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McCain Courts The Communists
By Greg L | 9 July 2008 | National Politics | 12 Comments
Barack Obama is going to reach out to the Communist Party for votes, which comes as little surprise since it’s pretty difficult to distinguish some of his policies from those of the Communist Party. John McCain is joining him however, I guess following through on his “maverick” image, and for many of us this is downright disgusting. So much for the so-called conservative that likes to show pictures of himself with Ronald Reagan. McCain is a sell-out for going to this.
First, let’s get a description of the National Latino Congress, courtesy of a Spanish-language website (from cache) that was promoting the event (also noted here). Unfortunately, the source informador.com is surprisingly not available any longer. Maybe it has something to do with this:
The two presidential candidates will discuss matters of interest for the latin american community in this country.
Los Angeles.- The two main presidential candidates, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama, will be the guests of honor at the third Latin American National Congress, that will be carried out on July 18 and 19 in Los Angeles.
The organizers confirmed the participation of the two politicians in the event, that will be performed in an exclusive hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, where it is expected that more than 300 organizations of 20 cities will attend.
On the first day, McCain will be presented during lunch and Obama at dinner. The two virtual presidential candidates will discuss matters of interest for the latin american community in this country.
In the First National Latin American Congress of 2006, 70 resolutions on diverse issues were taken and 260 local and national organizations assisted, in 2007 300 cities attended and 98 resolutions were adopted.
Among the issues undertaken during both congresses were educational reform, migration, public health, urban development and foreign policy, among others.
The organizers advanced that they prepare an ambitious agenda to promote the registration of millions of latin Americans as new voters in order to continue growing like a political force that can influence the elections next November.
The leader of Latin-American Mexican Brotherhood and the Mexican-American Political Association (MAPA), Nativo López, indicated that the young voters can make the difference in the electoral mobilization.
‘In this electoral year we should move and act as a united family and no one is left behind’, indicated López, who considered that another of the issues that will be emphasized in the debate will be driver’s licenses for the undocumented.
Among the organizations that will attend the event are the Willie C. Velásquez Institute, the League of Latin-American United Citizens (LULAC), the Mexican-american Educational and Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF) and the National Network of Day Laborers (NDLON).
As well as the Hispanic Federation, the Educational Project of Registration of Voters of the Southwest (SVREP), the National Alliance of Latin-American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC) and the Hispanic National Council on Environment (NHEC). (emphasis added)
Drivers licenses for illegal aliens? I can’t wait to see John McCain address that one while pandering to these folks.
The article points us to the website of the Latino Congress, where we get a chance to see who is taking part in this Hispandering opportunity. There’s the usual list of organizations seeking special privilege on the basis of ethnicity, plus an organization of day laborers which is mildly annoying. I’m sure the day laborer vote is going to be really significant this election, which must explain why McCain feels compelled to reach out to them.
The National Latino Congress is convened by the Hispanic Federation (HF), the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA), League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC), the National Day Labor Organizing Network (NDLON), the National Hispanic Environmental Council (NHEC), Southwest Voter Registration Education Project (SVREP), and the William C. Velasquez Institute (WCVI).
Notice MALDEF, the ones that filed a truly goofy suit against Prince William County demanding that the Rule of Law Resolution be rescinded? Yeah, I want McCain reaching out to these guys. I wonder what he’s going to offer them in return for the support he inevitably will not receive.
If you check out the endorsers page, you will find the following endorsers, and here’s where your eyes start to bulge. John McCain is going to address a conference which officially involves the Communist Party USA? Or the Aztlan Network? Here’s the full list, which includes a whole lot of folks that I have a hard time believing that John McCain would be well served reaching out to. It ranges from simply racist ethnic superiority organizations to radical environmentalists, right to some downright anti-American radicals that John McCain should be shunning, not begging to.
