The great post-partisan uniter at work

Obama: Anti-amnesty Americans are "enemies" of Latinos

"And if Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, we're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us, if they don't see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it's gonna be harder — and that's why I think it's so important that people focus on voting on November 2," he said.

So, is this how "we [come] together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves, and our highest ideals"? Apparently.

Let me just say that I hope that's not how I'd do it...

Epic fail - Geography division

This ought to be unbelievable, but, sadly, isn't. Here we have a Democratic county supervisor in Milwaukee arguing in favor of a boycott of Arizona. (One might think that the county supervisors in Milwaukee might have better things to do with their time, but if you're a liberal, I suppose you have to do things like this for simple ego maintenance reasons.) And she notes that actually, she might be more open-minded about Arizona's actions if the situation were a little bit different.

If this was Texas, which is a state which is directly on the border of Mexico, and they were calling for a measure like this, saying that they had a major issue with undocumented people flooding their borders, I would have to say - I would have to look twice at this. But this is a state that is a ways removed from the border, and, um, it doesn't make sense to me...

There's a little more babbling which is even less coherent, but no stupider. And there's actual footage of this brilliant oratory.



It's possible that, if given an unlabeled map of the United States and asked to write in the place names, I'd get a couple of them switched. I don't think so, but it's possible. And that isn't necessarily a big deal. It's a huge country, and the fact is, there's no particular reason for me to know which one's Kansas and which one's Nebraska, or which of those two is Alabama and which is Mississippi. But even if you were ignorant of Arizona's location a month ago, the level of stupidity required to engage in a debate over this topic, with all of the national coverage and debate which has taken place, without realizing that it shares hundreds of miles of border with Mexico is staggering. This is someone who's too stupid to realize that she's too stupid to be engaged in this discussion.

And she's an elected official...

Given two choices, Obama chooses...neither.

The quality of reasoning which has made itself so evident in our current economic situation was apparently on full display in the President's press conference this afternoon.

"I am the President of the United States," Obama said. "I don't endorse boycotts, or not endorse boycotts. That is up to private groups to decide."

Hmm...

So on the one hand, he doesn't endorse boycotts. But he also doesn't not endorse boycotts.

I've got news for you, Mr. President - that doesn't work. If you "do not endorse" boycotts, then you do "not endorse" boycotts. That's what "don't" means. This isn't one of those cases where you can pretend to triangulate between too outrageous extremes. One either endorses the boycott or one doesn't. There is no third choice.

One could choose between endorsing it and condemning it, of course. There is a third position between those two points, where one did not take a position on it. That, presumably, is the position which he's endeavoring to occupy. But between endorsing it and not endorsing it, well, there's just no room there. It's an either/or proposition. You can't vote present.




"Splunge" - "It's a great idea but possibly not and I'm not being indecisive..."

Is is still a racist law?

Using the standards of the Democratic party and the mainstream press, this story should be headlined

Racist President Calls Out Troops To Enforce Racist Law

But it isn't...

Obama to Deploy 1,200 National Guard Troops to the US-Mexico Border

President Obama has authorized the call-up of 1,200 National Guard troops to the US Mexico border, an administration official confirms, requesting $500 million in supplemental funds.

The enhanced border protection and law enforcement will, “provide intelligence; surveillance and reconnaissance support; intelligence analysis; immediate support to counternarcotics enforcement; and training capacity until Customs and Border Patrol can recruit and train additional officers and agents to serve on the border,” an administration official says.

So after a month and a half of excoriating the people of Arizona as racists for having the temerity to want their public officials enforcing Federal immigration law, the President is going to send troops to the border to ... enforce Federal immigration law.

And somewhere along the line, no doubt, he'll tell us that "I've always said the borders must be protected..." Or, "there are some who say that we cannot protect the borders, but I say..."

What he will not say, under any circumstances, is "I'm sorry that I, and members of my staff, and members of the political party of which I am the de facto head, castigated the people of Arizona for taking reasonable steps to protect themselves and their property."

"Not one of them was a U.S. citizen..."

Context.

Pinal County (Arizona) Sheriff Paul Babeu:

Last month alone, just in one patrol region, we had sixty-four pursuits. That means people who were driving a vehicle, failed to yield, took off like a bat out of hell, running red lights, creating traffic wrecks, numerous people were killed in these wrecks over the last several months, and who are these people? Not one of them was a U.S. citizen.

Do the people who are crying "racism" over the new Arizona law know this? More importantly, would they even care if they did?

The people of the state of Arizona have a right to defend themselves. They're being invaded, and the federal government, which is constitutionally obligated to protect their border, is doing nothing about it. I'm passionately disinterested in hearing Manhattan-Westport-Fairfax County-Orange County liberals decry the "racism" of a people who are under siege and attempting to protect themselves. The idea that they've passed this law because they "hate hispanics" is patent nonsense, and the "racism" argument is the default position of the intellectually vapid and self-satisfied.

A supporter of Arizona (and Federal) law speaks out...

Here's one of those viciously racist Arizonans (a woman who no doubt loathes immigrants and hispanics) who supports that new Arizona immigration law (in which Arizona state officials enforce laws that have been part of the federal law enforcement code for years but the federal government won't enforce) which reminds so many of the high-minded leftists in this country of the Nazis.



God bless you, Gabriella...

Sanctions

And again, the wonderful Michael Ramirez:

Was Joe Wilson right?

Before the speech:

During consideration of the health care reform bill (H.R. 3200), the House Ways & Means Committee rejected an amendment that would have helped ensure illegal aliens would not receive taxpayer-funded health care benefits.

After the speech:

Today, for the first time as far as we know, the administration is backing a provision that would require proof of citizenship before someone could enroll in a plan selected on the exchange.

Here, the administration also concedes that hospitals would be compensated with public funds for the care of undocumented immigrants.

So is it a lie if one says something that one knows isn't true, but then changes one's position after being accused of lying?