Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Clever
Pasha Obama's latest speech on immigration makes a clever use of a major agreed-on lie.
The shared lie: Republicans are anti-immigration, and Bush The Son was especially anti-immigration. (Alligators in the moat, etc.)
D's like the lie because it lets them paint R's as racist. R's like the lie because it gets them a few votes from uninformed white people, though they don't really want icky filthy white votes. Eeeeewwww! Christians! Eeeeewwwwww!
The facts are a little more complicated.
Fact 1: R and D agree closely on immigration. Both want wide-open borders.
Fact 2: McCain favored wide-open borders even more insanely than Bush did.
Fact 3: Obama has enforced the border slightly better than Bush The Son did.
By playing with the moats and alligators, Obama will force the brand-R establishment to start weeping and weeping and weeping and screaming: "No, we're not racist! We're not racist! We're not racist! We're not racist! We want wide-open borders! We want instant citizenship for all Mexicans whether they're here or not! We want full welfare payments and instant Social Security and free college for all Mexicans before they get here!"
And they will be telling the truth for once.
This will make it much easier for Obama to pass all the open-borders crap he wants, and it will be truly bipartisan.
The shared lie: Republicans are anti-immigration, and Bush The Son was especially anti-immigration. (Alligators in the moat, etc.)
D's like the lie because it lets them paint R's as racist. R's like the lie because it gets them a few votes from uninformed white people, though they don't really want icky filthy white votes. Eeeeewwww! Christians! Eeeeewwwwww!
The facts are a little more complicated.
Fact 1: R and D agree closely on immigration. Both want wide-open borders.
Fact 2: McCain favored wide-open borders even more insanely than Bush did.
Fact 3: Obama has enforced the border slightly better than Bush The Son did.
By playing with the moats and alligators, Obama will force the brand-R establishment to start weeping and weeping and weeping and screaming: "No, we're not racist! We're not racist! We're not racist! We're not racist! We want wide-open borders! We want instant citizenship for all Mexicans whether they're here or not! We want full welfare payments and instant Social Security and free college for all Mexicans before they get here!"
And they will be telling the truth for once.
This will make it much easier for Obama to pass all the open-borders crap he wants, and it will be truly bipartisan.
Labels: Shared Lie
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