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posted at 10:58 pm on August 19, 2008 by Allahpundit
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“They didn’t cross the border, the border crossed them.”
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Wow.
For every vote he gets for this tripe, he will lose five.
drjohn on August 19, 2008 at 11:03 PM
So which is it genius?
4 years or 500 years?
carbon_footprint on August 19, 2008 at 11:04 PM
“When I’m president, I’ll tear up the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo…si, se puede!”
sulla on August 19, 2008 at 11:05 PM
Can Obama explain that to me?
The Mexicans were sitting in their homes minding their own business and the US border SUCKED THEM ACROSS against their will?
EJDolbow on August 19, 2008 at 11:07 PM
500 years? I think the Native Americans were here a little bit longer than that. How long have the tribal leaders been here? About as long as the rest of us, depending on their DOB.
jimmy the notable on August 19, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Maybe Michelle isn’t the only bitter one in the relationship? As the pressure increases we will hear more of these ridiculous yet incriminating barbs from Mr. Obama. Yet he has a huge following… beware the power of stupid people in large numbers.
cannonball on August 19, 2008 at 11:08 PM
Big stinking PO
TUSdmann on August 19, 2008 at 11:08 PM
Obonzo”s a clueless, worthless Pendejo!
byteshredder on August 19, 2008 at 11:08 PM
lifted another line from a movie. what a hack
custer on August 19, 2008 at 11:10 PM
“When do human rights begin?” What determines citizenship?
When it is convenient for the democrats; whenever they can score political points.
Law? We don’t need no stinkin’ law.
rockhauler on August 19, 2008 at 11:10 PM
Yes they have been but;…
Where are the descendants of the peoples they committed genocide upon when they wandered into town?
Beto Ochoa on August 19, 2008 at 11:12 PM
The Left, still not understanding the difference between legal immigration and illegal immigration.
coldwarrior on August 19, 2008 at 11:12 PM
It’s a joy to watch this moron squirm.
Mojave Mark on August 19, 2008 at 11:13 PM
Speaking at a High School in New Mexico.
Barack Obama,
answering a question on immigration;
“The only people can say that they aren’t immigrants are
the people sitting right here”,the Presidential candidate
says and points to the tribal leaders.
“There are some families who have been here for 4 or 500
years.They didn’t cross the border,the border crossed
them.”
Sounds like Obama is going for broke and covering all bets,
and pandering to every voting bloc in the universe!
I can imagine what a American Native Republican would say
to his or her buddy,
that Obama speaks with a fork tongue!
canopfor on August 19, 2008 at 11:15 PM
Oh no he didn’t. RNC, you know what to do.
SoulGlo on August 19, 2008 at 11:15 PM
Hey, why don’t we give reparations to everybody!?! Descendants of slaves, Native Americans, descendants of Europeans who something might have happened to somewhere one time a ways back. That way, my fam can get some dough for our relatives the Indians killed at Jamestown. That’d be sweet. I could use a new video camera. /sarc
CP on August 19, 2008 at 11:18 PM
Ugh.
lorien1973 on August 19, 2008 at 11:19 PM
Yep. Commercials of illegal immigrants streaming through the borders, ending with this quote. A sure winner.
lorien1973 on August 19, 2008 at 11:19 PM
“The border crossed them”…does this mean Obama is in favor of “Russian” Ossetians and Akhazians swarming over Georgia?
coldwarrior on August 19, 2008 at 11:23 PM
Over at the BarrackObama.com, Obama made a “strong” statement about the territorial integrity of Georgia. So, territorial integrity for Georgia is perfectly fine…but territorial integrity for the United States isn’t?
coldwarrior on August 19, 2008 at 11:28 PM
After watching the Rick Warren thing, the debates are going to be absolutely awesome. McCain is going to thrash the newbie, hard…………
adamsmith on August 19, 2008 at 11:30 PM
If they had all been aborted the border wouldn’t have crossed them! He’s a punk ass loser.
SouthernGent on August 19, 2008 at 11:32 PM
That’s okay. BHO doesn’t even know what a border is. He’s just mimicking utterances they teach him.
progressoverpeace on August 19, 2008 at 11:33 PM
Sounds a lot like that Malcom X line.
“We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock! Plymouth Rock landed on us!”
Barry, you’re no Denzel Washington.
sulla on August 19, 2008 at 11:33 PM
Wait, so, like, someone who lived, like, “500 years ago” in what at some future time would be the United States IS today worth our consideration, while a U.S. citizen today who is a few months old and in the womb (not yet born) is NOT worth our consideration?
This stupid quote by Obama (which he ripped off) reminds me of the other stupid quote from Obama about the U.S. approacing our “fourth century” as a nation.
Oh, and the “57 states” thing. This guy’s stupid, face it, he’s stupid.
