My wife is of Ulster-Scot descent, including on one side a slight Dutch-Cherokee mix, and is a Stephens College business grad inter alia whose heroes remain Queen Elizabeth II and Jean Kirkpatrick; she spent much of yesterday telling me it's not my style to be politically or lawfully inert just because in past some have tried to kill, maim, or use Courts against me on account of truth or views, that I would not be happy with myself ever again if I shut up especially (SHE told ME) "in Illinois where NOBODY ever does anything to ANYBODY, you just imagine it or work in cahoots with strangers", and that I would not be the man she married and is happy with were I to not at least stay with Conservatives through this year's elections...in that spirit, and while we still plan to go elsewhere by this Fall, I will stay involved through the election.
 
I see at my email today Obama is going to have three thousand "we worship YOU for change" gatherings this Saturday; he claimed to have as many last Summer, but outside Chicago most seemed to have no more than the neighborhood organizer attend; maybe huge crowds all at once across America will be flashed by all media, together with "change" specifics.
 
Two other things seem more interesting as Obama reaches out with nebulous "change" palavers...Mayor Daley, after at least ten years, has finally noticed Chicago porches fall apart on first use, most folks today with crummy porches are new immigrants, and is going to nail those "right-wingers" who built and own them; and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan (D) is going to start suing Countrywide inter alia mostly for immigrants and slightly for nationals re giving them homeloans and expecting them to pay without having work ( which Obama will tell you itself is due to all this xenophobic and nationalistic racism because too MANY jobs exist; q.v., must go green for global warming, as long as it doesn't involve work or land to produce own fuels or alternatives against U.N. LOST wishes).
 
You know, in re consumer credit protection here, one institutionalized thing with Chicago and Illinois Democrats is the practice of doing away with centuries-old doctrines hich make employers and those serve by contractors liable for acts and omissions of their agents; e.g., I have a Court order which requires Mid America to give good references on any inquiry ever-after, but Mid America filed for sheriff door knock-down after first seeing we had all possessions and ourselves moved into Oregon; you catch them on that or anyting else re CRAs, all they have to do is say "they didn't intend their agents, lawyers, or contracted services to do that", ditto can anyone say including your employers, and just like ab initio, Courts and Madigans feel it would be unfair to then have a proper party sign a reference or relevant verification and present it to you through them as part of any record. Correlatively, although a shopbook entry in usual course, unsigned CRA printouts are deemed "hearsay" if a CRA tells the State or a Court "not MINE!"...and anyone saying it is or that's what they got? Oh, more evidence of a vast, right-wing conspiracy trying to gain political advantage, ignore them.
 
As to Illinois Democrats and Attorney General consumer credit protection over actual matter, like Daley on the sub-State level with his porches or anything else, Madigan excels at winning suits, which always have deadlines for victims to contact her for settlement shares, but too often, wouldn't you know, so many people just never get in touch with her office in a timely or well-documented fashion; comes to mind the victory Madigan won a few years ago re Household: like the one my wife got, tons of folks around late 2000 et seq got bulk-mailed live checks in amounts of thousands of dollars, which enticed them to cash it and use money for anything at all, or tear up and throw out if they didn't want it; yep, wouldn't you know, my wife and I then living in Nashville TN, no matter what proofs of content and mailings and relevant contact attempts we had, doggone it!! We were just to stupid, lazy, or both to get a "timely" claim in, just like all the other sluggards obviously working with Bush and McCain in a vast right-wing conspiracy to make good folks look bad.
 
So anybody gets a settlement entitlement via Madigan, maybe videotape what you do to timely comply and put it on Youtube or whatever as backup; wouldn't want to have your USPS proofs called part of a vast conspiracy, would you?
 
As to porches and Obama as the Lord Of Job Creation: Um, 287g also works here such that you round up as many immigrants as you set up in homes, in election years "round up and get out of town" all those "illegals" a vast conspiracy let in, put up cinder block and facade quickie little warehouses and store fronts which then remain eternally "for sale" as proof of attracting commerce and jobs, move all the "287 g roundups" to a town or State a little farther away from town than most folks go, build so many exurbanite New Urban communities with crummy porches and all, the mind reels how commerce (or structural perfection) can possibly compete with new super-fast build ups of such communities. Ususally, in "off" years, new immigrants go to the old town as nationals lose homes, process of packing 287 g's elsewhere repeats, easy election, easy big paychecks for officials...nobody gets work, equity becomes more political will than money or dignity.
 
