June 2008 Archives
And while you are there, you may as well keep scrolling down as there are many posts concerning Obama, Race, McCain, and racist signs that once were okay to put up.
``Texas is like our home,'' said Garza, 45, who joined hundreds of Mexicans poring over lists of Texas properties at the four-day event. Garza, who owns manufacturing sites and other land in Mexico, said he and five partners may invest as much as $8 million in Texas. ``We believe there can be some opportunities.''Individuals who empower themselves...
"According to some surveys, the Hispanic vote appears to favor now the Republican candidate John McCain, who has a more favorable position than Obama to legalize millions of undocumented immigrants."However, thus sayeth the facts:
"So far, according to poll after poll after poll on Latino presidential voting preferences, Obama is edging out McCain — in most cases by a lot. […]"
DENVER – In keeping with its commitment to make the 2008 Democratic National Convention the most accessible and technologically-savvy event of its kind, the Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) announced today that Comcast Corporation will produce simultaneous, online streaming coverage of the Convention in Spanish at DemConvention.com and make available a broad range of Convention content through its signature On Demand service. The DNCC also announced that Comcast has been named the Convention’s Official Cable Television and Video-On-Demand (VOD) provider. . .To all those Latino bloggers crying rivers of tears because Obama wasn't reaching out to Latinos . . . I know a pretty good cheese to go with that whine.
“With Spanish as the primary language of approximately 35 million Americans – not to mention the more than 300 million Spanish-speakers outside the United States – offering bilingual coverage of the Convention makes more people feel welcome under the Democratic Party’s ‘big tent’,” said Texas State Senator and Convention Co-Chair Leticia Van de Putte [honest, that's her last name. I'm not making this up]. “As a Texan and a Latina, I’m proud to belong to a party that embraces the Hispanic community.
The latest pride and national bandwagon award goes to Corona and their attempt to alcoholize Latinos.
Right on...Rah-Rah! Corona! Latinos!!! "...que linda la botella." Yeah.
In a recent article and now published online at the web site for CNN, Navarette posits the Republican talking points and goes so far as to say the Senator McCain would make an excellent president. And my not to disagree too strenously with Navarette, but perhaps, he has consumed one too many cups of java. Thus, not to rain on his parade, I will refute his various and sundry statements.
First, Navarette goes on to criticize the many pundits for their suggesting that Latinos would not vote for Senator Barack Obama. Moreover, he at least acknowledges that Latinos favored the Clinton 'brand' for historical reasons. This behavior among Latinos is not new in the least. Furthermore, he pontificates that as the Clinton campaign was running out of gas, Latinos were migrating to the Obama campaign. Not so, of course, if he was willing to acknowledge that the voters in Puerto Rico continued to support Clinton at the same constant and consistent level and this behavior was reaffirmed by the exit polls.
Now that Clinton has conceded the race to Obama, it logically follows that Latinos will overwhelmingly vote for Senator Obama in the General Election in contrast to Senator McCain. Needless to say, the majority of Latinos are affiliated with the Democratic Party and they do so because the Democratic Coalition "delivers" to the Latino Community. However, if Navarette had questioned the validity of "what" and "how much" the Democratic Coalition will deliver to Latinos, he would be making a valid and exemplary case as to his Argumentation, but he isn't and he doesn't, and thusly, falls far short.
"It's a slap in the face," Susie Tompkins Buell, a prominent Clinton backer, said in an interview. "Why would they put somebody that was so clearly ineffective in such a position? It's a message. We get it." She said it was a "calculated decision" by the Obama team to "send a message that she [Clinton] is not being considered for the ticket."
Other Clinton insiders also seethed. "Who can blame Obama for rewarding Patti? He would never be the nominee without her," one person who has worked for both Clintons and remains close to them said. The sentiment reflected what another person in the immediate Clinton orbit described as "shock" that Obama would send such a strong signal that he is not considering Clinton as his runningmate so soon.
