A politician being cynical is not exactly a “man bites
dog” story, as seven years of President Barack Obama has taught us. But when
the president goes in front of a Hispanic audience and praises the Bush
immigration law he personally helped scuttle, cynicism reaches new heights. Obama
was much more honest, though, about his particular interest in this segment of
the population when he responded to boos from the audience to a reference to
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. He paused and gave his trademark incantation, “Don’t
boo…vote. They can’t hear the boos…they can hear your vote.”……. For that, of
course, he needs immigrants and their descendants to feel aggrieved, to cluster
into groups, and to see themselves as “minorities,” not as past immigrants have
seen themselves. Everything he says and
every policy he enacts has these goals in mind. But he shouldn’t be allowed to
get away with praising a law he helped kill…..To Read More……
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