Something to think about as Democrats eye HR 1955 to quash nationals AND immigrants to make mainstream lives for those demanding jihad against the USA or anyone else ala Atta and 9/11, instead of constraining them abroad as Bush does.
 

Our response to terrorism cannot be confined to a set of security measures. We must also examine our capacity to respond to attacks and focus on the prevention of terrorism and terrorist recruitment. Prevention must include fighting root causes of terrorism such as social exclusion, poverty, inequality and discrimination and political resentment.

The Madrid agenda is right to stress that "While poverty is not a direct cause of terrorism, economic and social policy can help mitigate exclusion and the impact of rapid socioeconomic change, which give rise to grievances that are often exploited by terrorists".

Fighting the root causes of terrorism must be based on promotion of universal values. This means upholding the civil liberties of all, promoting social inclusion, fighting discrimination and pursuing the better integration of minorities and migrants.

A European approach to social inclusion

We have recently seen growing social unrest in several European countries. In this age of globalisation, debate about welfare reform and a stronger European social model is closely linked to social inclusion.

In recent decades, EU member states have had different approaches to the integration of people living on the edges of society. While this has produced substantial improvement in living conditions and recognition of citizenship rights for some, new generations now face new forms of disillusionment. In most European towns and cities, these new generations experience the contradiction between successful cultural and civic integration and the perception of growing social and economic marginalisation.

Our duty as European social democrats is to set out political solutions to these new challenges. We begin with some reflection on different national experiences and promoting best practice to find new ways of promoting economic and social inclusion and equality.

A European strategy should be founded on two principles:

1. Inclusion begins not only with recognition of fundamental rights and citizenship rights, but when people really exercising these rights.
2. Fighting discrimination and promoting equal opportunities – in particular in education, training and employment – should be a cornerstone of all policies.

Promoting and developing the integration of minorities and migrants

The London attacks led to new political initiatives and a wide-ranging public debate about how to strengthen community cohesion and speed up integration.

Although all individuals have the same fundamental rights, causes of exclusion often build up. Victims of ethnic discrimination often have poor access to housing and education. This in turn threatens their job chances, bringing a real risk of exclusion from mainstream society. This lack of opportunity can help terrorist recruitment.

The EU must therefore make full use of its wide-ranging powers against discrimination. We insist on full respect for Article 13 of the Treaty and full implementation of European law in all member states.

Finally, the EU must actively promote civil and political rights, for failure to integrate and empower migrants can also help terrorist recruitment. The EU must set minimum standards for integration, such as civil and political rights, including the right to vote. " (End of EU PSE citation)

 

PSE is sort of the "muscle" for the EU, works most usually with U.N. types like Doudou Diene; the USA is always automatically assumed to be a population from which NO national or non-extremist, non-Socialist thereto immigrant may travel into PSE's world. Read for yourselves on PSE at their own site: http://www.socialistgroup.eu/gpes/media/documents/47230_47230_terrorism_fin_070710_en.pdf .

 

Obama has a lot of pols and activists rooting for him, but only like he's going to include all these folks, straight or gay, citizens or not in the 2008 Presidential election (or at least no-trail votomatics will); the only "change" so far pre-DNC Convention appears to be a shut-up/shut off forever case-closer that the USA WILL arrange as a Socialist oligarchy as the European Union and its friends demand (and would not otherwise have).

 

But, who talks anymore about Obama or for that matter his running mate (oh, that's right...he doesn't need one!)...on that point, McCain fares no better. The reason for this media was kind enough to excuse replays of Obama speeches, Democrat LOST/HR 1955/DREAM/LA offering to pay extremists, and so forth, meaning in such vacuum ANYBODY grinning and saying "change!" might be worth a shake; since USA politicians and officials are content to wait until the DNC and GOP Conventions to state what their ideas of change and progress and security are, your ol' curmudgeon and very interested USA citizen is on vacation until August 22, 2008, the tentative start of the DNC Convention (GOP tentatively starts Labor Day)...besides, even Congress.org has taken to using can't-read anti-robots on ALL letters to leaders til then, and Associated Press is crying that it will sue anyone who uses its video IF its video even if showing acta of officials and candidates.

