Not True! Not True!
...this statement, I mean:
"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. […]"
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I give the election a 2/3's chance that Obama will win given the absolute stupidity of the current Republican administration. Obama could get derailed, but its unlikely.
I am eager to see the two of them debate and contrast their ideas. Not just through their websites, but how they express them. There were times when I wondered if McCain had lost it during the Republican debates: as in his age prevented him from giving anything other than a regurgitated response. Other times, not at all.
Whatever happens, this race is going to have some very positive outcomes. Either candidate is far more competent than Shrubbish. Even if McCain were a drooling idiot. IMO.
I'll copy what I posted at Latina Lista's blog on this:
[T]hat's the typical "according to unnamed sources" article. They cite some polls but don't reference them. It's not the first time and it won't be the last.
Besides, it wouldn't be the first time Nelson Ikeda is accused of distorting the facts:
http://www.narconews.com/Issue26/article567.html
The statement seemed clear enough. After a total of 25 hours of negotiations that framed this past weekend, the Organization of American States – representing 34 governments – released a much-awaited declaration on the crisis in Venezuela. The OAS rejected any solution that is not consistent with the Venezuelan constitution – which went into law with the support of President Hugo Chávez in 1999 only after the entire nation approved the text in a referendum – and “fully support(s) the democratic and constitutional order of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, whose government is headed by Hugo Chávez Frías.”
But the Associated Press (AP)’s Nestor Ikeda, who until yesterday had not written on Venezuela since the coup last April, doesn’t seem to get it. And looking at the coverage AP has provided on Venezuela for the last two weeks, this is hardly surprising; the reports, especially those of a certain writer we will get to in a moment, have been a steady stream of dishonest spin.
Despite a short, uncomplicated, essentially unambiguous declaration (making it something of an anomaly in diplomatic literature), Ikeda apparently felt the need to bend over backwards trying to prove that the OAS had, in fact, “given no direct support to Chavez.” What could have been more direct than the above statement? A photo of the 34 ambassadors wearing red berets shouting “viva la revolución bolivariana?” An international force sent in to squash the opposition? How long can people like Ikeda deny that the opposition has lost the bulk of the international support that it once had?
Ikeda goes on to quote the US Ambassador to the OAS, Roger Noriega, who says “this resolution supports the secretary general’s efforts, unequivocally and energetically,” giving the impression that Noriega was quite pleased with the resolution. Here may lie the key to Ikeda’s bizarre slanting of this important story.
IMHO, I'd take any article authored by Nelson Ikeda with a grain of salt.
Yea, Republicans TOTALLY support helping immigrants out!
We all know that even if McCain claims to support immigrants, once he gets in office (which I seriously doubt he will) he'll toss them aside because he wants conservative support.