06 gusht 2010

A Good Season for Xenophobia

With few things left to criticize and with much promise for appeal to ball-suckers (today's epithet for teabaggers), the GOP has turned its attention to the document it touts as 'perfect' and 'immutable,' but also as 'flawed' when it so pleases its members. Their calls to repeal or amend the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment are just a desperate effort to garner votes before elections take place. Frustrations with illegal immigrants are legitimate and certainly worth addressing, but man, do they know how to amplify and inflate facts only to portray illegal immigrants as our biggest threat or thorn in our eye.

The New York Times is on it.

The NYT is equally—and justifiably—critical of Sarkozy's latest series of xenophobic measures. They are the latest in his attempts to secure a few votes from the extreme right, or to distract public opinion from his failures as Monsieur le Président.

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