S on August 19, 2008 at 11:33 PM
I love how people that lose wars want to have a do over.
unseen on August 19, 2008 at 11:33 PM
So he’s saying he’ll reverse the Gadsen Purchase?
Pander-monium!
brak on August 19, 2008 at 11:35 PM
Obama said:
“We are 68 years away from being in our 4th century.”
So:
1776 our nation’s beginning
1876 = our first century
1976 = our second century
2076 will be our third century.
We’re “in our” THIRD CENTURY as a nation, not “(beginning) our fourth century” as Obama says.
Does Obama really think like this? These ongoing raw and wrong statements?
S on August 19, 2008 at 11:37 PM
in reality this is very dangerous. this will dig up anceint greviences. Instead of moving forward as one nation, this line of talk will move us back and could cause widespread choas as all ancient greviences come to the surface. will we have mass emigration to africa and back to europe?
unseen on August 19, 2008 at 11:37 PM
He must be pandering to the senior vote. The really, really senior vote.
MB007 on August 19, 2008 at 11:40 PM
Wait, maybe he was actually right about that, sorry.
S on August 19, 2008 at 11:41 PM
He keeps swiping valedictorian speech material from a high school teenager’s diary. (his?)
Obama’s discourse is in arrested development. Wait, discourse is too generous; read that Obama’s verbosity.
geckomon on August 19, 2008 at 11:42 PM
I think Obama’s far more sympatico than he lets on with the politics of William Ayers.
S on August 19, 2008 at 11:42 PM
What.a.maroon.
I was born in these United States. My ancestors were born in these United States. We are not immigrants. Barack Obama is revealing his hand, though, in that statement. He seems to need to tell us he just wasn’t born here. That’s what I think.
S on August 19, 2008 at 11:45 PM
Hey, Barack, I’ve got news for you. If you get elected and dismantle the U. S. military, the border will cross us too!
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on August 19, 2008 at 11:47 PM
Supposedly my Scandinavian ancestors visited North America about a thousand or so years ago.
You people need to get off my land. Now.
Bishop on August 19, 2008 at 11:49 PM
I think he was referring to McCain’s age.
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on August 19, 2008 at 11:50 PM
24ahead’s critique is trifling. It seems to make much more sense to make an argument as to who the present-day Americans can best allow into the country, from the standpoint of the common advantage of doing so. Bringing people into the country mostly for the sake of their manual labor didn’t work to the Americans’ long-term advantage. I suggest focusing on recruiting the healthy, beautiful, intelligent, and talented.
Kralizec on August 19, 2008 at 11:50 PM
Hey Obama, if you are an immigrant, you can’t run for President.
Sorry. Please turn in the keys to your campaign headquarters and hit the road.
Bishop on August 19, 2008 at 11:51 PM
Consider being wary also of the weakness of large numbers of supposedly smart people who aren’t having children.
Kralizec on August 19, 2008 at 11:54 PM
Like the thin, buxom women with long legs?
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on August 19, 2008 at 11:55 PM
Unfortunately, McCain can’t make any political hay on this subject.
lowandslow on August 19, 2008 at 11:57 PM
S on August 19, 2008 at 11:41 PM
Even if he is right, who thinks like that? Picture in your mind that little pow wow that came up such convoluted crap.
sulla on August 19, 2008 at 11:33 PM
You are dead on, I was trying to think why that sounded familiar. People who are going to do variations on a theme shouldn’t throw plagiarism accusations around.
Cindy Munford on August 20, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Fixed.
MB007 on August 20, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Obama Translation,
Don’t you feel screwed over?
Don’t you want to get even with those whiteys?
Elect me and we’ll make ‘em pay!
Beto Ochoa on August 20, 2008 at 12:00 AM
Well, all I have to say is if the border is going to start crossing people, we are going to have to keep a better eye on it.
Cindy Munford on August 20, 2008 at 12:02 AM
My ancestors came to the colony of Virginia nearly 400 years ago (in the early 17th century) — and it was already a pretty bustling place when they arrived.
As for Obama’s remark about the tribal leaders, does Obama believe in spontaneous generation? Does he think their ancestors just magically sprang up out of the dirt of the North American continent one day? All of our ancestors originally came from the continent of Africa. Is Obama suggesting that the entire world has the right to descend upon the African continent and set up homes there wherever we choose, regardless of the laws of the sovereign nations of Africa, just because we can all trace our ancestry back to that continent? I’m guessing the Africans would not be too keen on that idea, or Obama either. But somehow it’s okay for him to suggest that our nation has no right to protect itself from being invaded by foreigners with similarly weak claims to live here.
AZCoyote on August 20, 2008 at 12:06 AM
I’ve had family here since Jamestown. We built this country Barrack and now you want to give it back? Good luck with that line of reasoning. Tool.