 

Our response to terrorism cannot be confined to a set of security measures. We must also examine our capacity to respond to attacks and focus on the prevention of terrorism and terrorist recruitment. Prevention must include fighting root causes of terrorism such as social exclusion, poverty, inequality and discrimination and political resentment.

The Madrid agenda is right to stress that "While poverty is not a direct cause of terrorism, economic and social policy can help mitigate exclusion and the impact of rapid socioeconomic change, which give rise to grievances that are often exploited by terrorists".

Fighting the root causes of terrorism must be based on promotion of universal values. This means upholding the civil liberties of all, promoting social inclusion, fighting discrimination and pursuing the better integration of minorities and migrants.

A European approach to social inclusion

We have recently seen growing social unrest in several European countries. In this age of globalisation, debate about welfare reform and a stronger European social model is closely linked to social inclusion.

In recent decades, EU member states have had different approaches to the integration of people living on the edges of society. While this has produced substantial improvement in living conditions and recognition of citizenship rights for some, new generations now face new forms of disillusionment. In most European towns and cities, these new generations experience the contradiction between successful cultural and civic integration and the perception of growing social and economic marginalisation.

Our duty as European social democrats is to set out political solutions to these new challenges. We begin with some reflection on different national experiences and promoting best practice to find new ways of promoting economic and social inclusion and equality.

A European strategy should be founded on two principles:

1. Inclusion begins not only with recognition of fundamental rights and citizenship rights, but when people really exercising these rights.
2. Fighting discrimination and promoting equal opportunities – in particular in education, training and employment – should be a cornerstone of all policies.

Promoting and developing the integration of minorities and migrants

The London attacks led to new political initiatives and a wide-ranging public debate about how to strengthen community cohesion and speed up integration.

Although all individuals have the same fundamental rights, causes of exclusion often build up. Victims of ethnic discrimination often have poor access to housing and education. This in turn threatens their job chances, bringing a real risk of exclusion from mainstream society. This lack of opportunity can help terrorist recruitment.

The EU must therefore make full use of its wide-ranging powers against discrimination. We insist on full respect for Article 13 of the Treaty and full implementation of European law in all member states.

Finally, the EU must actively promote civil and political rights, for failure to integrate and empower migrants can also help terrorist recruitment. The EU must set minimum standards for integration, such as civil and political rights, including the right to vote. " (End of EU PSE citation)

 

PSE is sort of the "muscle" for the EU, works most usually with U.N. types like Doudou Diene; the USA is always automatically assumed to be a population from which NO national or non-extremist, non-Socialist thereto immigrant may travel into PSE's world. Read for yourselves on PSE at their own site: http://www.socialistgroup.eu/gpes/media/documents/47230_47230_terrorism_fin_070710_en.pdf .

 

Obama has a lot of pols and activists rooting for him, but only like he's going to include all these folks, straight or gay, citizens or not in the 2008 Presidential election (or at least no-trail votomatics will); the only "change" so far pre-DNC Convention appears to be a shut-up/shut off forever case-closer that the USA WILL arrange as a Socialist oligarchy as the European Union and its friends demand (and would not otherwise have).

 

But, who talks anymore about Obama or for that matter his running mate (oh, that's right...he doesn't need one!)...on that point, McCain fares no better. The reason for this media was kind enough to excuse replays of Obama speeches, Democrat LOST/HR 1955/DREAM/LA offering to pay extremists, and so forth, meaning in such vacuum ANYBODY grinning and saying "change!" might be worth a shake; since USA politicians and officials are content to wait until the DNC and GOP Conventions to state what their ideas of change and progress and security are, your ol' curmudgeon and very interested USA citizen is on vacation until August 22, 2008, the tentative start of the DNC Convention (GOP tentatively starts Labor Day)...besides, even Congress.org has taken to using can't-read anti-robots on ALL letters to leaders til then, and Associated Press is crying that it will sue anyone who uses its video IF its video even if showing acta of officials and candidates.

 

Remember Barack Obama of the 2004 DNC Convention Keynote speech? As shown at  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awQkJNVsgKM , 5:06 to end, he said no USA citizens should have knocks on doors, all should have votes counted, there is more to do for USA NATIONALS, nobody expects government to solve problems, they don't want welfare waste, and even welfare people want off it.
 
