It used to be that you could always count on the President of the United States to defend America's reputation at home and abroad. No more. Not under the regime of El Presidente Obama.
Last week, Mexican President Felipe Calderon crossed the border into the United States (legally), came to Washington and told lies about American citizens -- lies intended to paint Americans as racists. Not only did the President do nothing to dispute Calderon's falsehoods, but Democrats in Congress applauded them!
Calderon said Arizona's new immigration law "introduces a terrible idea using racial profiling as a basis for law enforcement." That is untrue. The law forbids racial profiling.
Before his Washington visit, Calderon said of the law, "Criminalizing immigration, which is a social and economic phenomena, this way opens the door to intolerance, hate and discrimination. My government cannot and will not remain indifferent when these kinds of policies go against human rights."
Another lie. The law doesn't criminalize immigration or violate anyone's human rights. Illegally entering the USA is not a human right.
A majority of Americans support Arizona's law. By characterizing the law as racially motivated, Calderon indirectly but unmistakably implied that most Americans are racists. Does the President of the United States object to this? No, he agrees with it!
When a foreign head of state comes to this country and, from the well of the Congress, tells lies to dishonor Americans who only want our government to do what Mexico's government does, which is to enforce its immigration laws, the President ought to stand up and defend his country and her citizens. But as is becoming increasingly clear, that is too much to expect from this President.
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Funny, Calderon doesn't give a damn about these people until they're on the US side of the border.
Posted by: Jefferson ||
05/24/2010 14:53 Comments ||
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Calderon doesn't care about any Mexicans till they are on this side of the border.
Posted by: Frozen Al ||
05/24/2010 15:01 Comments ||
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Racist enablers in chief. Never notice how its the indios y mestizos that compose the millions upon millions 'encouraged' to cross the border and not those of much stronger Spanish blood heritage who compose the ruling caste of Mexico.
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Bur P2K, the oud be...racist! And only we gringo can do such nasty things, and only the white ones apparently.
that the President of the United States would stand for a foreign head of state criticising the lawful soverign exercise of power by the people of the Great State of Arizona, on our soil during as state visit, shows the contempt and lack of manners that Calerdon feels for Bambi.
In a more sane time, Calderon would be asked to GTFO forth with and all those Mexican trucks and products would suddenly get very congested at the border around Otay Mesa and Nogales.
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Nitwits? How about the biggest threat to our Constitution this nation has ever seen? For them, that piece of paper is more an impediment than a source of inspiration.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
05/24/2010 23:48 Comments ||
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Calderon doesn't care about any Mexicans till they are on this side of the border.
I guess they were money sinks to Mexico until they showed up here.
[W]hat if we could just be China for a day?... You know, I mean, where we could actually, you know, authorize the right solutions...and I do think there is a sense of that, on, on everything from the economy to environment. I don't want to be China for a second, OK, I want my democracy to work with the same authority, focus and stick-to-itiveness. But right now we have a system that can only produce suboptimal solutions.
So said Thomas Friedman on "Meet the Press" today. And the funniest part of him saying that wasn't the horrible vision of America as a dictatorship...though it must be hilarious to think of America as a dictatorship, because famous funnyman Woody Allen said it too: ... Nor was it the fact that he said it and at the same time tried to deny that he was saying it with all that "I don't want to be China for a second, OK" business.
No, the funniest part was that he said it right after he deplored the way the political center has been "decimated" in part by the "an Internet where I can create a digital lynch mob against you from the left or right if I don't like where you're going." He's reminding us Internet folk of our lynch-mob powers and then throws us the rope to hang him with that wish that "we could just be China for a day." Come on, everybody, let's destroy Thomas Friedman for saying he knows all the "right solutions" and wishes or would wish if he could get away with it that we could have a dictatorship to get it done.
A love of autocracy often lurks beneath the liberal veneer. There's this idea that the right answers are known and the people are just too deluded and distorted to see what they are and to vote for them. And Friedman openly deplores the internet, which decimates moderation because there are people like me who who persecute elite truthbearers like him. Ooh! It's a lynch mob. Ha. Sorry. I don't want the rope. I just want to laugh at you.
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05/24/2010 11:13 ||
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Sounds like ole Tommy boy is in the market for organs. Kidneys or heart been giving you problems? Relief is just one dissident execution away.
Posted by: ed ||
05/24/2010 11:29 Comments ||
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Not execution. They harvest organs out of dissidents when they are alive with no anesthetic.
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The whole point of the progressive movement is this:
Humankind is perfectible.
If only we stupid, clueless, evil non-progressives would get out of their way, they, the truth-bearers, the enlightened ones, the smart ones, would create heaven on earth. Mama Gaia will be proud of them.
Tom Friedman wants the power to tell the rest of us what to do and how to do it, because he's smart and he has the answers. He's quite certain of that, and if for some reason he doesn't have the answer, his like-minded friends do. That you disagree with him and them means that you are wrong, and you have to get out of his and their way. If you won't do it willingly then you have to be forced.
It's for your own good. Humanity can be perfected.
The progressive movement never quite understands a key point: perfection is in the eye of the beholder. Robespierre, after all, thought that Danton was wrong, and he helped implement a Reign of Terror to convince his countrymen.
How progressive.
That's where autocracy, progressive or not, always leads. Terror. Lenin understood this better than most, and he (and Trotsky, and Stalin) used terror to advance their perfect ideas. As did Pol Pot, Mao, Castro, Napoleon, and others. The wreckers, the kulaks, the jews, the blacks, the revanchists, the infidels, the 'other', must be made to yield. Terrorize them and their families -- hell, terrorize their villages and country.
It's for your own good. Why can't you see that?
Posted by: Steve White ||
05/24/2010 12:42 Comments ||
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Now, now. As a man who knows what's best for everybody, I think Tommy Boy would make a fine zampolit in his imaginary communist fascist democracy. And I'll bet they wouldn't even make him share that big mansion of his with the unwashed proletariat.
His only potential problem may be if that Jew "thing" commies and fascists sometimes have a problem with comes up. And that'a big "if", Tommy Boy...
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Hey Tom could read Mao's Little Red book at the breakfast table and Jewish Lit, but just put a plain dustcover on the Judaica and no one's the wiser.///Sarc off
The two aren't mutually exclusive. I mean, Judaism is pretty doctrinaire in some ways as far "perfecting humanity" I mean, hardcore Jews are all about either your mother, mothers mother mother is this and does this, this, and this,or else. To come to our camp, you have to do XYZ. And its a little heavier on the doctrine than being, oh I don't know, a casual Protestant.
Remember Tariq Ramadan? He's a grandson of Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. This charming organization lives by its credo: "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope."
Ramadan has specialized in what the French writer Caroline Fourest calls "doublespeak": saying emollient things to Western audiences, and rather more inflammatory things when he addresses the Muslim faithful.
The Bush administration denied Ramadan a visa to enter the United States, quite rightly in our opinion. But that ban was recently lifted, and Ramadan has been making the rounds of U.S. college campuses.
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05/24/2010 00:00 ||
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Tape his hate speaches and deport his ass or throwhim in jail.. Why does Obama feel that letting the people that hate and want to kill us into our country is ok??
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
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Because Obama is an arrogant liberal narcissistic fuckwit.
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Told that immolating widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands was a cherished local custom, Napier said Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours. What, we wonder, would Sir Charles have thought of covert apologists for barbarism like Tariq Ramadan or their feminist enablers like Joan Wallach Scott [Princeton resident idiot]?
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