2008 Organizational Endorsers
- Alianza de los Pueblos del Rio
- American Leadership Institute
- American Sports University
- Anahuak Youth Sports Association
- California Latinas for Reproductive Justice
- California Latino School Board Association
- California League of United Latin American Citizens
- Californians for Electoral Reform
- Casa de la Cultura Maya
- Casa De La Cultura Maya
- Cesar Chavez Youth Leadership Conference-Sierra College
- Cesar E. Chavez National Holiday
- Chicano Consortium
- Coalition Against Militarism in our Schools
- Committee to Close the School of the Americas
- Communist Party USA
- Comunidades Por La Democracia Participativa-El Salvador
- Drug Policy Alliance Network
- Equality Alabama
- FairVote
- Federacion Mexico Unido
- Fontana Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
- Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana
- Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana - Anaheim
- Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana - Boyle Heights
- Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana - Corona
- Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana - Ontario
- Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana - Santa Ana
- Hispanic Enpowerment Association of Roseville
- Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California
- Int’l Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban 5
- L.A. Community Legal Center and Educational
- La Raza Lawyers Association of Sacramento
- La Raza Network
- La Raza Network de Sacramento
- Labor Council Latin America Advancement-Sacramento Chapter
- Latin American Student Association
- LatinoCare
- Latinos For America
- Latinos For Peace
- Long Beach Immigrant Rights Coalition
- Lujan and Associates
- LULAC Council #1111 - Maricopa County, AZ
- LULAC District 19
- LULAC District 4
- LULAC Santa Ana #147
- LULAC-Lorenzo Patino Council #2862
- MAPA
- March 25
- Mexican American Political Association - Anaheim
- Mexican American Political Association - Anaheim
- Mexican American Political Association - Antelope Valley
- Mexican American Political Association - Armando Campero
- Mexican American Political Association - Boyle Heights
- Mexican American Political Association - Central Coast
- Mexican American Political Association - Las Vegas
- Mexican American Political Association - Lennox
- Mexican American Political Association - Ontario
- Mexican American Political Association - Richmond
- Mexican American Political Association - San Jacinto Valley
- Mexican American Political Association - San Joaquin
- Mexican American Political Association - Santa Ana
- Mexican American Political Association - UCR
- Mexican-American Political Assocaition - San Diego County
- Mujeres de la Tierra
- National Hispanic Media Coalition
- National Latino Farmers & Ranchers Trade Association
- Network Aztlan dot com
- Palisadians for Peace
- PolicyLink
- PowerPAC.org
- Respect Respeto
- Riverside Latino Voter Project
- Rivertown Builders and Developement CO.
- San Fernando Valley/Northeast Los Angeles Chapter N.O.W.
- School of the Americas Watch
- School of the Americas Watch-Los Angeles
- SEIU Local-DLC 765
- Sierra Club
- Somos America / We Are America Coalition
- Southwestern Hispanic Roundtable
- Stage Of The Arts, Inc
- TreePeople
- University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Arnold M. Dubin Labor Educ
- Urban Semillas
- Valley HI Political Action Committee
- Voter Education Project, Inc.
I’m disgusted. If McCain had any moral courage, he would tell these folks to pound sand. Since he won’t, I guess I can draw a conclusion or two about the moral courage remaining in John McCain after his long “service” in the United States Senate doing things like the McCain-Feingold campaign finance “reform” bill, and the McCain-Kennedy amnesty for illegal aliens.
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Most of these endosements are Hispanic groups, what gives? No one else trusts him?
McCain was brainwashed by the communists while in captivity. This is the only explanation and I think it serves well to explain his politics. He obviously has a syndrome where he flashes back to a subservient and obsequious mode of dealing with what he believes are power brokers. In other words, he thinks he can pacify the left (as with his VC captors) by telling them what they want to hear, giving lip service, and allowing them to save face. He probably thinks he’s fooling them into thinking he’s coming along.
The problem is, he’s not supposed to act like a prisoner to the left’s ideology.
The problem is, he comes across deceitful because he’s being deceitful.
The problem is, he’s giving us the wrong definition of a conservative—someone who holds the line in the place where the last liberal moved it.
I would like to see the Republican Party come together and REVOLT over McCain as a choice for their candidate. I would like to see the delegates revolt and vote for a TRUE Republican!
McCain has more moral courage than you could ever dream to have.
But you can always wonder how many minutes YOU would have lasted under Vietnameese torture.
…but charles, he’s NO LONGER UNDER VIETNAMESE TORTURE, he’s just acting as if he is.
Believe me, McCain isn’t as scarey as Osama errr Obama, and he’s definitely the better of the two. However, I’m with starryflights on this one — yet it will never happen.
How in the world did we EVER end up with such a ridiculously poor choice — a liberal Republican and a socialist Democrat?
Killing Iranian Civilians Isn’t Hilarious, Senator McCain
Posted July 9, 2008 | 02:16 PM (EST)
Senator McCain has famously said, “Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.”
How, then, should we describe a clearly unbalanced presidential candidate who jokes about killing innocent civilians as part of a larger war-mongering foreign policy? “A fool or a fraud” barely cracks the surface. There are a few other f-words that might suffice, but in lieu of those, might I suggest “unhinged maniac” or “tasteless hack” or “creepy, twitchy, psychotic hoople without any internal monologue who shouldn’t be allowed within a hundred square miles of the nuclear launch codes”?
