Someone please tell me… how does one spell xenophobe?
And tell me again, just so I’ll be certain… what is racism?
Finally, just so I won’t forget… isn’t hypocrisy saying one thing, and doing the opposite?
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The GOP‘s Immigrants
By JASON L. RILEY
- POLITICAL DIARY
- September 1, 2012, 6:28 p.m. ET
Rare was the speaker at the Republican convention in Tampa this week who did not invoke his immigrant forebears, almost always described as poor or, at best, of modest means upon arrival to the U.S.
This is hardly surprising because we are not simply a nation of immigrants but overwhelmingly a nation people descended from immigrant strivers. The “huddled masses” of the 1800s and early 1900s were tired and poor, not Indian computer engineers and Chinese biochemists.
This point is worth making because although the Republican speakers were Read the rest of this entry »