Geronimo on August 20, 2008 at 12:07 AM
I hope not. I really, really hate snakes and those damn kitty’s are huge-mongous. No freakin’ way man.
Geronimo on August 20, 2008 at 12:12 AM
McCain: We are all Georgians.
Obama: We are all Illegals.
lorien1973 on August 20, 2008 at 12:12 AM
My wife often says I have the manners and sensitivity of a Neanderthal, which can only mean one thing: I own the earth.
Bishop on August 20, 2008 at 12:16 AM
Never question his patriotism!
WisCon on August 20, 2008 at 12:16 AM
People like Obama who claim we don’t need borders are not credible unless they leave their doors unlocked 24/7!!!
Let us know how that works out for you, O!!!
landlines on August 20, 2008 at 12:17 AM
Considering that all continents were once a single land mass, it would be more accurate to say, “You didn’t cross the tectonic plates, the tectonic plates crossed you”.
Bishop on August 20, 2008 at 12:22 AM
Heh. Indeed.
SouthernGent on August 20, 2008 at 12:26 AM
Yahtzee!!
hillbillyjim on August 20, 2008 at 12:27 AM
Quote of the month.
hillbillyjim on August 20, 2008 at 12:33 AM
Maybe France would be willing to let us return New Orleans?
I’ll give LA to Mexico. No problemo. And Canada can have Seattle, Detroit, and Chicago, and the Brits can have Boston.
funky chicken on August 20, 2008 at 12:33 AM
Human rights don’t begin until some time after birth, but immigration rights go back 10,000 years?
jgapinoy on August 20, 2008 at 12:39 AM
If the border crossed them over 150 years ago, how come they were still on the other side of the border until just recently?
Methinks, we should add logic what these people are foreign to.
Dusty on August 20, 2008 at 12:40 AM
logic what = logic to what
Dusty on August 20, 2008 at 12:42 AM
I am really beginning to wonder if Obama has ever commented on or written about private property rights. If he respects private property, then what he is saying about borders is nullified. If he is denying the fact that the USA is the legal owner of it’s territory, then de facto he doesn’t recognize that I own my land.
Therefore it is ripe for the taking. Good luck with that…
redshirt on August 20, 2008 at 12:42 AM
To take his position on face value and spread the guilt in the most egalitarian manner possible, only those whose ancestors, back to the nth generation, never killed, participated in genocide, enslaved or in any other way “victimized” any other people have a “right” to consider themselves to be “not immigrants.”
Those “The One” judges “guilty” - and that is precisely what he does - have no “right” to claim true ownership of any land obtained through force by any nation, clan or tribe. In fact, appropriate expression of guilt should compel all but those whose forebears are free of such stains to remove themselves to the place of their ultimate origin.
It’ll be crowded in the space between the Tigris and Euphrates, with a completely empty world around it. But Obamessiah has decreed it.
Sigh. Sadly, our other choice is just as disgusting.
kdaddy on August 20, 2008 at 12:43 AM
hillbillyjim on August 20, 2008 at 12:33 AM
You are too sweet, thanks.
Cindy Munford on August 20, 2008 at 12:47 AM
This is exactly what the socialists want and need.
desperate people do desperate things: accept socialism as a savior.
allrsn on August 20, 2008 at 12:48 AM
kdaddy on August 20, 2008 at 12:43 AM
I don’t do guilt.
Cindy Munford on August 20, 2008 at 12:48 AM
http://www.nationmakers.com/com_goals.htm
communist goals in america: this was posted on another thread.
allrsn on August 20, 2008 at 12:53 AM
There were no blacks on the North American continent until the 16th century.
Should they all have to return to Africa, since the border crossed them, too?
They do have their own continent.
Why don’t they go back?
And the same with those of Hispanic descent.
Shouldn’t they all return to Spain and leave the Americas to the children of the aboriginal natives alone?
In fact, shouldn’t we all just go back to the Olduvai Gorge, eat raw meat, and kill things with rocks?
Obama will be going at the the cartoon caveman Neanderthal vote next.
And then the coelecanths.
Leave no stone unpandered.
profitsbeard on August 20, 2008 at 12:55 AM
Who does he think he is, Yakov Smirnoff? “In Soviet Russia, borders cross you!”
Damian G. on August 20, 2008 at 12:57 AM
LOL good point. Maybe we should go back 50000 years when the homosepian border crossed the neanderthal border and we homosepians would not exist to cause all these problems, I mean the neanderthal were perfect right?
allrsn on August 20, 2008 at 1:00 AM
I read in a stupid wind power propaganda pamplet that Gore has a time machine and took aftermath pictures of a steaming earth. Maybe Obama can borrow that machine and send us all back!
allrsn on August 20, 2008 at 1:02 AM
It’s another Obama goof. He’s confusing Gonawandaland with Gonna’-want-that-land.
