Obama: a darker shade of pink (Part 2)

Nobody liked O's inauguration speech except the babbling diehards. It was full of apple pie and American motherhood with little content. It indeed espoused O's ideology of big government being responsible for all citizens by providing much more than just protection from foreign enemies.

 

 

We are rapidly heading deeper into a welfare state and those dependent upon government for jobs and handouts are ecstatic. Almost everyone on the right feels just the opposite as they vent their woe, worry and intense dislike of O on whomever is willing to listen.

 

The lack of content in O's speech, especially content having to do with our finances, economy and foreign policy was not the result of any lack of importance. On the contrary, O is petrified that any one of these areas could be his undoing and deprive him of the sterling presidential legacy he so reportedly covets.

 

 

Instead of coping with these matters head on, O's first effort after the inauguration was to tackle immigration issues. He is trying hard to cement the notion in the minds of Hispanic immigrants, the vast majority of whom are illegally here, that their salvation in terms of legal recognition will be bestowed by the Democratic Party.

 

Historically, the Democrats in the USA, or more precisely, members of political parties espousing the same principles as contemporary Democrats, have shamelessly wooed immigrants in an effort to secure their loyalties, especially at voting time.

 

 

As the party of minorities, Democrats have done a thorough job impressing immigrants with their dedication to human rights. This appealed to immigrants from Europe, Asia and Latin America in a big way.

 

 

Our Jewish population, for example, remains largely democratic in orientation for that very reason. A similar process is now being applied to illegal immigrants, especially those from the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America.

 

Meanwhile, in the Republican camp, just about everything possible was done to ensure white Americans that illegal immigrants were a blot on our demography and needed immediate dealing with including repatriation and strong border fences and controls.

 

 

A goodly number of white Americans swallowed this policy without reference to the fact that Hispanics, legal or il, were becoming systematically alienated by the political right.

 

 

As has been noted here and by many political analysts, this policy played directly into the hands of the Democrats who gleefully swept up the Hispanic voters and welcomed them into their fold.