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Monday, January 28, 2008

Beware The Foot Sandwich


But wait...after yesterday's stunning endorsement by the churning political machine behind The Great Plotnik World Headquarters, today's Morning Bag has an article about how Barack Obama is trying to woo California Latinos by coming out for that reprehensibly idiotic 'drivers licenses for illegal aliens' bill. That's the kind of mistake that can prove fatal later on. Hillary knew it and changed her mind.

One one hand, yes indeed, Obama's going to make stupid mistakes. If he's not smart enough to recognize it, he will lose support. But if he is alert, and intelligent, and not arrogantly thick headed, he will wake up and remove his foot from his mouth. Then that becomes one more reason to back him.

WAKE UP, BARACK! Nobody in North America, including half the Latinos at least, want illegals to have driver's licenses. You an ignore them, we've been doing that for years, but you can't sanction their illegality. It's a lose-lose for Obama, and we know the Repos will try to turn this into a combination plate of Willie Horton with Rice and Beans.

Can't you see the commercial: Mexican in cowboy hat, one hand on the steering wheel and the other on a bottle of tequila, weaving in and out of traffic, knocking off little blonde boys and girls as the radio blares out "Guadalajara Guadalajara!" Voiceover: "IF THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE, VOTE FOR THE SKINNY BLACK GUY." Karl Rove will come out of retirement for this.

Please, Barack: when life places your own foot in your mouth between two slices of bread, simply remove your foot. The bread will taste a lot better, trust us all on this.

7 Comments:

At 10:03 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes, "they" will get him for this and it won't play in the midwest, will it? I think we'll see a change of heart here before the national election. What a funny looking foot he has...

 
At 11:39 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

But wait -- what if we do say illegal aliens can register for a drivers' licenses? Part of the application involves giving your address. Wouldn't that create a database of illegal alien addresses? And then, if we're serious about deporting them, we know where they're living and the car they're driving.

However, I wonder how serious we are about deporting that segment of the labor force. And, if we benefit more than we don't from the "illegal" labor force, then why not enable them to obey the laws they can -- such as being licensed drivers?

 
At 12:24 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm with Hanky on this - I'm not convinced having some form of drivers license for illegals would be a bad idea. I think this is a really hard issue, but it's also not so black and white.

I do believe that supporting this issue is a potentially bad political career move though.

Nice graphic!

 
At 1:26 PM, Blogger DAK said...

Here's my logic: if you're illegal, what would motivate you to come to the DMV to get a license? The idea is to remain in the shadows, not to announce your identity to authorities whom you have no reason to trust.

Conversely, if you've already got a fake Juan Mendoza id card, how hard will a fake driver's license be to acquire? The law will never happen and it will be a failure if it does, no matter how well intentioned we are.

Look. Whether it's Barack or Hillary, we know many voters will be looking for some reason not to vote for either of them. Why give them that reason over something that doesn't really matter all that much? Aren't there more meaningful lines in the sand we can draw?

 
At 2:36 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

For me, it's a matter of wasting money. We have one arm of the government that reportedly tries to get rid of illegal immigrants. Then, we'll have another that will spend even more money for staff to process driver's licenses? It doesn't make any sense to me. Even if we use this new database for deportation, it would be a waste of resources.

Why not just make it easier for people to come here and work? Wouldn't that solve all of the problems?

Well, all of the problems except for world poverty, world hunger, corruption…

 
At 1:51 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Here's what I think: I have no idea.

xo,
MD

 
At 9:05 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm voting for the guy with the Nice Hair. Skinny Guy or Alligator Tears? Fuggedaboudit.

 

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