Posted on 12/19/2014 7:37:05 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President Barack Obama has broken two barriers: Being the first black president -- and becoming the first Latino president, according to Tom Perez, Obama’s labor secretary. Perez made the comment a day after Obama’s shocking shift to take steps to normalize relations with Cuba and a month after the president’s executive actions on immigration that had widespread appeal among Latinos.
“When I reflect on the breadth and depth of what he has done for Latinos, it really makes him in my mind, and in the minds of so many others, the first Latino president,” Perez said Thursday, according to Politico. “The president gets it” on policies that help Latinos, said Perez, the son of immigrants from the Dominican Republic.
The idea of Obama as the first Latino president is a view not shared by some Latino members of the GOP, including U.S. Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart, R-Florida., who told Politico that the president’s decision to reach a deal with Cuba to normalize relations and eventually ease travel restrictions will turn off some Hispanic voters. Díaz-Balart, a Cuban-American who represents a Miami-based district with a heavily Cuban population, said Latinos won’t like Obama’s secretive approach that led to the game-changing agreement with Cuba or that the deal doesn’t include democratic reforms in Havana.
“There will be a first Latino president, and one of the things that Latinos want -- it’s an American thing, but a Latino thing -- is you keep your word,” Díaz-Balart told Politico. “If George Washington was the president who could not tell a lie, then history will record Obama as the president who could not say the truth.”(continued)
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Here’s 6?
Senator Ted Cruz.
Later in the article.
Obama as the first Latino president??? Okay.......
Remember how the media celebrated homosexual marriage week when Obama stated his evolved opinion on that subject? Newsweek put a picture of Obama in the cover ofnNewsweek with a halo over his head, and a caption reading the first gay president.
So let’s see is we see the media celebrate Cuba recognition week here,............
I was trying to point out the grammar.
I thought Jeb wanted to be the first latino president?
He speaks only Spanish at home, according to an article I posted the other day.
Anyone who considers their ancestry, skin color, sex organs, sexual perversion, political agenda or other personal characteristic more or equally important than their American citizenship and the US Constitution will not be a good president.
We have empirical evidence when we look at the current president and people meeting this description serving in congress, the senate and other government positions.
Dems could promote just about any Latino and the publicity and momentum would be even bigger then Obama.
Pubs will be left holding their private parts wondering what hit them.
C’mon Pubs play the game. Get a Latino Female on the ticket.
You do realize that Ted Cruz is a Latino, right?
Interesting that the only two Democrats on this list both have the surname Castro, eh?
Make that a Lesbian Latino Female or tranny, and that would be the winner............
He could very well be the first Latino president for all anyone knows about the imposter.
I don’t care if he speaks Spanish only in the toilet they will, and he’ll go along with, touting him as latino.
Interesting take, but there the writer errs when he when he states that Susana Martinez is the first Hispanic governor of New Mexico.
Amen. There oughta be a law......
Re: Post 19
Thanks Liz.
Great additions.
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