Oooops! Looks like he accidentally went off script again.

Gee, I'm sorry, 180 years ago we threw down and you lost! But hey, no hard feelings, here's your land back that we won.

/sarc

I have ancestors who arrived in Virginia almost 350 years ago and I am not an immigrant. I was born here. It's not a hard concept to grasp. That I was born within the boundaries of this nation makes me an American citizen, but even if this weren't a nation, I would still not be an immigrant to the continent.

Where's Obama's nuance on this issue? Like a clearer statement that many of us are descendants of immigrants. I guess nuance doesn't serve well when you're pandering.

Obama, I understand, is very popular with La Raza (The Race). If he's elected look for plenty of sombrero-wearing in the Cabinet.

Obama constantly wants to say things that are against American interests, and then complains that people question his love and patriotism for America. Go figure. You reap what you sew. If you sew hate and discontent, then do not be suprised that you end up hated and people are discontented with you.

Sounds like he was pandering to the Native American vote. Maybe he's ready to apologize for the Buffalo Soldiers to them, huh? [No disrespect meant by ME to the Buffalo Soldiers].

I smell both amnesty and reparations....

OK, where do I file for hunks of land in England and Scandanavia? (I'm also entitled, by this precedent, to some land in France, but they can keep that.)

J.

Practically every time Obama speaks I am reminded of Nikita Kruchev's warning from so many years ago: "We [leftists] will destroy you from within."

Of course what the author left out ( no surprise that) was what Obama went on to say which was that illegal immigration was a problem which needs to be addressed.

I'd say it was more the author and her fellow righties going all xenophobic - as is the usual custom here - than Obama going reconquista.

Living in New Mexico makes me see why he felt cozy enough to verbalize his constant disgust with America.

Within 40 miles of my home I have 2 border patrol checkpoints...these are really only for drug intervention. Rarely do many illegals get returned compared to the numbers who stay. As a bird flies I am extremely close to the border. Those crossing do believe that this is their right. Their government gives maps and info on where to go, what programs are available and the likes.

Perhaps I am cynical? Yep, as the border is no longer anything but a faint line on a map(heading north).If one is heading south, then it does exist.

Guess what BO, the tribes that are here weren't the first ones here either. Most of them wiped out the "Natives" after crossing into North America.
Not to mention that the surviving tribes were the ones who conquered everyone else. Typically by completely wiping out their "enemies" or killing the men and taking the women.
The Mexicans sure as Hell weren't here first! They conquered the lands through expansion just like everyone else has.

Yes this nation is built on immigrants, but there is a differrence my great grand parents came thru the proper channels not illegally. Plus I do have some Native America Indian blood in, does that help me? Is Obama really a American or just pretend to be so he can destroy America and for what we stand for.

I love how in Victim Culture the Native Americans are allowed to drape themselves in the myth they were the Red Amish - Noble humans in touch with nature and the spiritual world. Bullsomething! They used up resources, fought wars, took slaves, were capable of a bit of savagery, and there might have been cannibalism in the SW. I'm sorry they lost and all that, but they should have assimilated into the melting pot a long time ago.

Obama went on to say which was that illegal immigration was a problem which needs to be addressed.

Yeah, "addressed" by massive amnesty and basically opening the border. Not, mind you, even on any sort of principle, but because it would let in hundreds of thousands of guaranteed welfare-state Democrat voters.

"I'd say it was more the author and her fellow righties going all xenophobic - as is the usual custom here - than Obama going reconquista"

As usual, JFO focuses like a laser beam and reveals us for what we are. We're soooo ashamed.

Earth to Lawyer The post was about Obama's pandering while subjugating the country, which he routinely does. Stay on topic.

JFO has not comprehension or ability to understand a point on a post. Never did, never will. Obama is being shown as the empty suit he is. ww

"I'd say it was more the author and her fellow righties going all xenophobic - as is the usual custom here - than Obama going reconquista"

Ah yes, we've gone and gotten all xenophobic after all the talk about our own ancestors of many nationalities. And JFO accused me of ad hominem attacks? In my neck of the woods we call that 'projection'.

Actually if illegal immigration is a big issue for you, you should vote for Obama. After a couple years of President Obama and a leftist congress the illegals will be running back to Mexico and central America to find jobs and feed their families. Sadly many Americans will have to do the same...

emerson wrote: "I'm sorry they lost and all that..."

I'm not. I glad the Europeans won. I'm glad that the the Europeans, from which I'm descended, tamed this land and created the nation that is now the United States. I offer no apologies for having the better technology, etc., that gave the victory to the colonists.

That said, I am ashamed of the deceit and broken treaties of the 19th century--that is not how a nation behaves with honor. However, that is history, not the present, and I'm not prepared to support any revisionist accounts or attempts of "reparations." Reparations are paid by the LOSERS to the winners, remember?

If the "border crossed them", they became citizens when that happened, no? Since the borders haven't moved in several generations, I fail to see how this applies to the current crop of illegal aliens. Are we to believe there are currently people in the US as a result of our borders shifting?

This slogan simply defies logic. This sort of populism may work well with uneducated third world illiterates; it sounds catchy. But nonsense is still nonsense, catchy or not.

Last time I checked, all those "native" Americans walked here from Siberia, so I'm kind of confused by this nonsense.