Summit of the Americas: Obama Rips Romney for Supporting Arizona’s Immigration Law

Weasel Zippers ^ | 4/14/12

[hope]

CARTAGENA, Colombia — President Obama, on a three-day trip to South America, attacked GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney’s stance on immigration reform today, saying his support for Arizona’s tough immigration law is “very troublesome.”

“We now have a Republican nominee who said that the Arizona laws are a model for the country. . . and these are laws that potentially would allow someone to be stopped and picked up and asked where their citizenship papers are based on an assumption,” Obama told Univision during an interview in Cartagena, where the president is attending the Summit of the Americas.

The three-day trip gives the president an opportunity to showcase his interest in the region and court Latino voters back home, whose support will be crucial in the upcoming election. Obama won a majority of the Latino vote in 2008 and his campaign is hoping for similar results come November.

If reelected, Obama vowed to tackle immigration reform.

“I can promise that I will try to do it in the first year of my second term. I want to try this year,” Obama told Univision.

[FlingWingFlyer]

So let me get this straight. The U.S. taxpayers paid for this scumbag to go to a “latino” summit so he could rip his opponent? He may be a messiah to some but to me, Obama sucks!

[AlexW]

“Obama knows no shame. He again travels to a foreign country and critizes his own country.”
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Who says he is criticizing his own country?
We have yet to see any proof that he is really a US citizen.

[goodnesswins]

GEE....this is what COLUMBIA REQUIRES:

Tourist Visas

United States citizens traveling to Colombia as tourists are not required to obtain a visa if they plan to stay for 60 days or less. To enter and leave Colombia within the 60-day period, all you need to present is a valid passport. Occasionally, immigration officials will ask you to present evidence of return or onward travel at certain border patrol stations and airports. All travelers, whether entering by land, sea or air, must enter the country through official border crossings. You may request extensions to the 60-day limit through the Colombian immigration authority at the Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad. Colombia does not charge any entrance fee or tax, but those leaving the country by plane do have to pay an exit tax that’s usually between $50 and $70, depending on the current monetary exchange rates.

Long-term Visas

Colombia offers a total of 17 different types of visas that allow for long term and permanent stays for everyone from international businessmen and journalists to students and volunteers. Some visas also give you the option to become a Colombian citizen in the future. Requirements for each visa vary quite a bit, but in all cases you’ll need at the very least a valid passport, three passport photos, a completed application form and police record that has been translated into Spanish. Other requirements may include signed letters of sponsorship, a copy of your marriage license and a copy of your birth certificate. These visas usually last between one and five years, depending on the type of visa.

Citizenship

Becoming a citizen of Colombia is difficult, time consuming and expensive in some cases. Most foreigners moving to Colombia permanently opt for long-term resident visas instead of citizenship because these visas are relatively easy to obtain and allow you to stay in the country for as long as you like with very few restrictions. Requirements for Colombian citizenship include a whole set of official documents—all of which must be translated into Spanish—detailed information on your financial history and current situation, fluency in Spanish and a knowledge of Colombian history and its constitution.

[raybbr]

Obama is not lying. He’s simply the first president in the history of the U.S. to campaign actively outside the U.S. It’s natural for him to pander to foreigners for votes. He’s never been anything but a campaigner.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Pathetic. Obama has no interest in the presidency, he only cares about himself and his Marxist cause.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Local radio hosts call this “hispandering”.

[Vigilanteman]

Requirements for Colombian citizenship include a whole set of official documents—all of which must be translated into Spanish—detailed information on your financial history and current situation, fluency in Spanish and a knowledge of Colombian history and its constitution.

Change Spanish to English and Colombian to American and you'd have a model law for this country.

[Standing Wolf]

...these are laws that potentially would allow someone to be stopped and picked up and asked where their citizenship papers are based on an assumption...

Awwwww!

[depressed in 06]

...would allow someone to be stopped and picked up and asked where their citizenship papers are based on an assumption,”

Leave it to DumBO to mix up Arizona and Mexico.

[tillacum]

Only democrat presidents and expresidents bad mouth America and American citizens when they are visiting other countries. They drag all their hateful vile words towards us where ever they travel outside America’s borders.

[Goreknowshowtocheat]

Absolutely right, lets vote for Obama.

[ncfool]

They would ask you if pulled over in Columbia. Obummer is the world fool.

[newzjunkey]

Why would he go to Colombia to talk about immigration to the United States? Any self-respecting nation should be insulted.

[ncfool]

They would ask you if pulled over in Columbia. Obummer is the world fool.

[Jeff Chandler]

I heard that Romney put a dog on a car.

[unkus]

Absolutely right, lets vote for Obama.

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In all my posts ‘supporting Romney’, I have been sarcastic.

I can seem to be supporting Romney and people go nuts. I

can make a statement that “Obama is right” when he

criticizes Romney and people go nutts. It’s been amuzing.

[unkus]

I heard that Romney put a dog on a car.

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No, he tied a puppy to the bumper of his campaign bus and drove off.

LOL

[petitfour]

Obama’s Secret Service stiffs some prostitutes, a hotel, and their marriages, and Obama wants to talk about the state of Arizona’s attempt to protect itself from foreign invaders? I wonder what Columbia’s immigration laws are. What are the immigration laws of Venezuela? And so on.

[Diogenesis]

Romney's backstabbing Karma (from 2008, too)
has run over his RINO dogma.

FLASHBACK:

The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++4 to 10 pts
in some polls, days prior to Election 2008.
So rather than helping the GOP, Romney and
TeamROMNEY and the RNME (Republican National Media Establishment)
decided …to attack Gov. Palin to throw Election2008.

Romney, and the Van der Sloot RNME RINOs for Obama in 2008

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

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The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
… aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.

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"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

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"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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[Goreknowshowtocheat]

I thought the purpose of all this anti-romney stuff was to establish that he is the most evil of the bunch.. Since we are down to two choices (both evil, but Romney is worse) then “the lesser of two evils=Obama”). Is my logic out of whack? Of course, I would prefer Newt, but preference at this point is sort of useless.