McCain tells “The Race” border security first, & it’s called pandering.

Actually, I called it ‘bullsh*t’. Nobody believes he meant it. It was the same as his non support of drilling: let the states to decide on Florida and California coast; it falls apart, it’s no skin off him. His actual record of voting on ANWR tells you how he really feels about drilling.
So, for the last several weeks, he’s been butt kissing every latino group he can talking immigration reform, despite the crushing defeat his nasty little late night screw job bill was dealt last year. People start getting antsy. Fuel prices and the economy is what is agitating the public right now, and he’s still on immigration reform. Also, why does he keep meeting with a racist group like La Raza? So, he makes a speech and tells them ‘enforcement first.’ What does that mean? It means ‘Let me get in office first, then I can do whatever I want.’ Like the dog on the leash told his master, ‘Cut me some slack’. I’ll believe McCain on ‘Borders first’ when he fires Juan Hernandez and he stops talking to La Raza period.

As far as the NAACP goes, it may not be a racist group, but it has a lot of nasty people in it who make it sound like one.

To The Race Card: I think that Ronald Reagan would tell you to vote for McCain; certainly Nancy Reagan would tell you to vote for McCain. May I remind you that when Ronald Reagan ran for President in 1980, it was 12 years after he was a serious candidate for President in 1968 and 4 years after he nearly dislodged a sitting GOP President in 1976. And before Reagan ever ran for President, he out-debated Robert Kennedy. There is NO ONE in sight that would be the next Ronald Reagan. Not only would know who that person is by now, he would be powerful force in politics now. So by hanging back in 2008 for the sake of something you have not through, you effectively aid and abet the election of a hard left wing Democrat in Obama who really is not qualified to be Commander in Chief and who will be making critical decisions in foreign policy and nominating left wing judges to the federal bench. I have sons in the military, and from my perspective, a vote for McCain is a must.

I’m going to look ahead to the next Republican shining star.

jgapinoy on July 16, 2008 at 2:43 PM

Not one fact is a vast departure from your described “lack of footnotes.” He gave opinion, not facts.

Good Sir, please give me wide berth when you deign to proffer such grandiose displays of stupidity.

I firmly believe the GOP’s best positioned on questions of race and opportunity.

See also, “Why Blacks (and Leftists) Don’t Care About Civil Rights”:

http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/why-blacks-and-leftists-dont-care-about.html

lying is not an asset when we have truth on our side

What the hell are you talking about? Lying? I’m stating my opinion based on my observation of the NAACP over recent years. Why would I lie about that? Do you suspect I secretly love the NAACP?

You want data and facts? Do you think I exist to trawl the net in your service? Just spend a few bloody minutes thinking for yourself about the ‘cream’ of the NAACP and what they stand for. I’m pretty sure most people know what I’m talking about.

Personally I don’t give a damn about the NAACP or the gullible neanderthals that support it. They can flush themselves down the crapper for all I care. All I care about is ensuring they never get hold of any of the reins of power – even indirectly via an Obama presidency.

TheRaceCard

I don’t think the normal course of dialog has to be bogged down with a truckload of footnotes. I certainly don’t think a lack of footnotes constitutes lying.

Check out their roster and critique those involved. Much like the ACLU, it has rotted from within and is now a festering petri-dish for the ‘negro grievance culture’ – which gets pretty darned hateful at times.

LimeyGeek on July 16, 2008 at 1:35 PM

You have not provided any data or facts. Your opinion is interesting but not helpful. If you are able to meet this simple standard, please remember to source your info.

I feel your frustration. But lying is not an asset when we have truth on our side. “Lying” might be a strong word, but I give equally negative credence to the concept of lying by omission.

It will happen when the Demos think that they don’t need the black vote anymore.

Hispandering…Negroveling

McCain tells “The Race” border security first, & it’s called pandering.
McCain lectures a liberal group about conservative principles, & it’s called groveling.
MDS.

I would agree with that.

It’s a group of willfully ignorant people, who push long discredited conspiracy theories and other idiotic ideas that continually harm the very people they purport to be concerned about.

Black Americans would be far better off if the NAACP never existed. What was once a positive thinking organization, has devolved into a net negative.

