I don’t like McCain but he is far better than these two.

duff65 on June 2, 2008 at 4:20 PM

I don’t like McCain but he is far better less repulsive than these two.

McCain isn’t a good candidate either so let’s not fool ourselves into thinking otherwise. Of the three Democrats running for the Presidency, McCain is simply the least stinky option. America is screwed no matter who wins it simply is slightly less screwed with McCain.

So, to sum up, the Hispanic vote in Florida will not be “influenced much more heavily by its Cuban expatriate community.”

(And lest I be seen as anti-Texan, I lived in 3 different places in Texas in the ’90s.)

Actually, yours has it written in its constitution that it can vote to secede at any time…a fact my Texan acquaintances seldom fail to mention.

Really? I always thought that was just an urban myth.

He gets: liberal white pinheads at universities and coffee shops, students(if they vote), blacks, foreign dictators and terrorists, superdelegates.

He’s a dope. The superdelegates are dopes. Whatever.

I wish my state (Texas) had the option to vote on whether to remain a state or become independent.

Ars Moriendi on June 2, 2008 at 12:55 PM

Actually, yours has it written in its constitution that it can vote to secede at any time…a fact my Texan acquaintances seldom fail to mention.

Ars Moriendi on June 2, 2008 at 12:55 PM

Puerto Rico got “lucky” because they became war booty in the Spanish American war as the US carved out an empire in the late 19th century. I would add that Texas did vote for independence or statehood after the Texas Republic failed. They chose statehood.

omnipotent on June 2, 2008 at 12:44 PM

Oh! I thought Obama was just going to carve up some of the larger states to make the numbers work out! Or maybe carving NYC into its own state so that his pal Bloomberg can be a governor without having to deal with those “clingers” that live in the wilds of NY (other side of the Hudson) ;-O

Seriously though, IMO it is put up or shut up time for the territories. Puerto Rico has been administered by the US since 1900 and its inhabitants have been US citizens since 1917. At some point that relationship needs to EVOLVE. Puerto Rico was unwilling to support naval gunfire exercises yet demands the protection of the United States. They hold American citizenship but also serves as a useful conduit for South American drugs. Puerto Rico is not a colony of the United States and it is time for a change.

It will be interesting to see if the MSM covers the exit polls. Tensions are high in Los Angeles, I do not think politicians like Maxine Waters would be able to carry on the struggle for illegals in the face of exit polls showing latinos coming out for McCain.

highhopes on June 2, 2008 at 12:36 PM

Let’s make them states. That way Obama’s “57 states” gaffe won’t be AS inaccurate.

Snort.

newton on June 2, 2008 at 12:31 PM

Playing devil’s advocate here……

OK so Puerto Ricans don’t want independence but they don’t seem to want statehood either. How long do we continue this commonwealth scheme with Guam, the V.I., and Puerto Rico? This is 2008- the age of empire is over with. Isn’t it time we shed the last vestiges of that era?

A bomb tore the front windows of an Army recruiting office in my PR hometown. This happened while I was still in high school, in the late 80s.

The leader of that group, Filiberto Ojeda Rios, was killed relatively recently in an FBI raid in the island.

The truth of the matter is that were Obama or Clinton up against a white guy the narrative would already be written. But the Democrats have long been making promises to special interests and the primary race has essentially boiled down to a internal debate over whose special interests have priority.

entagor on June 2, 2008 at 12:19 PM

Will it help you to know that only about ten percent of the boricua (Puerto Rican) population in the island support independence, and even less support it by violent means? The Independence Party over there barely registers politically in every four-year election. And the vast majority would never support FALN (“Los Macheteros”).

And you can bet your hard-earned buck that I think their terrorists acts are abominable.

A very useful pardon, like the pardon placed in the NY orthodox Jewish community which helped in Hillary’s Senate election

There is a big difference between Puerto Rican and Mexican. Puerto Ricans are racially mixed, while Mexicans have very little black blood. They have different agendas, although their leftists both enjoy hating the USA.

They both get happy when the US is taken down a peg, and a US President giving a cigar to anti US terrorists is a warm and fuzzy plus

A better gauge would be the South Texas results in that primary back in March. Obama won the big city inner area and the white liberal enclaves in Austin (where Obama’s organization would later prove key in the controversial caucuses), while Hillary won landslides in the predominantly Hispanic border counties.
jon1979 on June 2, 2008 at 11:30 AM

I can concur. Here in the Corpus Christi area, you could see where the two really campaigned, to see which peoples they were targeting.

During her stop here, Hillary chose to have a rally at the Nueces County Fairgrounds, with our local Congresscritter present. The Fairgrounds are located next to Route 77, which goes as far down the Rio Grande Valley to Brownsville and McAllen – in counties with heavy Mexican-American populations. Moreover, Ole’ Bill dined with business leaders at the Solomon Ortiz International Center – the only major gathering place I’ve seen named after a living (and still in office!) Congresscritter.

Where did Obama choose to have his rally? At Corpus Christi’s American Bank Center – a bit more of a drive for many Rio Grande Valley residents to Downtown and the Bay. He only seemed to have focused on the cities, and never on the farmlands.

The difference is clear as day here in South TX.