...the number of registered Latino Democrats in Florida now exceeds Republican registered Latinos for the first time since the Cuban Revolution. Since Cuban Republicans are the bulwark of the Party’s statewide political clout, this is a potentially major shift that could put Florida in the blue column in presidential elections for years to come.
Very interesting.
Last week, The AP took an unusually strict position against quotation of its work, sending a letter to the Drudge Retort asking it to remove seven items that contained quotations from AP articles ranging from 39 to 79 words.
On Saturday, The AP retreated. Jim Kennedy, vice president and strategy director of The AP, said in an interview that the news organization had decided that its letter to the Drudge Retort was "heavy-handed" and that The AP was going to rethink its policies toward bloggers.
The quick about-face came, he said, because a number of well-known bloggers started criticizing its policy, claiming it would undercut the active discussion of the news that rages on sites, big and small, across the Internet. ...
"We are not trying to sue bloggers," Mr. Kennedy said. "That would be the rough equivalent of suing grandma and the kids for stealing music."
Obama leads McCain among registered voters, 47 to 41 percent, which is outside the poll’s margin of error. In the previous NBC/Journal survey, released in late April, Obama was ahead by three points, 46-43 percent. . .Yes, it's still pretty early in the game, but when it comes to Latinos, I'm not seeing anything here I didn't expect.
In the head-to-head matchup, Obama leads McCain among African Americans (83-7 percent), Hispanics (62-28), women (52-33), Catholics (47-40), independents (41-36) and even blue-collar workers (47-42). Obama is also ahead among those who said they voted for Clinton in the Democratic primaries (61-19).
Emphasis added. "Break the rules"? Where did I read about that before? Ah, yes. Right here.Hi folks. My name is Ed Hale and I am life long Democrat till May 31, 2008. When I saw those 30 people break the rules and make their own, and then to vote to take away 4 of Hillary Clinton's delegates, but worst of all, make the uncommitted go for Obama, that was my last straw. What I saw today was what went on in the USSR (Russia) 30 years ago. The Boss's called the shots, and I decide that I did not want any part of them.They have treated Hillary Clinton worst than I would treat a mad dog. This site is up to get like minded people to join so if they do go ahead and nominate Obama, we will be ready to make sure that he never goes to the White House. If Hillary get the nomination, then I will be leading the charge for her.
The rules are the rules. Like the sword, you live by them and you die by them.Which, of course, makes it kind of funny and sad that this loser and its kind are using the "breaking the rules" argument to try to slam Obama. It was agreed that the Michigan and Florida delegates weren't going to count for anybody, and the Clinton crew didn't have a problem with it until she started falling behind big time and was unable to catch up.
Anyhow, what do Ed and company want?
It is our mission to raise money, promote John McCain. We will set up a "527" to raise money, run TV and radio ads against Obama. The Democrat party has left us out in the cold, so we are going to build a fire that they cannot put out.Ah. The old "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" argument. It didn't work out too well for our foreign policy with the Taliban. Or with our support for the Shah.
You know it's all nonsense. These are the kind of people you don't bother with because you cannot reason with. They cannot see beyond their pain and animosity. The important thing is to keep an eye out for them to prevent them from attracting the ones who can be talked to and reasoned with.
Obama and Hillary had nearly identical positions in almost everything. Hillary and McCain aren't even close. It's those differences that we need to focus on when we talk to others who are considering voting for McCain.
Consider this an open letter. I'm a male, so I can only begin to appreciate your disappointment and frustration. And I understand why, at this stage, you'd rather sit it out in November. I cannot understand for the life of me why you would vote for McCain since most of his positions are 180 degrees from Clinton's. I think that's what they call "cutting your nose to spite your face." Whatever choice you're contemplating, my sincerest plea is this:My friend Roberto (who posts here from time to time), wrote this recently on his blog (go there for the whole piece).Don't do it. Please, don't do it.
I'm bewildered by this attitude that some women may have. Hillary herself doesn't have this attitude...why do you? Did not Hillary endorse Obama? Would Hillary vote for McCain? Just ask yourself WHAT WOULD HILLARY DO???
