One of the strangest things of this strange campaign is how all the politically-correct chickens are coming home to roost atop Sen. Clinton, and in the process revealing much about the elite liberal mindset. Even the famed Clinton racial fides is now being questioned, as she resorts, albeit in convoluted similes to Martin Luther King, to playing the race competency card only to get slapped back over the head with it by the identity politics of Sen. Obama.
For years the Clintons have pandered to the National Council of La Raza; now an ad, in Spanish no less!, is accusing her of all sorts of illiberal things in Nevada. It is almost as if an entirely new generation has tragically forgotten that angry, finger-pointing Bill was once our first "black" president, and won "access" for poorer voters through his "motor-voter" legislation, and helped keep our borders open by suggesting anyone who objected was less than liberal.
But as Bill pointed out, the real sin was that Obama did not, as Bill supposedly magnanimously had done in 1988, "wait" his turn.
Translated that means that the Clinton hierarchy was to get a total of 16 years, and then, and only then, could others in line have their day.
Such a sense of entitlement and maternalism was bound to turn nuclear when an unapproved minority candidate decided to run, especially an Obama with far greater wit, savvy, and rhetorical skills than Hillary. If it is a question of winning only by demonizing Obama as the minority candidate with pizzazz but not the acumen of a sober and judicious and experienced pro like Hillary, then we know what's coming though done artfully through surrogates like successful black executives, and through properly tasteful off-the-record asides or lip-biting metaphors.
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Keep believing that troll. Just like you keep believing in your death and moon worshiping cult.
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I think Justice forgot the /sarcasm quotes because he can't possibly be serious. If he is a serious Muslim I'd love to have a question answered.
What about the fact Obama goes to a Christian Church. Does that make him an apostate? How would the Muslim world react if they believed he was a Muslim and then found he was not or had reverted?
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You're not on message there, JUSTICE. You're supposed to make us believe you want peace even though we know that you really want to slit our throats. You're supposed to make us believe you are a religious, spiritual individual when we know that you are really just another bloodthirsty politician. How can you get away with that? Whatever happened to taqiyya? Why, we might actually wake up and give you the whupping you deserve.
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FOX NEWS > CAL THOMAS - The problem wid the GOP going into is that it is now TRI-POLAR with a NATIONAL SECURITY WING, a SOCIAL CONSERVATISM WING, and a RELIGIOUS CONSERVATISM WING, all three of which are curr debating the contempor merits of REAGANISM for the Party and USA.
With the war in Iraq politically on the backburner, illegal immigration is heating up as a campaign issue. The public wants action, and the candidates are scrambling to react.
Sen. Hillary Clinton's sure nomination was first questioned when she flubbed an easy debate question about driver's licenses for illegal aliens.
Sen. John McCain's recovery took off when he backed away from his support of immigration reform that did not first ensure the closure of the border.
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani is no longer for "sanctuary cities" that shield illegal aliens from arrest. Like former Gov. Mike Huckabee, he's now a born-again opponent of illegal immigration.
Former Gov. Mitt Romney assures us that some illegal aliens can be deported within 90 days after he's elected.
Sen. Barack Obama may talk of "change," but his relative fuzziness about illegal immigration can't last forever, and at some point he will have to offer more specific proposals.
Some time ago, supporters of open borders lost the debate. The majority of Americans want them closed now! They ignore the tired slurs like "anti-immigrant," "racist," "protectionist" and "nativist." And noisy May Day parades with Mexican flags and heated rhetoric from the National Council of La Raza ("The Race") only turn more people off.
It doesn't do any good, either, for a Mexico City functionary to cry about how mean we are to want a secure border with Mexico. Most Americans also tuned that out long ago.
They know instead that Mexico cares mostly about sending north those it won't or can't feed and house so it can skim off from them billions in remittances once they arrive in the United States.
Mexico City, of course, could reform the country's laws and economy whenever it wants. But it changes only enough to draw in tourists or Americans looking to buy vacation homes, not to better the lives of millions of its mestizo poor in the heartland.
