John McCain Outclassed by Barack Obama in Pandering for the Hispanic Vote

There was a time, perhaps a month or so ago, that if one compared a transcript of McCain’s and Obama’s immigration policy speeches, one would have difficulty discerning the difference between the two. That has, apparently, changed with Obama and McCain’s addressing of the assembly at the La Raza convention last week. If you are unfamiliar with La Raza, they represent one of the largest criminal classes–illegal aliens–in the United States, with the exception of Congress. La Raza is the organization that orchestrated the disruptive marches across the United States for illegal aliens’ rights last year, with the Mexican flag waving hordes, at the expense of the American taxpayers. Yes, your money paid for those marches–they receive more than $10 million per year in government grants. They represent the 12-20 million Hispanic portion of illegal aliens in the United States. An equitable comparison of La Raza’s affiliation to the illegals, would be if the Cosa Nostra had a union and a lobbying arm funded with taxpayer contributions.

McCain has entered an arena in which he is overwhelmingly outclassed, in skills, competing with an Anarchist like Obama regarding illegal immigration. McCain came to the convention clutching the decayed remnants of his failed Kennedy-McCain amnesty bill in one hand, and in the other hand, his rapidly dissipating disposition of Caesar’s Veni, Vidi, Vici approach to the Hispanic vote. The problem McCain found prior, and during the La Raza convention, was that by competing with Obama for any segment of the left is that: if you wrestle with pigs you both get dirty, the difference being, the pig likes it. McCain, by alienating unknown quantities of independents and conservatives wrestling with Obama over immigration, has hopefully become acutely aware and uncomfortable with the dirt that has covered him.

Obama has shown more cards with his courting the Hispanic vote. The jeopardous consequences for either Obama or McCain, are the unknown variables of assuming all Hispanics will vote the same. The first perilous variable is to assume that all Hispanics are in favor of legalizing the ten to twenty million illegals in this country; the variable is to presume that Hispanics, like lemmings, will all be motivated by the same stimulus, and will vote the same ticket depending on promises made to Hispanics on a wholesale level; the third is the unknown position of the large independent voting block and their stance on mass amnesty without security. To believe that Hispanics only care about immigration, rather than possess the intelligence to care about taxes, education, housing, retirement, etc., and will only vote a Democrat and liberal position, is stereotypical and grossly prejudiced on a mass scale.

The gulf between Obama and McCain commenced prior to the convention with Obama’s indignant remarks regarding the American citizenry and their foreign language inadequacies. Obama’s slanderous remarks, “It’s embarrassing when Europeans come over here, they all speak English, they speak French, they speak German. And then we go over to Europe, and all we can say is, merci beaucoup. I don’t understand when people say ‘We want English only.’ Instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English, they’ll learn English, you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish.”

Obama’s boundless arrogance toward American citizens has now been broadcasted beyond the parameters of his gun clinging, praying citizens remarks, and has encompassed anyone deficient in the linguistic skills of Spanish.

This speaks clearly of his ignorance of diplomatic matters altogether. Failing to realize that the world speaks English because it is the official diplomatic language is disgraceful. I am certain that in his current “Grand Tour” of the Middle East and Europe, he has not dignified himself to learn: Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew, French, and German. He will expect to be spoken to and to speak in English. He is scheduled to give a speech in Germany, hoping to ride on the coat tails of a speech made by a fellow democrat, John F. Kennedy. I am certain that the speech will also be… in English. This shows not only Obama’s ignorance, but his bountiful hypocrisy.

During his pandering at the La Raza convention, Obama took an avenue that John McCain could not follow without committing political suicide. He labeled the American Immigration Control and Enforcement Agency (ICE), and any law enforcement organization, as terrorists, if they enforce the laws they are sworn and mandated to uphold. Obama’s comments to the agog gallery about ICE were, “When communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids, when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when people are detained without access to legal counsel, when all that is happening, the system just isn’t working, and we need to change it.” Obama’s alleged intelligence continues to remain in hibernation, for by labeling someone, or an organization, as terrorists, they are being equated to the 9/11 hijackers; they are being equated to the Taliban; they are being equated with Al Quada; they are being equated with the insurgents who plant the road side bombs that kill this country’s troops.

