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Originally Posted by spence
He was on UNIVISION for Christmas sake.
Did you read the actual transcript? President Obama is quite lucid and articulate.
President Obama says very clearly upon taking office his highest priority was the economy. He also says that the Republicans who supported reform before the election had suddenly flipped...
The President doesn't have magic powers. If Republican Senators aren't going to participate in the dialogue then President Obama doesn't have a filibuster proof majority for very long, perhaps a few months? Hell, he couldn't even get the DREAM ACT through the Senate let alone comprehensive reform.
I'm not sure what your point of this entire thread is...just sounds like senseless bitching to me.
Seriously Jim, you're making the BLAME BUSH crowd look like rank amateurs.
-spence
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"He was on UNIVISION for Christmas sake..."
What's your point? That it's OK for Obama to pander to the audience, tell them whatever they want to hear, and then forget about it?
"Did you read the actual transcript?
Sure I did. Did you?
In 2008, Obama said this..."What I can
guarantee is that we will have in the first year an immigration bill that I strongly support"
Read more:
Hector Barreto: On Univision, Obama Admits Breaking Promises to Hispanics | Fox News Latino
Spence, that's not an ambiguous statement, is it?
Obama promi9sed immigration reform in his first year. During every single day of that first year, the Democrats controlled the legislature. Therefore, he cannot honestly say that the GOP stopped him from honoring his "guarantee".
"President Obama says very clearly upon taking office his highest priority was the economy"
Fine. WHY CAN'T HE DO TWO THINGS AT THE SAME TIME? You keep dodging that question, Spence...
"President Obama doesn't have a filibuster proof majority for very long, perhaps a few months?"
You're being dishonest here. Once again, he had a fillibuster-proof majority for every single day of his first 13 months (which is longer than the time period in which he guaranteed immigration reform. And even after thatm did the Democrats propose immigration reform that was fillibustered by the GOP? Nope...
"I'm not sure what your point of this entire thread is"
(1) Obama broke a specific promise
(2) Obama lied about why he didn't fulfill that promise (the GOP could not have blocked immigration reform during his entire first year)
(3) you are as intellectually dishonest as he is, incapable of questioning anything that comes out of his mouth