Posted by
Former Democrat on Sunday, October 05, 2008 4:19:11 PM
From
American Thinker:
Obama campaign stoking racial hatred
What
follows is definitive proof that much of America is poised to elect a
divisive, juvenile, and deceitful candidate for president. In the
Friday, Sept. 19 edition of the Wall Street Journal Rush Limbaugh exposes
a frightening example of the Obama campaign's willingness to stoke
racial antagonisms and treat Hispanic voters like dupes in the process.
Rush
informs us in his essay that the Obama campaign has been circulating a
commercial on Spanish-language television that includes the following
message to Hispanic voters:
"They want us to forget the insults we've put up with . . . the intolerance . . . they made us feel marginalized in this country we love so much."
Immediately after this wonderful attempt to create racial unity the Obama commercial highlights two quotations from Rush:
"... stupid and unskilled Mexicans. . ."
"You shut your mouth or you get out!"
It
turns out however that both of these quotations were taken deceitfully
out of context. In the first quotation, Rush was mocking, back in
1993, the arguments against NAFTA. Rush was assuming the
collective voice of the anti-NAFTA crowd and showing how many of their
arguments were, in Rush's words, "demeaning workers, particularly
low-skilled workers."
In
the second quotation, Rush was criticizing the Mexican government's
double standard concerning their border control policies: extreme
restrictions and controls on their southern border with Guatemala but
pushing an open borders policy with their northern neighbor America.
In short, Rush said, from the Mexican government's perspective if
you're a foreigner in Mexico and you want Bill of Rights style freedoms
"you shut your mouth or get out!"
To
pull off such a vindictive and adolescent fraud like this the Obama
campaign had to assume that the "typical" Hispanic voter couldn't
reason or think critically. If anything is "typical" here it is that
"Mr. Unity" and his followers are as contemptuous of the common working
man and woman as all elites have been, past and present.