Obama choses image over substance
I love it when my posts become reality. Yesterday I wrote two – one about La Raza and the other about image vs. substance. While I was writing, Barack Obama was writing my post for today, according to Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times;
Sen. Barack Obama told the nation’s largest Hispanic advocacy group yesterday that he earned their support for his presidential campaign by marching in last year’s May 1 immigrant rallies and challenged them to learn whether others met that standard.
“Find out how many senators appeared before an immigration rally last year. Who was talking the talk, and who walked the walk — because I walked,” Mr. Obama said at the National Council of La Raza’s annual convention in Miami Beach. “I didn’t run away from the issue, and I didn’t just talk about it in front of Latino audiences.”
The Illinois Democrat said the recent Senate immigration debate “was both ugly and racist in a way we haven’t see since the struggle for civil rights.”
Racist in what way, Barack? In a way that we don’t encourage people to break the law? When people who want to live in this country and make a better life for their families here, stand in large groups and wave the flag of another country – the country from which they escaped? The country that repressed them in the first place and made them want to come here? In that way?
And since when does marching with a group of people give you some sort of credibility? Again, Democrats depend on imagery – no substance. Marching in a large group of people doesn’t get you anything except photo ops. In fact, it’s comical that Obama thinks that he has more credibility with latins than his opponents who didn’t walk. I guess we know why he marched with them in the first place, don’t we.
I don’t suppose Obama noticed that denouncing racism to a group that calls themselves The Race is pretty hypocritical.
Almost as bad as Clinton II blaming the poor Bush economy for the venom in the immigration debate;
In remarks during a morning brunch, Mrs. Clinton said she has been trying “to understand where all of the venom and the incredible anxiety came from” in the immigration debate.
“I am very disappointed, and I was really quite offended by the tone of the debate and some of what was said by outside parties who were trying to influence the debate,” she said.
She blamed the tone on what she called a poor economy under President Bush.
“Until recently, I did not hear the kind of insecurity and opposition to bringing immigrants into American society as I hear today,” she said, adding that when her husband was in office, “people were too busy getting a better future for themselves.”Â
You know, the economy that’s been growing at a faster rate than in the 1990s, the economy that has seen the lowest sustained unemployment rate ever in our history of keeping those statistics – as Larry Kudlow calls it “the greatest story never told”. More image over substance.