The spin masters may think illegal immigration is an issue that pits conservative Republicans against liberal Democrats. But it doesn't always.
Nowadays, worry about illegal immigration is just as likely to mean that African-Americans are terrified of racist alien gangs in Los Angeles. Asian-Americans are frustrated that their relatives with college degrees wait years to emigrate legally, while thousands without high-school diplomas to the south simply break the law to enter the United States.
And many Mexican-Americans are probably tired of being expected to defend the indefensible of foreign nationals breaking immigration laws simply because they may share an ethnic heritage with illegal aliens.
To the extent Democratic candidates ignore illegal immigration, or demonize those who worry over hundreds of thousands of new illegal aliens each year, or talk of guest workers and amnesty before they mention closing the borders, it is a losing issue that could alienate millions of voters.
Democratic candidates can't really claim that redneck racists are rushing to the border to clash with poor campesinos just crossing to better their lives, because many poor Democrats also resent how illegal labor drives down their own wages. It is mostly the American poor and middle class who worry about the sudden influx of thousands who don't speak English and often need public assistance.
But the Republican candidates have to watch it, too. If blanket amnesty is a losing issue, so also is mass deportation the practicality and morality of which are rarely considered by those rightly calling for an end to illegal immigration. Busing every illegal alien back to Mexico right now might resemble the past messy partition of India and Pakistan, and reopen the issue in a way that Democrats can legitimately exploit.
What then might an astute candidate advocate?
Close the border now through fencing, more agents, employer sanctions, enforcement of the law and verifiable identification. Restore faith in the melting pot by insisting that new legal arrivals learn English and the customs and protocols of the United States.
Explain to the Mexican and Central American governments that using the United States to avoid addressing internal problems while making easy dollars off the backs of their own expatriate laborers is over.
Finally, deport aliens who have broken the law, are not working or have just arrived. Some illegal aliens will not like the new atmosphere of tough enforcement and will voluntarily go back home. Others may have criminal records or no history of employment and should leave as well.
But many millions of law-abiding, employed illegal aliens of long residence will wish to stay. We should allow these to remain in the United States while they apply for citizenship if they are willing to learn promptly our language and customs.
Republican candidates must risk angering their base by ruling out mass deportation. Democrats should support closing the border tightly and quickly and not cave in to open-borders pressure groups.
Making these tough choices now is what most voters want. The candidates of both parties in the next few months will either adjust accordingly or lose elections.
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McCain "backed away from his support of immigration reform that did not first ensure the closure of the border"? I couldn't find it in this news article, filmed on 14 Jan 2008:
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No kidding Spook. Thompson is almost invisible and only a win in SC will force the press to say something about him. I fear the Republican party will be the RINO party for the next election cycle.
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Republican candidates must risk angering their base by ruling out mass deportation.
Exactly which viable candidate is advocating mass deportation? Answer: None. Even Tancredo repeatedly denounced this silly false choice scenario. Furthermore, the assertion that the Republican base is in favor of such a notion is, in itself, an obvious straw-man argument. Morality aside, the practicality aspect of bulk extradition renders it impossible. However, if you want to isolate the real amnesty provisions in any future legislation it will be how those convicted of identity theft or document forgery will be treated.
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This is the only way the Pubs can capture WH. And only Fred and Tancredo and Hunter have been solid on this issue. Romney and Huckleberry are only spouting what they hear as they travel around. However, they don't mean it. McCain still insists he's correct on the open borders issue. Why do Arizonans allow 2 US Senators to directly contradict their will ? Throw them out. Arizona, like California, is in dire straits due to illegal invasion. Their hospitals are going broke and closing. Schools are being over run. Nevada schools are being over run. If you want to see what happens after 30 years of taxpayers supporting illegals, look at California. Has over $40 billion in bonded borrowing. Runs $14 billion debt each year in operating costs. LA county in 80's had something like 86 emergency rooms available. It has 28 now. Hospitals can't operate by giving away services for free continually. Schools constantly are short of funds(supposedly), with LAUSD completely disfunctional and some districts run so badly that the state has had to come in and take over.
