"If a GOP candidate sought votes from a white group calling itself the 'National Council of the Race,' he'd rightly be shunned as a racist. But let Democrats do the same and they're called 'progressive.' The difference, of course, is that in the latter case both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were appearing before the National Council of La Raza ("The Race"), a radical Latino group. Trolling for votes, Obama pandered to La Raza's convention in Miami over the weekend, selling himself as one who marched alongside Latinos at last May 1's illegal immigrant amnesty rallies," says Investors Business Daily in an editorial. "But rather than either of these campaign tacks being political gaffes, both got favorable media coverage because the Latino community supposedly has been 'galvanized' over the loss of the Senate immigration bill. It signaled that Obama, like Clinton, buys into the idea that the bill's end was brought on by what La Raza calls a 'wave of hate' and that other American voters won't notice. The irony is that La Raza is no ordinary organization. The name, in English, literally 'the race,' is something its embattled apologists now claim means 'every race' or 'community' -- both absurd, since they both mean just the opposite of the actual word."
2007-07-24
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