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For all practical purposes, Obama’s proposed executive order effectively rescinds rights the Supreme Court has extended to over half the people in America.
Looking strictly at numbers (rather than degrees of evil), that’s far more than the proportion of Americans FDR disenfranchised when he interned Japanese Americans.
Obama’s proposed EO disenfranchises a far greater proportion of Americans than were cruelly and wholly disenfracnhised under slavery.
In terms of sheer proportion of the population of America disenfranchised by their Presidents, our nation last saw so many robbed of their freedoms over the decades during which the American army largely exterminated the Native Americans.
What a cruel and bitter joke identity politics has played upon us all. America’s first person of color in the Oval Office is ready to rob a greater part of our neighbors of their rights than at any time since the Great White Fathers in their White House made war upon the First Peoples.
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Bastard.
What I don’t see being discussed is the bills preventing LEGAL immigrants from using the ‘system’.
“CLARISSA MARTINEZ DE CASTRO: Well, we—granted, we understand that the fight over healthcare is very difficult. We also believe that one of the purposes should be to remove the structural barriers to those people who are having a hard time either obtaining healthcare or obtaining quality healthcare. In the case of the Latino community, we have one of the largest uninsured populations. And we feel that there was a real opportunity here to right a wrong that was done in the past, where we started treating legal immigrants and US citizens as if they were different classes of people. There was a real opportunity to do that. We know that many folks try to manipulate the immigration issue to block healthcare reform. This is a recurring problem and, there again, one of the reasons why we need to do immigration reform.”
And if immigration reform is taken up -and tomorrow should be a mass march about immigration reform- how are they going to address healthcare for all those people in an immigration reform bill?
Now you are there – you are asserting the same things that the teapartiers are asserting – Obama is as bad or even worse than Hitler.
Is this your best argument? Pathetic foolishness – wake up!
“Obama is as bad or even worse than Hitler. “; nonsense, no one here is comparing Obama to Hitler at all. But ‘bad’; yes, especially in view of the political gravitas he came into office with.
Boy You must have been dead or not born yet if You missed G. W. Bush.
He revoked more rights of more AMERICANS than Obama ever could.
Oh! But we forget that to make pathetic polital points.
That M. D. after Your name sure doesn’t mean You have alot of smarts, and a very poor outlook to what America should be.
Thus far, Obama has been continuing many, if not most of Bush’s policies, which is just as bad. One doesn’t have to have missed G. W. Bush to realize that. Also, since G. W. Bush and the the Republicans aren’t in office any longer, we can no longer place the blame on them for what’s going on, especially since the Democrats have a long history of enabling the Republicans by going lock-step in them in pretty much everything under the sun.
Obama refused to release the pictures depicting U. S. torture of detainees at Gitmo, despite a World Court order to do so, plus he’s not rescinded NAFTA or CAFTA. Obama’s war votes, his votes for the FISA Bill, even after having gone on record as being ant antri-war candidate and opposing the FISA Bill, not to mention his rather shady dealings with Tony Rezko should’ve sounded an alarm. It was clear which way the wind was blowing.