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on August 20, 2008 at 1:31 AM
“Of course that land was yours, you have a bill of sale or title or deed or will or something from when you bought it, right?”
.
“You don’t?”
.
“OK, then you have title insurance, right? Just make a claim.”
.
“You don’t have title insurance??”
.
“What are you, some kind of idiot?”
.
“What do you mean its yours because your ancestors lived here? My ancestors lived in the Black Forest 300 years ago, does that mean I own Germany? That’s great news, I’ll let the Germans know that Obama said Germany belongs to me and my Neanderthal ancestors.”
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“Where is your family from, BTW?”
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“I don’t think Guadalupe was ever part of the US, Are you sure the US border used to be that far South??”
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“Wow, you learn something new every day!”
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“So, do you want Guadalupe back, or what?”
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“Souix City, Iowa??”
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“I thought Souix City belonged to the Native Americans?”
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“Oh! Guadalupe IS part of ‘America’ and Souix City is part of the ‘Indian Nation’, I see!”
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“Then we are either ALL Americans, or none of us are! I agree! Cans I haves another cervesa??”
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“How come the US doesn’t let the Native Mexicans have casinos like the ‘Tribes’?”
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“Just wondering.”
AZCON on August 20, 2008 at 1:48 AM
From the time of Adam and Eve, everyone had to come from someplace, sometime.
So what, if anyone outside our laws feels entitled to our space on this earth, wherever their ancestors where before, that was then, this is now and wherever they where recently is just as good as living here outside our laws, if they make it that way, which is their own issue and no responsibility of ours.
We are not responsible for all the peoples on the earth and especially not for people who take us for a bunch of suckers and its incredible that any Americans would think we are, or should be.
Speakup on August 20, 2008 at 1:54 AM
“You want it back? Fight me for it!”
AZCON on August 20, 2008 at 2:18 AM
BO was allegedly born in Hawaii which was a sovreign nation not too long ago. No comment about that though??? Hello?? BO???
HawaiiLwyr on August 20, 2008 at 2:39 AM
Guys- he’s right. We should recognize as citizens those formerly living in Mexico but now living in the US due to the expanding of the US borders; furthermore…
…what’s that? We did that a long, long time ago? Nevermind.
Next thing you know, we’ll be giving Hawaiians the right to vote…
WHAT?!? Dammit.
Hollowpoint on August 20, 2008 at 2:53 AM
Hey Obama, try reading “The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo“…………. A** Clown!
Seven Percent Solution on August 20, 2008 at 3:11 AM
No, thanks! We’ve already got London!
OldEnglish on August 20, 2008 at 5:25 AM
BTW, Obama, can I stake a claim for reparations over the loss of my external territories?
OldEnglish on August 20, 2008 at 5:26 AM
….instead of landing on Plymouth Rock,
Plymouth Rock would land on them….
Sorry, distracted by Cole Porter
meep on August 20, 2008 at 5:59 AM
Oh, the race-baiting racist opened his mouth again. How cute. Nothing like race relations being set back several decades if BHO wins the White House - oh joy!
Grafted on August 20, 2008 at 6:38 AM
There is an old South of the Border saying
A closed mouth catches no flies
[Sigh] in case Obama is reading this I will elaborate:
‘Flies’ refer to insects not baseballs, that fly around garbage piles.
If the mouth is closed the flies cannot fly into the mouth. A mouth is open more if a politician is talking than if a politician is eating arugula. Once a fly flies into the mouth it is too late.
Flies are Christians. They are not muslims and they have never been muslims, if they ever were.
Eating a fly is not above the paygrade of a politician. Not eating a fly is a cheap form of patriotism, like flag lapel pins.
A fly is a Citizen of the world.
The fly is not longer what it could be or what it once was.
A fly is just downright mean
etc
entagor on August 20, 2008 at 10:10 AM
The Mexican Military is as comical and useless the Mexican governnment. Maybe they could beat Guatemala.
saiga on August 20, 2008 at 10:16 AM
I’ll have you know, Mr. Obaa-aa-aa-aama, MY family has been here since before the Revolutionary War - before the forming of our country. My ancestor, Arthur Middleton, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Don’t you dare try to call me an immigrant to America. We were here when it was formed.
Jacka$$.
tickleddragon on August 20, 2008 at 10:51 AM
The border crossed them? Texas became a State, with its current borders, in 1845. How many of today’s Hispanics were alive then? Those over 163 years old?
The ancestors of today’s Mexicans came from Spain. According to Obama’s logic, they should go back to Spain and give Mexico back to the Aztecs.
Steve Z on August 20, 2008 at 2:14 PM