The endless debates, Celebrity Hostage Draft, and today's items
The WaPo and the NYT are discussing the finessing of the cut-and-run party.
Which means they're discussing how they'll cut-and-run.
Anyway, Steven Green did a better job at PJM on the debate than any of the newspapers.
This morning they were showing on TV a clip of Edwards's referring to Hillary's cover on Fortune Mag, saying something to the effect that he'll never be the cover boy for big business: Plweeze. As if he's such a man of the people.
But that aside, had I been Hillary, after hearing that remark I'd have turned right around and told him that at least I won't be the Esquire cover girl for the sexiest woman alive:
I don't know about you all, but these so-called "debates" just grate. I don't care if it's the Democrats, the Republicans, or what. Besides, they're round-robin press conferences, not debates.
You argue that the volumes of oil being given to Fidel Castro are “small”, as compared to the amounts Venezuela has supplied to the U.S. for “one hundred years”, in occasions “a gift”. Let me tell you that Venezuela has never given away its oil as you do today. It always obtained money for its exports. The money coming from oil has often been wasted by governments, but never in greater amounts than today, under your regime. The only Venezuelan president that has given oil at great subsidies to U.S. citizens is you, through a program of “oil for the poor” that already costs us over $100 million and targets U.S. communities that have an average income ten times higher than the average income of millions of Venezuelans. You do it for political propaganda, at the expense of our real national needs.
As for the questions that were asked and the way they were answered by the candidates, the forum seemed to inadvertently reinforce the notion of minorities as victims -- besieged by everything from poverty to outsourcing to higher rates of HIV infection. A lot of the candidates then took the cue and played the role Democrats have carved out for themselves -- savior of the downtrodden and dispossessed.
To be fair, I think that most African-Americans would probably dismiss out of hand this "illegal-immigration-is-the-greatest-threat-since-slavery'' nonsense.
African-American writer Earl Ofari Hutchinson, who is doing a book about the relationship between blacks and Latinos, blasted the remark as an "eye-catching, over-the-top, outrageous bit of hyperbole." Although conceding that high unemployment rates disproportionately harm "young, marginal-skilled and educated black males," Hutchinson noted that illegal immigrants are but the latest targets of those looking for scapegoats - a strategy he called "wrongheaded, misguided and fraught with peril."
So true. So well said. And I suspect so unlike anything you'll hear from any of the Democratic presidential candidates.
Navarrete is too kind. I believe that the Democrat party is completely married to the idea that minorities are victims.
low skilled workers now legally employed in the US would be most directly affected by the annual influx of 200,000 temporary workers.
That is, all workers of all races that are now legally employed. Additionally,
The influx of cheap labor would have had a depressing effect on wages across the board, not just on unskilled labor. The costs and barriers entrepreneurs face in sponsoring labor from other countries would not have decreased since the bill would have imposed even more regulations. Many Hispanics entrepreneurs, like myself, were worried that such a large influx of unskilled labor might mean that domestic training in some skilled trades, such as construction, might decrease substantially. It would affect America's competitiveness.
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