Yesterday, Senator McCain was asked about an AP story in which it was revealed that during the Bush years there has been a significant increase in American exports — including cigarettes — to Iran. First, Senator McExperience admitted that he hadn’t heard about this news story. That’s bad. But not bad enough for the corporate media to wet-nap the barbeque sauce off their fingers so as to successfully pen a news item about it. But it doesn’t matter because Senator McShecky followed his ignorance with this reaction to the cigarettes exports:
“Maybe that’s a way of killing them.”
Then the uncomfortable, jittery, bottled-rage laughter and, “That was a joke!”
I sincerely hope so. I hope the Iranian government gets the correct tone-of-voice in the translation, especially if what Senator Jackie McJokeman and his neocon wack pack are saying about Iran’s impending nuclear arsenal is true. I can only imagine how the Cheney-ish warhawks would react if Ahmedinejad cracked a similarly unfunny zinger about killing our citizens — or the citizens of Israel.
…but anonymous, instead of cigarettes, Osama would simply use chocolates, fruits, lobsters and other goodies to win Ahmegenocide over…hoping they’d eat themselves silly — really now, what’s the difference except for cost?
I wish Dick Cheney would run for president he could have Carl Rove as his VP. Thats a ticket I could vote for.
Seriously, McCain needs to stop talking with the Communists and Socialists. I don’t think I can vote for this guy. I might have to throw my “neocon” ways out the window and vote for Barr. At least he wants to secure the borders.
How in the world did we ever end up with such poor choices? Last year at this time McCain was on the bottom. The other republican presidential candidates were picked off one by one. And the ‘maverick’ rides into the ring and the rest is the present mess.
Through maneuvers and manipulating of BOTH PARTIES that is how we have no choice!!! Republicans have decided to win by forfeiting the principles that they ONCE believed. They’ve surrended to become like the dems. The likely choice would be neither in November! I refuse to vote for the least of the 2 evils. There is no real difference as I can see.
Is Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party going to be on the ballot? If so, he will get my vote. If not, I will stay home and play computer chess. The Maniac is too mind warped to trust in the position, and Hussein is the mirror image of a Communist.
JESSE’S ‘OOPS’ NOT SUCH AN ACCIDENT?
Source: NY Post
URL Source: http://www.nypost.com/seven/07112008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/jesses_oops_119388.htm
Published: Jul 11, 2008
Author: Charles Hurt
Post Date: 2008-07-11 17:13:39 by JoeSnuffy
HOW much player-hate can fester in one man’s heart?
Apparently, quite a lot if you’re the Windy City’s World-Class Windbag.
Jesse Jackson has spent his entire life in love with the microphone. He knows them intimately.
He’s such an aficionado of the mike that Detroit’s beloved late mayor, Coleman Young, dismissed one of Jackson’s failed vanity bids for the presidency by noting that “all he’s ever run is his mouth.”
Jackson’s claim to have been caught unbeknownst by a “hot mike” slurring and threatening Barack Obama is complete hogwash.
Somewhere, deep down, he wanted the world - and Obama - to know how much he wants to “cut his nuts out.”
Veterinarians and doctors talk about cutting nuts “off.” Only a thug or a gangster cuts a man’s nuts “out.”
And Jackson knows better than most the vicious symbolism of castration and its blood-soaked link to lynchings in the Old South.
Nor is this the first time Jackson bared his anger. Last year, when Obama wasn’t sufficiently politicizing the beating prosecution of six black teens in Louisiana known as the “Jena Six,” Jackson said Obama was “acting white.”
What accounts for Jackson’s latest animosity toward the Democratic nominee? He said it’s because Obama was “talking down to black folks.”
In a Father’s Day speech, Obama told black churchgoers that a father’s responsibility “doesn’t just end at conception.”
“What makes you a man is not the ability to have a child - any fool can have a child,” Obama said. “It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.”
Maybe this struck a little too close to home for the Rev. Jackson, who just a few years ago finally owned up to fathering a child outside of his marriage even as he was busy counseling President Bill Clinton on his dalliances with a White House intern.
Charles Hurt is The Post’s Washington Bureau chief.
What could one expect from a man that touts his Expertise as Foreign affairs & Iraq and when after numerous tax payers paid trips to Iraq he does not know the different between the Shiites & Sunnites? Could anyone expect him to know Econ 101 that when you flood an Nation with uneducated, criminally peons from an third nation that the standard of living goes down, Welfare goes up, & our Constitution & Laws goes in the trash heap!