CNN: McCain’s Immigration Ad Dead On Target, Obama’s Misses
More piling on by the pod person who, I can only assume, has temporarily replaced legendary illegals apologist Ruben Navarette.
“It started last week when the McCain-Palin campaign launched a Spanish ad that, translated, says: “[Barack] Obama and his congressional allies say they are on the side of immigrants. But are they? The press reports their efforts were ‘poison pills’ that made immigration reform fail. The result: No guest worker program. No path to citizenship. No secure borders. No reform. Is that being on our side? Obama and his congressional allies: Ready to block immigration reform, but not ready to lead.”
This week, the Obama-Biden campaign struck back with Spanish radio and TV ads in the heavily-Latino battleground states of Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico. Translated, the TV ad says: “They want us to forget the insults we’ve put up with, the intolerance. They made us feel marginalized in a country we love so much. John McCain and his Republican friends have two faces. One that lies just to get our vote, and another, even worse, that continues the failed policies of George Bush that put special interests ahead of working families.”
Stop the tape! The spots are hard-hitting, but only one hits the target. The McCain-Palin ad is accurate. But the Obama-Biden ad is riddled with problems.”
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Finally, as for feeling marginalized in a country you love, I have no doubt that many Latino immigrants do love this country, and they contribute enormously to it. Yet others treat it like an ATM, flout its laws, have no interest in becoming legal or a citizen, and — when they take to the streets — see no irony in demanding rights from one country while waving the flag of another. Guess what? Such things have a way of making you feel marginalized.”