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Tell me about, Woozle. I live it every day and you are exactly right.
If Republicans nominate McCain they deserve to lose the White House. I will NOT, under any circumstances, vote for McCain. You can talk about security and the WOT all you want. I don't feel secure with that border wide open and right now that's what it is. What good does it do to win the WOT if we're sold out to China, overrun by Mexicans and spending all our money on oil?
McCain doesn't understand the WOT anyway. He was one of the first to jump on board when Clinton bombed the Serbians who have been fighting the WOT for centuries.
I don't trust McCain. I don't believe a word he says because I've been watching him long enough and his actions speak louder than his words. He has sold his soul to people who do not have my best interests at heart. Just like the Bushes. Just like the Clintons. Just like the Kennedys. I'd rather suffer through four years with Obama in the White House. Maybe after that this country will be ready for a true conservative and a true patriot.
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Just like the Kennedys. I'd rather suffer through four years with Obama in the White House. Maybe after that this country will be ready for a true conservative and a true patriot.
If we haven't totally dismantled our military, enabled nuclear Iran, set up the Taliban in power in Pakistan (openly) and given away any remaining military technologies to China by then.
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Come to California, lotp. Visit our schools and our hospital emergency rooms. Have lunch at a Jack in the Box or McDonalds. Even in the nicest restaurants you find that all of the busboys and kitchen help are from Mexico. The maids in your hotel will be from Mexico. Drive by a construction site and listen to the ranchero music. This is not hyperbole. These are things that I see every day.
In my first job as a teenager I was a busboy but white boys need not apply these days. My wife's first job as a college student was as a maid in a hotel but white girls need not apply these days. Even in the nicest neighborhoods, check out all the guys with leaf blowers. When I was a kid we mowed our own lawns and swept our own driveways. Not anymore. American boys on bicycles used to deliver the newspapers. These days it's a guy named Jose in a pickup truck.
Do NOT tell my I'm a racist either. I went to school with Mexican-Americans. I was friends with them. I hung out with them. Now I work with them every day. But they are US citizens. The people I'm talking about are not. The people I'm talking about are citizens of Mexico who broke the law to get here. They are not interested in assimilating. They do not respect our culture. They will not learn English.
Bit by bit we are losing this country with a so called conservative at the helm.
I will ask again: What good does it do to win the WOT if we forfeit our sovereignty to Mexico?
Then go to Costco, WalMart, or even Macys or Nordstroms and try to find a pair of shoes or a shirt that isn't made in China. Hell, they're even selling surfboards that were made in China at Costco. It's an abomination. The Chicoms don't need our military secrets because they already have our money.
As for Iran and Pakistan, I don't see Bush doing much about them either. There may be things going on behinds the scenes of which I am not aware but the overall outcome doesn't seem to be in our favor these days.
Yeah, Kennedy was wrong when he called Iraq a quagmire. The real quagmire is Afghanistan. There is an old saying about fighting an insurgency like we have in Afghanistan: "If you're not winning, you're losing." We are not winning. If we were the insurgency would have ended years ago. We will never win unless we take it to Pakistan. Obama has said that he would do that. Fred Thompson might. I wish he would get the chance but I'm losing hope. I have no idea what McCain would do and I wouldn't believe him if he told us.
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I disagree Depotguy. I'm in favor of the silly notion. We could deport millions. Probably not 10-12 million in one yr but incrementally over time as infrastructure in ICE and other agencies develop along w/other means at coercing self-deportation. It would be messy, and all the pc rhetoric from the leftards about "brown-shirts" sweeping up hard working illegals and their anchor babies in the dead of night would be nauseating to those of us who see the big picure of what national sovereingty really means - but it can be done. Many in our country & especially the political pukes in congress lack the will - pure and simple. The left wants the future shamnesty illegal vote based on future handouts from our tax $$$ and the big-biz rinos want the cheap non-union labor. There is nothing immoral about re-patriating illegal aliens to their country of origin - that's what were supposed to do according to our own damn laws. Our politicos are playing both sides of the fence (no pun intended). I don't trust McCain on this issue one bit. He has enough of a questionable voting record on other non-immigration issuse as it is.
