Racism, Illegal Immigration and Totally Changing America

by Col. Bob Pappas, USMC, Ret.

Despite some media talking heads’ best efforts to predict who the Republican nominee for President will be, recall that they were wrong in ’08 and are once again making fools of themselves. Likewise, it should be recognized that Democrats, like they did on ’08 are engaging in every underhanded and dirty action possible to select the nominee for Republicans. By massing their votes for McCain, they succeeded in nominating a person that the average Republican and Independent Conservative considered a moderate at best, if not a RINO. It was obvious who the left wanted the moment that “fair and balanced” New York Times endorsed the Senator from Arizona.

Yet, Senator John McCain was the recipient of my vote for three reasons: first, as a Navy Officer he fought for and paid the price in spades for this country, he bore the physical stripes on his body and endured both humiliation and unimaginable suffering for his loyalty to fellow POWs and all Americans (whether or not some of the latter deserved it); second, he wisely selected a conservative without whom the race would have been a voter wipeout because he alone was too moderate for most Republican and independent voters; and, third, because it was obvious to even the most casual observer of Candidate Barack Hussein Obama, the economic disaster that has materialized over the course of his tenure was bound to happen.

To reach the prescient foreknowledge of what an extremist Obama is and what a disaster he would be for America, all one had to do was read his book the title of which was “Dreams from my Father, a story of Race and Inheritance,” listen to his rhetoric in light of his book and examine his associations with American terrorist, Bill Ayers and his America(n) hating Pastor of twenty years, Jeremiah Wright. He painted himself as a unifier, oh? Really?! What did he do during his time as a South Chicago Community Organizer, Illinois Senator or U.S. Senator to ameliorate racial issues? How about ZERO? In case it has escaped my erstwhile leftist friends, the state of race relations in this nation is perceptibly and measurably lower since BHO came to office than any time since the Civil War which, for those on the left, that was one hundred fifty years ago. Whereas most Americans at worst had a “live and let live” attitude before his election, relations are now jaded by Obama’s racially polarizing attitude, the most recent invocation thereof being at the forum for Latino Heritage:

“I ran for President for the same reason many people came to this country in the first place: Because I believe America should be a place where you can always make it if you try; a place where every child, no matter what they look like (underline added), where they come from, should have a chance to succeed.”

He followed that by: “There are things we should do right now to put more people back to work and to restore a sense of security and fairness that's been missing for too long.” Come now, who would he be referring to with the insecurity and unfairness implication?  Wouldn’t be Latinos before whom he was speaking, would it?  Finally, Obama took a partisan shot at Republicans: “But apparently, none of this matters to Republicans in the Senate.” This last statement is racist, divisive and partisan at its lowest. Surprised? Given who and what he is, hardly.

One can and this writer does, love Latinos and still recognize that there are about 10 million of them living illegally in the U.S.A., unless of course, one is not allowed to note that “small little” detail. Should one mind? Only to the extent that illegal immigrants have violated the sovereignty of the U.S.; entered illegally; take work away from legitimate American citizens; are costing hundreds of billions of dollars annually, and are being supported in their endeavor by politicians, business owners and some individuals on both sides of the political divide who have the mistaken belief that it doesn’t matter because they only take work that American citizens don’t want or won’t perform.  That nonsense is about as true as “God Damn America” Jeremiah Wright, loving America.

Using various euphemisms, i.e. “undocumented workers,” and etc. to describe illegal immigrants’ presence and status is more nonsense.  When one hears or reads, “All they want is to improve their economic lot,” it begs the question as to why the Federal Government (i.e. Eric Holder and Barack Hussein Obama) does not enforce the law, U.S. sovereignty and arguably the Constitution against thousands of daily violations.  The fact is, illegal immigrants are a huge part of the unemployment problem in this country and should move or be moved back to their respective countries of origin.  Yet, every action by the Federal Government is about as duplicitous as Obama. On the one hand he asserts that he sends more back than his predecessor, while on the other hand advances legislation that is designed to keep them here while simultaneously circumventing the law through Executive Order to make them legal residents.

Being about as plain as one can be, if illegal immigrants were returned to their countries of origin, there would be no unemployment problem in the United States of America, the economy would rebound and the U.S. of A. could “re-open for business.” That is a fact! It’s hard to make a legitimate, no spin argument against it. But there’s more, illegal immigration is an integral part of Obama’s effort to “totally change America.” Think about it.

Semper Fidelis

Copyright ©  October 14, 2011, by Robert L. Pappas. With proper attribution, this essay may be quoted and redistributed, except it may not be used in conjunction with any advertisement without the author’s expressed written permission.