we...should assimilate into the Anglo-American melting pot...Aztlan was the legendary homeland of the Aztecas ... It became synonymous with the vast territories of the Southwest, brutally stolen from a Mexican people marginalized and betrayed by the hostile custodians of the Manifest Destiny.” (Statement on University of Oregon MEChA Website, Jan. 3, 2006)
MEChA isn’t at all shy about their goals, or their views of other races. Their founding principles are contained in these words in “El Plan Espiritual de Aztlan” (The Spiritual Plan for Aztlan):
“In the spirit of a new people that is conscious not only of its proud historical heritage but also of the brutal gringo invasion of our territories, we, the Chicano inhabitants and civilizers of the northern land of Aztlan from whence came our forefathers, reclaiming the land of their birth and consecrating the determination of our people of the sun, declare that the call of our blood is our power, our responsibility, and our inevitable destiny. ... Aztlan belongs to those who plant the seeds, water the fields, and gather the crops and not to the foreign Europeans. ... We are a bronze people with a bronze culture. Before the world, before all of North America, before all our brothers in the bronze continent, we are a nation, we are a union of free pueblos, we are Aztlan. For La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.”
That closing two-sentence motto is chilling to everyone who values equal rights for all. It says: “For The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing.”
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http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=13863
Sure must have been.
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