Obama Lies to Latinos About His Failure On 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform'

 

President Obama faced a fairly tough crowd when he appeared The Univision presidential forum at the University of Miami. And his attempt to pander to the largely Latino audience didn't quite go over so well.

There was a lot of gold nuggets to be mined,but here's an obvious one. When he was pressed on his failure to achieve comprehensive immigration reform ( whatever that actually is)President Obama took a typical dodge and blamed it on the Republicans.

Host Jorge Ramos wasn't impressed saying, “You promised that, and a promise is a promise. “And with all due respect, you didn’t keep that promise.”

President Obama's response? To treat the Latino audience like ignorant school children and lecture them on separation of powers!

“There’s the thinking that the president is somebody who is all-powerful and can get everything done,” Obama responded. “In our branch, in our system of government, I am the head of the executive branch. I’m not the head of the legislature, I’m not the head of the judiciary. We have to have cooperation from all these sources in order to get something done. So I am happy to take responsibility for the fact that we didn’t get it done, but I did not make a promise that we would get everything done, 100 percent when I was elected as president.”

Pray tell me, what is he doing now but enforcing the DREAM Act unilaterally, by executive order?

It gets better. When asked what he considered the biggest failure of his presidency, what was his response? To blame Congress and the Republicans!

“As you remind me, my biggest failure is that we haven’t gotten comprehensive immigration reform done,” he said. “So we’re going to be continuing to work on that. But it’s not for lack of trying or desire.”“As you remind me, my biggest failure is that we haven’t gotten comprehensive immigration reform done,” he said. “So we’re going to be continuing to work on that. But it’s not for lack of trying or desire.”

Of course it was a lack of desire. Need we be reminded that for the first two years of his presidency, Barack Obama had a veto proof Democrat majority in both houses of congress? He could have gotten anything he wanted passed,including a life size gold statue of himself on the White House lawn. Instead, he concentrated on looting the treasury for the benefit of his cronies with a bogus stimulus bill and shoving ObamaCare down a disapproving nation's throat.Oh, yes, and lots of golf.

President Obama had no interest in anything like comprehensive immigration reform or Latinos until after th e2010 midterms when he saw his plans for re-election would be jeopardized.Then, all of a sudden, he started pandering to Latinos and spouting the phrase 'comprehensive immigration reform' like there was no tomorrow.

Will Latinos be fooled by this cynical ploy. Some will, undoubtedly. But others looking at the dismal economy and this president's failures in the Middle East and elsewhere are going to be smart enough to look beyond the easy slogans and think twice. 

Another thing I might mention...it's no accident that a lot of the questions at the forum concerned Libya and the Middle East. A lot of Latinos serve in the military, are vetranos or are related to ones who are and have surprisingly old fashioned views when it comes flag and country. And there are a lot more of them than you might think.