Hillary and the Hispanic vote

Dave, Tn — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:13:28 GMT

Must be her support for the Village Reunification Amendment. If you can get one family member over the border it's America's fault that your family is split so we should bring the whole slam damn klan over. So does Obama support the same amendment?

Hillary and the Hispanic vote

Paul Miller, Woodbridge, VA — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:18:41 GMT

Ugh, Mark, that's reading too much into it, I think. Should her campaign not brag about whatever successes she's having with Latinos? And true enough, there's a lot of time between now and the February conventions... er, I mean super duper primary day... when anyone can catch on fire and anyone can cut into anyone else's support, but I just don't think Richardson is the guy to do it.

Hillary and the Hispanic vote

MK,MO — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:20:15 GMT

it would be refreshing to have a candidate that was interested in capturing the american citizen vote

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Dorothy — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:20:47 GMT

"A Word in Spanish"--Elton John

Hillary and the Hispanic vote

MK,MO — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:33:55 GMT

hillary's shouting elspanol from the roof tops may cost her more votes than she gains

Hillary and the Hispanic vote

Dude? Where's my Congress? — Wed, 30 May 2007 19:40:18 GMT

I heard Hillary speaking in a Spanish accent. It was almost convincing as her southern accent LOL! Maybe she can guarantee all of the illegals free health care...wait they already get free health care.

Hillary and the Hispanic vote

jerry/corpus christi texas — Wed, 30 May 2007 20:04:00 GMT

Hola Hillary, Que Paso? Now she can add a third language after southern baptists and New York Street talker. Her strengths?????? WEll, there is cattle future's and getting around the law. I can just see doing a campaign ad based on West Side Story. After her speech yesterday, she does have me a little worried, maybe that ad on youtube from(supposedly)Obamas people might end up coming true.

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Carrie, NW Iowa — Wed, 30 May 2007 20:27:29 GMT

I hardly think Hillary is the first candidate, in this election cycle or any other, who has courted the hispanic/latino vote. If Richardson is going to catch fire, he better do it soon.

Hillary and the Hispanic vote

hollywood2007 — Wed, 30 May 2007 21:16:30 GMT

Trailer trash mentality today, lets bash any one who speaks spanish, what are you all going to do when they elect the first black president, (see latest Zogby poll numbers) can't wait to see, Jerry I'll buy the one way ticket for you, to your mothership, any thing to get you out of the trailer park into the real world.

Hillary and the Hispanic vote

Joe Justice, Santa Monica, CA — Wed, 30 May 2007 23:02:15 GMT

Villaraigosa is to California as Vilsack is to Iowa-- an endorsement for Hillary that may move only a few primary/caucus voters. Both guys have pretty awkward relationships with their own "hometown" folks. Hillary should focus more on getting the voters to like her, rather than these pols.

Hillary and the Hispanic vote

DMM, Chicago, IL — Thu, 31 May 2007 02:22:19 GMT

I'm not interested in voting for any candidate who courts the Hispanic vote. If I wanted to live in Mexico, I would have moved there a long time ago. It's starting to feel an awful lot like Mexico around here... (writing from Chicago) ...the video entertainment monitors on the Chicago buses broadcast news, entertainment and advertising in Spanish. Not even Chicago's firmly established Polish community gets an equivalent privilege, despite that it is the largest Polish community outside of Poland! I guess those of us of European descent could always exercise our "right" to go back to Europe. Each of us white folks who leave would be making room for at least 10 more illegal Mexicans. All the more votes for the Democrats...

Hillary and the Hispanic vote

Tony, Carlsbad CA — Thu, 31 May 2007 06:56:02 GMT

Is that a yeast infection I smell?

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ROBERT CHICAGO IL. — Thu, 31 May 2007 08:14:21 GMT

TO DMM ,SPANISH IS NOT A MEXICAN LENGUAGE,THE ADVERTISEMENT IN SPANISH MEANS BUSINESS,GO TO JEFFERSON PARK(INCHICAGO)EVERYTHING IS IN POLISH AND ALL OF POLAND COULD ;IVI IN HERE SINCE IS SO LITTLE AND FINALLY ,ILLEGALS CAN'T VOTE,THANK GOD CAUSE THERES A LOT OF ILLIGAL POLISH PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY AS WELL AS LATIN AMERICAS AND EUROPEANS WHO ENTER THE COUNTRY AS TOURISTS AND NEVER LEAVE,RIGHT?

Hillary and the Hispanic vote

ROS, NC — Thu, 31 May 2007 13:13:11 GMT

DMM: Thank you for demonstrating the reckless attitudes of many in this country with your remarks. God forbid that future Americans will be naturally bilingual or trilingual! What would that do to America? I guess we should lie still in a shell and watch the whole world move forward in an increasingly connected world. By the way, I am American and Hispanic, not a Mexican, and a conservative Christian! Please think about what your generalizations do, and how they fly in the face of what our nation was built upon: the will of the people (not certain people), free-spirited pioneers (like many immigrants in our nation's history), democratic values, tolerance, and respect.

