Obama campaign’s Rev. Wright-style approach to fomenting ethnic hate
This is despicable. These Spanish-language ads, targeting Hispanics, attempt to tar John McCain with Rush Limbaugh’s 1990s comments on Mexican immigration. Of course, as the Obama campaign surely knows, Limbaugh has been a harsh critic of McCain’s views on immigration. But, I guess the Obama campaign figures that the ad’s audience will just think that since both men are white Republicans then they must hold the same views on everything. Thus, ironically, this ad attempts to illicit and nurture bigotry in its viewers, which means that the Obama campaign does not respect them. When someone expects you to be a bigot, they don’t think very highly of you.
In case you may have forgotten the pastoral insights of the Rev. Wright, go here. These recent ads are cut from the same demagogic cloth.
IIRC, the comments attributed to Rush seem to be from his reading (literal–reading) of Mexican immigration law on one of his “Morning Updates.”
So Rush explains Mexican immigration law, “endorsing” it (in sarcasm) for adoption in the USA—and the Obama campaign says that it is Rush’s position?
Uh-huh.
It is perhaps too bad that no court in the country could apply such a sentence to those who wish to curse our country.
I try to remember to read this story at least once a year. Seeing Rev. Wright’s name reminded me of some of the things that he has said with in the walls of a church.
http://books.google.com/books?id=PFHkenBUXssC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Man+Without+a+Country#PPA7,M1
(Soy la mujer de Donald que escribe ahora.) Hay dos problemas con el aviso de ataque “Doe Caras:”
1ro) Al Sr. Limbaugh nunca le ha gustado mucho el senador McCain, asi` que es erro`neo enlazarlos en este aviso.
2do) Los comentarios del Sr. Limbaugh fueron usados fuera de contexto –
– en el primero, igualo` a los trabajadores sin experiencia ni educacio`n norteamericanos (!que incluyeron a mi madastra difunta!) y los de Me`xico, mientras hablaba del trato NAFTA; y
– en el segundo, hizo un comentario sarca`stico sobre las leyes de inmigracio`n de Me`xico, en contrasto con las de los EE.UU..
Concluyendo (con apologi`as a las revistas de historietas de DC Comics), me parece que los ayudantes del “Barack-man” que han compuesto este aviso de ataque sean los que tienen “Dos Caras.”