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Many illegals will self-deport if Real ID is implemented and they can't work or get benefits. There is also a new law proposed by a Republican congressman to allow employers to fire them if their English isn't up to par to do the job without penalizing employers with additional unemployment taxes for doing so. And if they required deported families to take their anchor babies with them, giving social services and health care to citizens only, they would have no incentive to come here.
I'VE had a huge response to Tuesday's column about The New York Times' obscene bid to smear veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan as mad killers. Countless readers seem to be wondering: Why did the paper do it?
Well, in the Middle Ages, lepers had to carry bells on pain of death to warn the uninfected they were coming. One suspects that the Times would like our military veterans to do the same.
The purpose of Sunday's instantly notorious feature "alerting" the American people that our Iraq and Afghanistan vets are all potential murderers when they move in next door was to mark those defenders of freedom as "unclean" - as the new lepers who can't be trusted amid uninfected Americans. . . .
Go read the rest of it--it's "fire for effect" time.
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To a darkly humorous degree, all this reflects the Freudian terrors leftists feel when confronted with men who don't have concave chests.
Ka-boom.
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The "new" lepers? I thought treating our veterans as such has been en vogue on the left for the past 40 years.
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I think we need a contest to come up with a descriptive term along the lines of racist, sexist, or homophobic when people display an irrational guttural hatred of our folks in uniform. Other than the term Democrat, because that would be redundant. A new 'ist' term to be more specific.
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#3 I think we need a contest to come up with a descriptive term along the lines of racist, sexist, or homophobic when people display an irrational guttural hatred of our folks in uniform. Other than the term Democrat, because that would be redundant. A new 'ist' term to be more specific.
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You have to read IowaHawks piece today about media vets. Media Vets
Unrelated incidents, or mounting evidence of that America's newsrooms have become a breeding ground for murderous, drunk, gun-wielding child molesters? Answers are elusive, but the ever-increasing toll of violent crimes committed by journalists has led some experts to warn that without programs for intensive mental health care, the nation faces a potential bloodbath at the hands of psychopathic media vets.
LOL! These reporters have been dishing it out for years, I hope they are ready to take it because there is no doubt in my mind it is going to come their way.
Personally, my take on it is that the reporters are jealous. They used to think themselves the tough cool guys, then the studly vets came home. Rather than admire and thank the vets, like most secure American males are happy to do, these reporters see them, then look in the mirror and realize that they are everything they are not.
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Why is the Post trying to ruin the street cred of veterans?
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One of the "experts" consulted by the Slimes was none other than Robert J. Lifton, a psychiatrist and hard-left fossil who helped create the "psycho-vet" image of Vietnam veterans in the 60s.
He went on to play a leading role in the media-left's successful campaign to villify Vietnam veterans in the 1970s.
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Vietnam vets should not let this crap happen again.
QUETTA, Pakistan - There is a crisis of crises facing Pakistan. While the political crisis centering on President Pervez Musharraf and the future of general elections scheduled for February 18 dominate the headlines, this country of 160-plus million people faces a tangle of escalating problems, extending from energy shortages to soaring wheat prices to a cotton industry facing meltdown.
Not least, there is a crisis of confidence among foreign investors and a leadership crisis among political activists after the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on December 27.
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TOPIX > TALIBAN CIVIL WAR IN PAKISTAN? The Talibs recent surge and capture of Paki military forts.
Also from TOPIX > THE NEW WORLD ORDER, IRAN, AND THE DECLINE OF AMERICA. Post-NIE finds the US struggling - can US power singularly match its newfound responsibilities vv global empire + nuclear Islamism, or will the US fail???
Compare wid RIAN > ISRAEL, RUSSIA, AND IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM.
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