The NAACP is not a hate group. You cannot point to any facts or gathered data which would prove such a point

Check out their roster and critique those involved. Much like the ACLU, it has rotted from within and is now a festering petri-dish for the ‘negro grievance culture’ – which gets pretty darned hateful at times.

saiga on July 16, 2008 at 11:20 AM

In all your moralizing and pitying of “inner-city” kids and victims of hip-hop’s influence you forgot to learn how to spell.

You spell like a rapper. Your extended absence from the hood is an asset to those children. Half-cocked do-gooders with questionable education and skills only exacerbate their problems.

Life as a big wuss is much different than the “main stream.”

The NAACP is nothing more than a hate group.

highhopes on July 16, 2008 at 12:31 PM

It’s this dichotomy of dialogue and disgust that makes most of us tire of such “discussions” before they start.

The NAACP is not a hate group. You cannot point to any facts or gathered data which would prove such a point. Your hyperbole is not a hate tactic. It is, however, a stupid one.

I do agree that there are much more worthy groups of people who happen to be black than the NAACP.

“Negroveling….” Yeah, ok.

McCain has made that argument, and even though Barack Obama will win well over 90% of their votes, McCain has started a real dialogue based on the present and future, not on the past.

Just like Rush said, it doesn’t matter how destructive Democrat policies have been to the African-American population. They’ll still be solidly in the corner of the Dems. (The destruction levied by the Great Society on black families, and black two-parent homes, is bad enough, but the numbers on abortion are far more sobering. As Jonah Goldberg noted in Liberal Fascism, 512 out of every 1,000 black births ends in an abortion.)

Credit McCain for getting this dialogue started, and for doing so in a meaningful and thought provoking way, and not just pandering. But, I really wonder what it will take to wake up the majority of black America to the fact that the Democrats, and liberalism, have never done anything but destroy their communities, and literally their lives.

With Obama as the nominee, it sure as heck won’t happen this year. I’ll probably be in the grave before it ever does.

In remarks to the American Federation of Teachers last weekend, Senator Obama dismissed public support for private school vouchers for low-income Americans as, “tired rhetoric about vouchers and school choice.” All of that went over well with the teachers union, but where does it leave families and their children who are stuck in failing schools?

Money, money, money–this is such a money quote for McCain. He needs to say it to the Latino community as well. Heck he should be saying everywhere he goes. ANYBODY who lives in cities with crappy school systems in the urban core, are soooo longing for school choice. And it has an amazing effect on the school system as a whole. Since no school wants to be the one nobody chooses, principals who have been on autopilot for years start doing their job for a change. School choice is THE ISSUE with which the GOP can drive a wedge between the black community and the Democratic Party. The Dems are trapped by their loyalty to the teacher’s unions, while for Republicans, school choice is 100% in line with conservative thinking.

The fact that McCain was willing to address the NAACP while President Bush did not

Bush did, was insulted, and instead addresses responsible groups like the Urban League. McCain can speak to hate groups all he wants, they aren’t going to vote for whitey over a somewhat black candidate.

needs to start the dialogue.

Think_b4_speaking on July 16, 2008 at 10:55 AM

Why? There are far more responsible race-based organizations where this much-hyped “dialogue” is better focused. The NAACP is nothing more than a hate group.

I get regular e-mails exhorting me to remind readers that Republicans pushed the 13th Amendment into being, which is both true and utterly irrelevant.

It is relevant, but only where racial demagogues claim Republicans favor certain economic policies due to racism. This is not an uncommon claim, and it needs to be challenged.

The fact that McCain was willing to address the NAACP while President Bush did not might impress some people. Even if McCain got 20% of the black vote, it could tip the election.

Thank you. Julian Bond,

“The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side,” -Julian Bond.

McCain ought to quote this douche and mention that colored people are not well served by such hateful, malignant language.

Why is groveling for support during a general election different than groveling for support in a primary or for your party?

amerpundit on July 16, 2008 at 11:23 AM

There is no difference. None of it is good.

As predicted by myself and like-minded economics-wonks ;)

Paying billions to maintain the status quo, Like in New Orleans, just generates much more of the same.