Hillary and the Hispanic vote

Carrie, NW Iowa — Thu, 31 May 2007 13:25:24 GMT

DMM - Newsflash - illegals can't vote. To vote, you have to be a CITIZEN. Courting the hispanic vote is no different than courting the Jewish vote, the women's vote, the black vote, etc.

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MK,MO — Thu, 31 May 2007 13:59:19 GMT

looks like our corporate owned leaders are going to make all those illegal's everyone is saying can't vote citizens, so yes the politicians most certainly are pandering the illegal vote, things won't change untill the wealthy have to start shooting illegals off the walls of they're gated comunities, the people that always write the tear jerking posts about how the illegals are a good thing are the ones that are either enjoying the benifits of cheap labor or have not been negativly effected personally by illegals, and by the way if you want to be a u.s. citizen speak english, don't expect me to learn what ever it is you speak

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Amy B Portland, ME — Thu, 31 May 2007 14:20:31 GMT

I got one of those "press two for instructions in Spanish" phone trees last night.... when I called my student loan provider. Is it really possible people are borrowing money for tuition and going to college in the USA who do not understand English?

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jerry/corpus christi texas — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:15:19 GMT

Amy, time to get out of Portland Maine and see what is really going on in the country. This is america, you speak english to me, anything else is just greek to me.

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memo, Iowa — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:42:42 GMT

A SURGE IN APPLICATIONS FOR CITIZENSHIP

Voter registration is growing among Hispanics as more become citizens and more become enraged at anti-immigrant policies.

JUST A THOUGHT

Several decades ago, immigrants from Hispanic origin came to the USA. They didn’t bother to participate in politics. They came to work and nothing else. Why to bother if the country was going OK. They didn’t speak the language very well and they thought let’s leave politics in the hands of those who are in power. Working and keeping a job was their main goal. Many even didn’t bother to change their immigrant status as residents.

But a couple of years ago, particularly this year, something happened. Because they can not be recognized or distinguished by appearance, with the so called illegals, they started to realize that they had to become citizens to obtain a higher level of protection. They realized that they were being demonized. Many of them are coming to vote for the first time.
Some of this population belongs to the group that came with the amnesty offered by President Reagan in 1986-1988. They too started to become citizens. There is no way that anyone can identify an illegal alien just by looking at them. They could be legally here; they could have lived in the U.S. for generations. The only marker is skin color.

The rampant xenophobia encased in fear of terrorism has made it critical for the legal immigrants, once illegal, to acquire the status that would grant them immunity from narrow legal persecution. However, it is not strange that in this xenophobic wave these people are feeling being threatened and insulted..

In the meantime, the Republicans had their chance for about 6 years to make a statement that the republican party would take care of the American people and they really showed they don't care by their non-actions and clearly directed actions against inmigrants. Republicans have been filibustering everything that comes up in the Senate.

It is true that some Democrats such as Jim Webb, Jon Tester and Claire McCaskill vote with the majority of Republicans to kill the Senate immigration compromise, without offering a realistic and achievable alternative that would establish a more humane policy.

But, it is also undeniable that the most vicious, the most wretched, the most offensive, the most revolting, the most ruthless, the most vilifying, the most repulsive attacks have come and are still coming from Republicans.

Just a few examples to illustrate it.
1) Sensenbrenner wanted the criminalization of these people.
2) Newt Gingrich, Former House speaker, who coined Spanish as the Language of the gheto
3) Fred Thompson just slammed Cubans, suggesting that they come to America not in search of freedom, but to bring “suitcase bombs.”
4) Dana Rohrbach in his speeches is warning the end of the America as we know it.
5) Tancredo, no comments
6) J.D Hayworth, not reelected, but still instilling hate, same no comments.

There are more cases. The list goes on and on.

One thing is certain, the Republicans were mum on all issues with immigration reform as just one of them. They controlled the white house and congress. If there is anytime in which a party is able to get things done, it's when they don't have anyone to really interfere.
Immigration was just one of them.

Therefore, it seems to me that the most recalcitrant and extreme positions are from Republicans, where no room is for middle ground. This whole episode has branded the Republicans as the anti-inmigrant party.

So Republicans have done this at a national level. Pretty transparent move they did, and now the immigrant population, Irish, Phillipinos and many other immigrants, particularly Hispanics, are aware of this issue.

At any rate, this is the beginning of the legal immigrant backlash directed against the Republican Party for their position on the immigration bill.

By your actions, you shall be judged.!

Hillary and the Hispanic vote

lCharles Moakler, Louisville, Kentucky. — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:43:13 GMT

It's not a Hillary thing that has caused me and many of my friends to change to Republican. Not one democratic presidential candidate is right on immigration. If the Republicans wake up and join Tancredo and Rohrbach they will bury the dems. See numbers.com for my position.