Michael Benjamin, an Obama Supporter, Predicts Strong Support from Hispanics Here
Assemblyman Michael Benjamin is in South Carolina this weekend, campaigning for Barack Obama.
At 12:29 a.m. this morning, he emailed a dispatch from there to reporters, which explains, “Negative campaigning hurt more than the Clinton campaign's race-baiting,” and “HRC has not proved that she can attract more than 40% of the vote. I believe that NY Hispanics will turn to Obama in recognition of his steadfast support for immigration reform w/o demonizing immigrants and his plans for economic expansion.”
Michael Benjamin's dispatch from South Carolina:
My wife, Kennedy, and I arrived in SC on Friday. We found black and white Dems enthusiastic about Sen Obama. Restaurant wait staff, hotel workers and students expressed support for his message. Many said that he was a leader for their generation. Others expressed a feeling of betrayal given fmr Pres Clinton's attacks on Obama. Negative campaigning hurt more than the Clinton campaign's race-baiting. The few who were undecided or not an Obama supporter became Obama voters after Kennedy set them straight.
In NY, voters will be fired up. NY voters will vote their hopes, not their race, gender or fears. HRC has not proved that she can attract more than 40% of the vote.
I believe that NY Hispanics will turn to Obama in recognition of his steadfast support for immigration reform w/o demonizing immigrants and his plans for economic expansion.
NYers will not succumb to the Clinton's politics of triangulation. They will respond favorably to Obama's argument that the recession is the result of the war in Iraq and an administration in the pocket of lobbyists. The trade deals (e.g., NAFTA) that began under Bush 41 and continued under Bill Clinton (NAFTA II, most-favored nation status for Communist China, etc.) and worsened under Bush 43 have damaged our economic security. HRC is fully committed to the continued globalization (i.e., outsourcing of low skill jobs) of the American economy at the expense of our economic security.
NYers are fired up and ready to propel Sen Obama into the White House. Sen Obama will be more than competitive in Super Tuesday states like lL, CA, TX, NJ, and CT. His appeal to independents and Republicans, will continue in Midwestern and Western "red" states.
- Poll
- Obama (D)
- McCain(R)
- Spread
- RCP Average
- 46.9
- 43.3
- Obama +3.6
- Candidate
- Favorable
- Unfavorable
- Spread
- Obama
- 52.6
- 34.4
- +18.2
- McCain
- 51.2
- 34.2
- +17.0
NYT Editorial Board Endorsement --
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/editorial-board.html
I was surprised to read that two of the board members were appointed to high office, an ambassadorship for one, a special assistant to the president for another, by President Bill Clinton.
The NYT did NOT disclose this pertinent fact or whether they recused themselves.
Turn the page.
Of course Obama will attract the Hispanic vote. He's not shy about making it clear he will ignore the fact the majority of Americans rejected that amnesty plan disguised as "comprehensive reform" and will push for open borders. He isn't for illegal immigration reform. He's for justifying it.
I am soo...sick of African American Elected Officials taking the Latino ( not sure who these Hispanics are...) for granted.
The Latino community is desperate need of good leadership to represent its own unique needs.
MEXICAN ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION - REFORM CONSIDERATIONS
It is very economically advantageous to use cheap Mexican seasonal agricultural guest workers; it is very socially and economically disadvantageous to let them stay after the crop is harvested.
When seasonal guest workers do return to Mexico at end of the growing season, they return with money and experience, to contribute to the development of Mexico; and each year, when a new group of seasonal guest workers comes, they are eager to work for the same low non-citizen wages.
And, when they return to Mexico at end of the growing season, they do not drive down the wages of American workers, by competing for jobs in landscaping, construction, sanitation, and housekeeping; and they do not use American governmental social services.
Mexico is land rich in natural resources; what makes it so socially and economically poor are its Mexican People; and wherever they immigrate they bring their deplorable civilization with them. It is so inferior than none of them want to return to it.
The Mexican dream of regaining political control over Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California is America’s worst nightmare. Starting at all of the border towns, and spreading northward throughout America, like cancers, are thousands of deplorable Mexican neighborhoods.
With each deportation America looks, smells, and sounds less like socially and economically deplorable Mexico. America is presently occupied by 12-15 million Mexicans.
With the deportation of all the illegal immigrants, students will again be able to get good paying summer jobs, to learn responsibility and earn their way through college; blue-collar wages will rise; border towns will not be slums; Spanish will not be a second language; crime will go down; hospitals and prisons will not be overcrowded.
When seasonal guest workers come from all of the countries of Latin America, on a strict quota system, then every country benefits, not Mexico exclusively; and when they are well treated, the experience is mutually positive.
When all of the illegal aliens are deported, the Neo-Lib Democrats and Neo-Con Republicans will lose millions of political supporters, and the vast donations that they receive from the Mexican Lobby; and, those American businesses that exploit cheap Mexican labor will lose their illegal competitive advantages.
No rich superior civilization in the World can coexist side by side with a poor inferior civilization, without a great wall or fence, strict guest labor laws, armed border guards, and fines for hiring illegal aliens.