After Obama’s speech, Los Angeles’ Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told the crowd that 12 million illegal immigrants can be brought out of the shadows and into the light and onto the tax rolls, but only if Barack Obama is elected. If the 12 million illegals are brought out, then perhaps another 12 million can skulk into the shadows, and be brought out at some future point in time, and so on and so on.

John McCain tried defending his immigration policies against Obama, but Obama had drawn a line in the sand that McCain, even with his farcical immigration history, could not cross. McCain anemically asserted that Obama had voted for amendments that would have killed the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill. In one heated exchange with an audience member, McCain was asked if he would make immigration reform a top priority as president and provide a pathway to citizenship for the 12 million undocumented workers living illegally in the U.S. as part of a single immigration bill. McCain retorted, “When it comes to immigration, it’s my top priority today and it will be my top priority tomorrow.” He continued with clarification, and not what this audience wanted to hear, that border enforcement should come first before addressing amnesty for the illegals. He continued, “One single, comprehensive bill, but first we have to assure the American people that the borders are secure, and if politicians fail to do that, then we don’t pass the legislation.” This was the lesson McCain learned during the stunning grassroots rebellion to the Kennedy-McCain amnesty plan.

In reply to a statement, concerning ICE and their raids on illegals (whom Obama previously labeled as terrorists), that the US should stop the militarization of its border, McCain stated, “The United States has to have secure borders sir, and that’s necessary, even if you disagree.”

McCain demonstrated how outclassed he was by Obama with this lawless crowd–but, hopefully it will cause him to abandon his barren attempts for their embrace with its exorbitant cost to his campaign.

Be not fooled as to what Obama, his campaign, the media, or his minions choose to label him as. He is not a progressive. He is the cold, hard personification of socialism combined with a healthy mix of anarchism . Neither Obama, nor his sycophants, believe in the fundamentals upon which this country was founded. Obama, given his druthers, would form a fundamentally different foundation than what this country currently rests upon. Obama is a gimmick created by the left, and the media. The last time this country elected a gimmick as Commander in Chief, it elected Jimmy Carter (with his aw shucks, country boy buffoonery) with the promise of completely reorganizing the government, or as Obama calls it now–”change”. This country should still be acutely aware of the condition in which this country was left by Carter and his change, when Reagan won the 1980 election in an unprecedented drubbing of Carter by a margin of 489-49 electoral votes.

It is marginal, at best, that McCain has moved away from his stance on immigration, but rather Obama has moved markedly to the left to create the recent chasm. McCain, being the military man he is, it would be best to heed the advice of Sun Tzu’s rules of battle, “if weaker numerically, be capable of withdrawing.” McCain should withdraw from his divisive immigration stance while he is capable. Obama has serendipitously dropped into McCain’s lap the ammunition to withdraw, with credibility, and launch a blistering counter attack. McCain cannot compete with the benchmarks Obama has set by calling ICE a terrorist organization and chiding the nation for not learning to speak Spanish. The voters who will listen and agree with that rhetoric, are unattainable for a conservative, or a patriot for that matter. McCain needs to abandon his unpopular and misguided immigration policies so as not to continue to alienate an unknown quantity of the conservative base, and an unknown quantity of independents. His first step would be to announce a new direction that can be reconciled with what the majority of the American citizens expect from an immigration policy. Then attack Obama’s anarchical position. Then, to show that he is serious, he needs to press the support of Jerry Perenchio and Juan Hernandez from his campaign staff. Although firing them would be the prudent thing to do, at this point that would more than likely alienate some Hispanic voters. Perenchio and Hernandez are as radical on immigration as La Raza and have no value to McCain, or any other conservative, but if they are amendable, could be of valuable service.

Listen not to your polls and staff, McCain, but to the many millions of American citizens who flooded the congressional phone lines that killed your immigration bill.

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