Posted on 05/16/2006 8:18:47 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
I've watched the debate over immigration with some interest. When I heard President Bush was going to address the nation, I hoped he would be able to bridge some differences, or at least take some steps to do that.
Sadly, from what I've seen from some, not all, on FR and TV and talk radio is a lot more anger from people who continue to see the President as the enemy of America.
He's been honest and straightforward about his position on immigration: he's wanted a guest worker program for a long time. The administration has apparently sent back 6,000,000 illegals in the past five years and increased by 66% the funding for the border--or something like that, I forget the details.
He has been stellar in the War on Terror and tax cuts. We've not be re-attacked in five years and the economy is by any reasonable measure BOOMING.
I can't understand why so many see him as an enemy to the state.
The 11,000,000 illegals didn't all come in "under his watch". He wants them to earn citizenship, and he has pledged to double border agents and funding by the end of 2008.
This man is America's enemy?
I was sad to hear a conservative pundit gripe "this is too little too late" last night. So what is the choice? Vote Democrat?? Vote third party? You may as well vote Democrat, because that is what will happen.
Sorry, I refuse to see George Bush as the enemy. That title is reserved for Democrats in the world of politics.
Contrary to claims the administration's investigation and arrests of employers hiring illegals is down from the Clinton administration, this table tells a different story. Credit RedBloodedAmerican for finding this:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1632888/posts?page=187#187
By 2004, the annual inflow of foreign-born persons was down 24% from its all-time high in 2000, according to the Pew Hispanic Center analysis of multiple datasets collected by the Census Bureau and other government agencies.
http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=53
Note that I don't think anyone is claiming that nothing should be done, but the hysterics claiming that nothing is being done couldn't be more wrong.
Fact sheet:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1633068/posts
I would hate to be President. Very lonely.
I'm not trying to start a flame war or gripe session. I just had to get this off my chest.
I don't see him as the enemy either. Only hysterics and shysters do.
I see him as a very wise, compassionate man and I am thankful to have him as my president.
I'm tired of folks picking on FDR over Yalta too dammit..lol
You are correct.
The job gets even lonelier when the prexy forgets who elected him.
Hello - I don't see President Bush as the enemy. I do believe he is mistaken in his position concerning immigration, and it is a serious mistake. I can't support that position as currently constituted.
Then he shouldn't ACT, like the ENEMY!
I want him to throw out all the illegals after my driveway gets paved.
I never think of President Bush as an enemy. I disagree with him strongly on issues of immigration and spending, but he is NOT the villain that some disgruntled conservatives make him out to be. There is too much vitriol from some people, the kind of vitriol that should be reserved only for people like Ted Kennedy and the Clintons.
Thanks for the post. I was thinking I was the only around this db who was thinking similarly to what you wrote.</p>
And apparently he thinks the base voted for him because of that proposal, when they voted for him despite it - we voted for him primarily because of his stance on the WOT and because of who his opponent was.
And since the base grumbled but went along with his education proposals, his spending and his Medicare prescription benefit, none of which were remotely conservative in nature, I guess his advisors thought the base would go along again yet again with his guest worker plan. But they were dead wrong.
He had one chance to heal the pending rift in the GOP. And he blew that chance last night, IMO. It doesn't make him the enemy. But Bush has made himself an albatross on GOP House members in the 2006 elections. Now, as Shermy noted yesterday, GOP House members who wish to be re-elected will only do such by distancing themselves from Bush.
Bush is not the enemy, altho he does seem to be on the side of Mexico instead of his own country. Mexico is not considered our enemy, but by the way the Mexican govt aids and abets it's citizenry in invading our country, it may not be a stretch to consider them one.
Yeah, well Teddy Roosevelt was an enviro-whacko, blowhard. There I said it.
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