{"id":510,"date":"2007-07-23T08:32:21","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T12:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/23\/obama-choses-image-over-substance\/"},"modified":"2007-07-23T08:32:21","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T12:32:21","slug":"obama-choses-image-over-substance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"Obama choses image over substance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love it when my posts become reality. Yesterday I wrote two &#8211; one about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/2007\/07\/22\/la-raza-boobs-call-illegal-immigration-debate-racism\/\" target=\"_blank\">La Raza<\/a> and the other about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/2007\/07\/22\/image-vs-substance\/\" target=\"_blank\">image vs. substance<\/a>. While I was writing, Barack Obama was writing my post for today, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070723\/NATION\/107230063\/1001\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Barack Obama told the nation&#8217;s largest Hispanic advocacy group yesterday that he earned their support for his presidential campaign by marching in last year&#8217;s May 1 immigrant rallies and challenged them to learn whether others met that standard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Find out how many senators appeared before an immigration rally last year. Who was talking the talk, and who walked the walk \u00e2\u20ac\u201d because I walked,&#8221; Mr. Obama said at the National Council of La Raza&#8217;s annual convention in Miami Beach. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t run away from the issue, and I didn&#8217;t just talk about it in front of Latino audiences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Illinois Democrat said the recent Senate immigration debate &#8220;was both ugly and racist in a way we haven&#8217;t see since the struggle for civil rights.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Racist in what way, Barack? In a way that we don&#8217;t encourage people to break the law? When people who want to live in this country and make a better life for their families here, stand in large groups and wave the flag of another country &#8211; the country from which they escaped? The country that repressed them in the first place and made them want to come here? In that way?<\/p>\n<p>And since when does marching with a group of people give you some sort of credibility? Again, Democrats depend on imagery &#8211; no substance. Marching in a large group of people doesn&#8217;t get you anything except photo ops. In fact, it&#8217;s comical that Obama thinks that he has more credibility with latins than his opponents who didn&#8217;t walk. I guess we know why he marched with them in the first place, don&#8217;t we.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t suppose Obama noticed that\u00c2\u00a0denouncing racism to a group that calls themselves The Race is pretty hypocritical.<\/p>\n<p>Almost as bad as Clinton II blaming the poor Bush economy for the venom in the immigration debate;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In remarks during a morning brunch, Mrs. Clinton said she has been trying &#8220;to understand where all of the venom and the incredible anxiety came from&#8221; in the immigration debate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very disappointed, and I was really quite offended by the tone of the debate and some of what was said by outside parties who were trying to influence the debate,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>She blamed the tone on what she called a poor economy under President Bush.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Until recently, I did not hear the kind of insecurity and opposition to bringing immigrants into American society as I hear today,&#8221; she said, adding that when her husband was in office, &#8220;people were too busy getting a better future for themselves.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, the economy that&#8217;s been growing at a faster rate than in the 1990s, the economy that has seen the lowest sustained\u00c2\u00a0unemployment rate ever in our history of keeping those statistics &#8211; as Larry Kudlow calls it &#8220;the greatest story never told&#8221;. More image over substance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love it when my posts become reality. 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