Originally Posted By skinnerbox Once again, Ann Romney opens her mouth and sticks her foot right in: <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/29/769081/ann-romney-wants-hispanic-voters-to-get-past-their-biases/" target="_blank">http://thinkprogress.org/elect...-biases/</a> <> Ann Romney Wants Hispanic Voters To Get Past ‘Their Biases’ By Aviva Shen on Aug 29, 2012 at 3:24 pm Fresh off her convention speech Tuesday night, Ann Romney spent Wednesday wooing two of the GOP’s toughest audiences: women and Hispanic voters. At a lunch event Wednesday, Romney explained why Hispanic voters should vote for her husband. Pitching herself as “the daughter of immigrants,” Romney (who is the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner) urged Latinos to get past “some of their biases” and come to their senses: You’d better really look at your future and figure out who’s going to be the guy that’s going to make it better for you and your children, and there is only one answer… It really is a message that would resonate well if they could just get past some of their biases that have been there from the Democratic machines that have made us look like we don’t care about this community. And that is not true. We very much care about you and your families and the opportunities that are there for you and your families. Hispanic voters have so far remained skeptical of Mitt Romney and the Republican Party, who stood out as the most anti-immigrant candidate during the Republican primary and touted a plan to make undocumented immigrants so uncomfortable that they would “self-deport.” He has also promised to veto the DREAM Act that would give young undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children a path to citizenship. Ann’s accusation of Democratic manipulation echoes comments made by Arizona governor Jan Brewer (R) earlier in the day, when she claimed Obama was “race-baiting” and pandering to Latinos. Ann also offered a recent trip to Puerto Rico as evidence of her ties to the Latino community: “I had the most rocking time in Puerto Rico at a political rally than I’ve ever had in my entire life. You people really know how to party. It was crazy!” <> Team Romney is clearly out of touch. She actually had the gall to suggest that Latinos need to get over their prejudices in order to see how much better Mitt and his policies are for them? It's THEIR fault for not seeing the big picture, i.e., that Romney's strong anti-immigration stance means he actually cares for Latinos? Romney openly admitted that he doesn't support the DREAM Act and wants undocumented young adults brought to this country as minors to be deported. Yeah, that's going to gain you a ton of support in the Latino community, Mitt, by endorsing the breaking up families and deportation of young Latinos who've lived most of their lives in the US. Lots of empathy right there for folks not like you. Unbelievable.
Originally Posted By crapshoot <<Ay caramba!>> I'm just not too worried about how the Hispanics vote. However, I am very concerned about how hurricane Isaac affects the BP oil flow residue. <<Isaac's high winds and rains, they speculate, could also stir up remnant crude oil from the BP's Deepwater Horizon spill -- exposing more residents and wildlife to its potentially toxic effects.>> <<"This is another disaster on top of the hurricane that we're going to have to deal with," Garret Graves, chairman of Louisiana's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, told The Huffington Post. "The threat is not insignificant.">>
Originally Posted By fkurucz Marie Antoinette didn't get it either. Really, why don't these "people" just sell their stock holdings to pay for food, healthcare and education? Or why not just borrow money from their parents to start a business?
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