Posted by
Arnie on Monday, June 11, 2007 7:19:02 AM
Only one of the republican presidential candidates is doing much ‘reaching out” to the Hispanic community through their web sites, and/or other means of attracting Hispanic voters. Will this be the cause if the republican nominee is defeated? How much reaching out must be done? The democratic contenders are quite busy inserting Spanish translations on their web sites, and there even was a special debate between the two wannabes who do speak Spanish, “
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd, jumped at the opportunity this week to debate in Spanish on the Univision television network.”
For some reason, I was thinking that one had to be a US citizen to vote in our presidential elections, and that a certain command of English was necessary to earn citizenship. So what’s the big deal for these presidential hopefuls when all of the voters will be able to understand the English version of all the debates and policy issues important to the country? Citizens are the only ones who can vote, right? So reaching out to the 12 to whatever million of the illegal alien residents would be mute and fall on the ears of non voters. So what’s the big emphasis about anyway? It’s a big waste of money and effort.
Hillary has her web site translated into Spanish. Barack is providing closed captioning on his campaign videos. Mitt Romney on the GOP side is creating a Hispanic steering committee. Sam Brownback is taking Spanish lessons.
Besides, by the time the election happens, that 700 miles of fencing as voted for in the homeland security funding bill of last year will have been completed and the flow of illegals will have stopped. Right? Not quite. Only two miles of the 700 promised have been completed. Government does work slowly, and that can be good, but mostly it’s pretty poor performance. So that, by the time the election rolls around another million could have made their way into the heartland for jobs and forged documents.
The right to vote. The right to vote is not mentioned in the constitution as one of those inherent rights of citizens and/or “that men are created ……right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” It is not a right, but a privilege. But over the years it has become a right to vote, and has been established by decree and court rulings, and currently you must be a citizen, a legal resident of a state, and be 18 years old on the day of the election in order to register to vote in our national elections. So why the big fuss about getting all of those campaign promises translated into Spanish? Why spend so much time and money wooing non-residents and non-citizens who cannot understand English? Can forged documents be used as identification and thus the illegal will be granted the right to vote? Hmmmmm? Is this the reason for the reaching out to Hispanics? Just asking some questions here folks and not making any accusations. Wondering.
Could there possibly be a thought of, or plans of election fraud in the making? Could there be some plan to cry “racist” if the Hispanic non-citizens are denied the privilege to vote? Would the huge Hispanic bloc throw the upcoming presidential election into their court? Hmmmmm!
In 4, 8, or 12 years down the road a bit, the campaigners will be providing translations of their campaign promises in Arabic in order to reach out to the Muslim community.
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