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Obama ties McCain to Rush Limbaugh in immigration ads
Sen. Barack Obama released a Spanish-language radio and TV ad Tuesday that ties Sen. John McCain to talk show host Rush Limbaugh and immigration hard liners in his party.
The ad will air in Florida, Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico, Obama campaign officials said.
The ad says that McCain and “his Republican friends” have “two faces” when it comes to Latinos.
The ad shows a picture of Limbaugh with a quote underneath which says, “Mexicans — stupid and unqualified.” A narrator says that McCain wants Latinos to forget “the insults” and “the intolerance.”
Hessy Fernandez, McCain’s spokesperson for Hispanic media, denounced the ad as “hypocritical and desperate.”
“Sen. McCain never used that kind of rhetoric,” she said. “Sen. McCain took a lot of heat, at great political risk, for this issue.”
See the ad here, as featured on the Washington Post web site:
The Obama ad is a reaction to a McCain Spanish language ad that blames Obama for the demise of an immigration bill last year. Obama’s campaign said Tuesday the ad was untruthful. Here it is:
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By L1M89
September 18, 2008 12:27 AM | Link to this
“Mexicans - stupid and unqualified” is a hateful phrase that exposes the desperation of Team Barackula. Lying & desperation are bred by Barackula’s legislative record of underachieving. Since he can’t dazzle us with his brilliance as a Senator, Barackula must baffle us with his nebulous change & hope BS while smearing conservatives, Republicans & RINO‘s.
Quote: [‘Obama has sponsored 136 bills since Jan 4, 2005, 2 have become law. Obama has co-sponsored 619 bills during the same time period. According to Factcheck.org however “cosponsorship does not require a commitment of time, energy or resources - let alone the political or policy ingenuity that might generate a bill idea in the first place.”
An accurate comparison would have included only the bills Obama has sponsored that have been signed into law. Obama has had just two in his three years:[1] S. 3757, A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 950 Missouri Avenue in East St. Louis, Illinois, as the “Katherine Dunham Post Office Building. S. 2125, A bill to promote relief, security, and democracy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
more - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ListofbillssponsoredbyBarackObamaintheUnitedStates_Senate
By L1M89
September 18, 2008 1:27 AM | Link to this
Lying may be acceptable in an ObamaNation but as long as we remain patriotic citizens of our USA, Barackula’s lies will be challenged at every vile utterance.
Quote: [‘BREAK TRANSCRIPT
While McCain is out there saying he loves illegal immigrants and wants to welcome them, the real Republicans like me are saying, shut your mouth or get out. Now, what’s interesting, I never said that. Even in the heat of the amnesty battle, I never said shut your mouth or get out, even in the middle of those protests. What we have learned is that the usual suspects are behind this. The Media Matters types, the Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting types, they are the people putting together Obama ads. Obama’s new, right? Obama’s into unity, Obama’s into change, he’s using the same old Democrat Party flacks, the same hacks. The statement you’re a foreigner, shut your mouth and get out, was made, I did say it, but in a parody of Mexican immigration laws in a Morning Update April 6th of 2006.
We were making fun of Mexican immigration laws by trying to point out the stark difference between what you can do as an immigrant or illegal immigrant in Mexico versus what they can do here. Now, let me just give you some of the highlights of this. “Everybody’s making immigration proposals these days. Let me add mine to the mix. Call it the Limbaugh Laws. First, if you emigrate to our country—” Now, you have to keep in mind that when this Update ran, we’re in the midst of another one of these high-pressured debates of illegal immigration, and we have learned what Mexican immigration laws are. I’m simply, in this Update, informing people what Mexican immigration laws are.’] (Quote to be continued)
By L1M89
September 18, 2008 1:30 AM | Link to this
(continued Quote:) [’”Everybody’s making immigration proposals these days. Let me add mine to the mix. Call it the Limbaugh Laws. First, if you emigrate to our country you have to speak the native language. You have to be a professional or an investor. No unskilled workers allowed. Also there will be no special bilingual programs in the schools with the Limbaugh Laws, no special ballots for elections, no government business will be conducted in your language, foreigners will not have the right to vote or hold political office. If you’re in our country, you cannot be a burden to taxpayers. You are not entitled to welfare, food stamps, or other government goodies. You can come if you invest here an amount equal to $40,000 times the daily minimum wage. If not, stay home. But if you want to buy land it’s going to be restricted. No waterfront, for instance. As a foreigner, you must relinquish individual rights to the property. And another thing, you don’t have the right to protest. You’re allowed no demonstrations, no foreign flag waving, no political organizing, no bad-mouthing our president or his policies. You’re a foreigner, either shut your mouth or get out. And if you come here illegally, you’re going to jail. You think the Limbaugh Laws are harsh? Well, every one of these laws I just mentioned are actual laws of Mexico today. That’s how the Mexican government handles immigrants in their country, yet Mexicans come here illegally and protest in our streets. How do you say double standard in Spanish? How about no mas?”’]
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By L1M89
September 18, 2008 1:41 AM | Link to this
(continued Quote:) [‘It happens constantly when they want to link me, the left, constantly take me totally out of context, knowingly doing so. We can even go back, we could probably post on the website the Dittocam version of this Morning Update from April 6 of 2006 to prove it. Well, we don’t need to prove it, but here. I’m reciting Mexican immigration law: You’re a foreigner, shut your mouth or get out. The Obama campaign has taken “shut your mouth or get out” from this commentary and put it in an Obama ad and claiming I said that about Mexicans in this country, when I never have, plain and simple. Also, what is the other quote they have me saying? I don’t have it in front of me. Stupid and unskilled Mexicans. That was way back in 1994 from the NAFTA debate, and I was chiding Americans — remember, I was pro-NAFTA — I was chiding Americans for being afraid of losing the kind of jobs that would go to an unskilled workforce. I was referring to the stupid and unskilled workers in this country, too, as a sales pitch for NAFTA, don’t worry about these kind of jobs, they’re jobs you won’t do anyway, is what I said back in 1994. And both of these things have been taken out of context on purpose, and I’m not even sure that the first quote’s accurate ‘cause this wacko from the Boston Globe, Derrick Jackson, who is an extremist leftist to the hilt has picked it up and quoted it, but that’s it. We now know that the people running Obama’s campaign ran the Clintons campaign, they’re the same bunch.
END TRANSCRIPT’] more - http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_091708/content/01125112.guest.html
Once again the Leftist moonbats are the source of racism, hate speak n’ lies & that brings nothing to the debate other than the mark of Barackula..