Maybe these women who share this retarded attitude are voting purely because Hillary IS a woman, and nothing more.
I went to Subway the other day and found it weird that they had no tomatoes. Today I find out the reason why. Hopefully, some nut doesn't blame Latinos who are most likely the ones who pick our fruits and vegetables.I've been telling people for a long while that when Latinos look at Obama and Johnnie Mac, the choice will be so crystal clear that Obama won't have a hard time garnering the lion's share of the Latino vote. Now, Ruben Navarrete, Jr. echoes that point, somewhat. I have to give him some credit because Ruben is the Latino columnist that has elicited the most "shut the f*** up!" reactions from me, almost from day one.
A new Gallup Poll summary of surveys taken in May shows Obama winning 62 percent of Latino voters nationwide, compared with 29 percent for McCain. The pro-Democratic group Democracy Corps compiled surveys from March through May that showed Obama with a 19-point lead among Latinos. And a Los Angeles Times poll last month showed Obama leading McCain by 14 points among Latinos in California.
I'm not surprised. As I have been writing for months, Latinos haven't been voting against Barack Obama as much as they've been voting for Hillary Clinton. Give the senator from New York credit. She took full advantage of Obama's late start in courting Latino voters, and she had the benefit of what remains a popular brand with Latinos: Clinton, Inc.
Emphasis added. Of course, leave it to Ruben to trigger yet another "shut the f*** up!" moment on this one.
Now that the Illinois senator has become the presumptive nominee, and Hillary has suspended her campaign and endorsed him, Latinos really have only two choices -- go with Obama, or vote for John McCain.
Choice No. 2 is not such a bad option. McCain would make an excellent president. And, in fact, I suspect that, when all is said and done, many Latinos -- perhaps as much as 35 percent -- will put their support behind him. Not because they have anything against Obama, but because McCain has -- for more than 15 years and long before the immigration issue became prominent -- had an outstanding record of reaching out to Latino voters, earning as much as 70 percent of the Latino vote in his Senate re-election campaigns in Arizona.
Emphasis added. First, I have to wonder what the heck does Ruben see in McCain to conclude he would make an "excellent presidernt." Perhaps Ruben was really smitten by the U.S. staying 100 years in Iraq. Or about the possibility that McCain will nominate Supreme Court judges that will make it easier to overturn Roe. Or, since he's out in California, the idea of suspending the federal gas tax really appeals to him. Whatever the reason is, we don't know since that's as conclusory a statement as it gets.
Second, in politics as in the stock markets, "past performance is no guarantee of future performance." Besides, if you bother canvassing through the election results in Arizona, which you can find here, you'll find that in McCain's "closest" election, he got about 58% of the vote. And in 2004, he was reelected with neary 77% of the votes. Since Ruben doesn't even mention when McCain got 70% of the Latino vote, we can't tell whether his Latino support is "substantially greater" than the norm (if that happened on the former election) or "somewhat lower" than the average (if it happened on the latter election.)
It doesn't matter how much experience McCain has courting the Latino vote. McCain is stuck with the GOP's position on immigration: enforcement first, and foremost; dehumanization and criminalization of illegal immigrants; and border fences to "keep them out and keep us safe from 'them.'" With a party like that behind him, he won't win too many Latino voters.
So, Ruben, when it comes to how great McCain would be for Latinos, just shut the f*** up, please!
"The symbols are reinforced by the strong composition. The woman and her child appear all the more vulnerable as the only elements of humanity and colour against the advancing wall of shields and boots.Such a potent image leaves very little room for any doubt. In such circumstances do we need to know the details of the dispute to have any doubts that what we are witnessing is wrong?"
I think it is the powerlessness, such as the picture above that vaulted my presence in the blogosphere. Facing and embracing your reality is what conquers the predicament.
For a nation, Obama would be great. But, if you think it will change much on local levels your mistaken. Community volunteering and participation in local politics is what is necessary to bring results down to the streets.