Then at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UDKXKGZ3PY , 2:56 to 3:04, Obama says the only way, however, to fix things is for Democrats to embrace a mentality that (for a period?), that they are their brothers' and sisters' keepers...so at same link at 4:08-4:12, when Obama said Democrats don't want FEDS participating in PATRIOT -like stuff, judging by 2007 Democrat idea HR 1955 viewable at http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1955/show inter alia, Obama just meant only States and Towns should have gerrymandered say-so detention of ANYONE as Mayors and such deem fit and there ought not be a thing any Fed or President or Justice Department or Supreme Court can do about it...heck, Democrats ALREADY use immigration code subsection 287g like a PATRIOT club without trials, why not add citizens as homegrowns if a Mayor or whoever thinks folks would get touchy about re-arranging housing, costs, immigration, whatever, for "public treasury profits", U.N. appeasement(s), or both?
 
Something to think about, because back then Obama said we...all races and walks together...worshipped the same awesome God, yet does that match with today's Obama and his Chicago-based religious enthusiasts? The way some and Obama now talk, it's like while they raise all taxes (and local ones to make up volume lost to new Fed taxes), bring jihadists to Los Angeles or at least pay off foreign Muslims susceptible to extremism ( http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-11-08-muslims_N.htm ), and call non-New Age Christians and ALL unchurched bitter clingers to an old American idealism, PATRIOT should NOT watch foreign parties entering USA and ANYONE here for bona fide AUMF terrorism, sub-Federals just need to seal bat whoever in their totalist stagecraft of local social programming...via HR 1955 and 287g.
 
It really DOES seem, and Conventions surely will clear up, that Democrats adore the totalism and immigration and trade stylings Bush hasn't interrupted, it's just that they think Democrats and States should use such power for themselves on anything that makes their rodomontades fly...sort of re stinky work, don't remove the warts criticized, remove the pesty, uppity, full of overblown self-worth citizen and business critics.
 

The Scotty-Five Thousand Pyramid "sell my book" gameshow rapid clues ( to the flutey tune 'clicking' away sixty seconds ala the relevant old gameshow ): "Um, Bush lied about even non-Qaeda in Iraq", "Um, Bush uses propoganda and actually TRIES to beat AUMF subjects", "Um, Plame WAS outted even if she HAD as public CIA job and rode buses to it", you get the idea.
 
Well, no...even if the stuff some prate on and on and on and on and on WERE true, because all they can say is "we stink, sure, but McCain...McCain WILL be Bush who's got to be stopped from not appeasing the U.N. like WE would by the way no matter costs or sovereign dissolution save for public paycheck$ for being U.N. overseers leaving Husseins, Ladens, Hamas, Chavez, brutal economies and dictators in place, et al...McCain MUST be derailed we tell you, MUUUUSSSSSTTTTTT!!!!!". See, George W. Bush is the ex-President noon Eastern time January 20, 2009, so most folks today care how the next President will view the USA economy, sovereignty, respect for personal dignity, and best ways to aid folks beset by bad foreign economic managers, terrorists, dictators, and combinations thereof. 
 
I saw on here local cable media the other day that some Chicago college students were upset because Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley was coming to speak at their commencement; it was said the students found him "mundane", with media then admonishing students that Mayor Daley is thought of very highly by populations abroad, one assumes including online communities, especially due to the jobs and farming he's brought to Chicago and Illinois...one presumes any un- or under-employed Chicagoans or Illinoisans are just then slackers, on evidence of well, just look at the skyline, doesn't it LOOK like more than converted offices?
 
So unless Mayor Daley is a racist, part of a right-wing conspiracy, or both, anybody a Democrat or related party pronounces a slacker kid or immigrant is one because there is, ala 1960's Professor Richard Hofstaedter, no reason to question a Democrat or liberal opinion, just be diagnosed as whatever kind of pervert or psychotic would go against obvious "sense of evidence".
 
Which brings up an interesting set of musings in re the barrage of "racist" and "right-wing conspiracy" hammerblows flying around Democrat campaign camps these days...what if such a then-resultant Presidency went about helping the majority or better STATE LEGISLATURES (which actually elect via electoral college non obstante popular vote) who had chosen  him or her, not to even have a military or Guard to command anymore, but to swat in their stead anyone of ANY race who was deemed "racist" or "right-wing", or not interfere with States "doing what it takes" to deal with issues, or both?
 
In such hypothetical Presidency, appeasing the U.N. or at least looking like it is the end-all, be-all of elitist wealth and power; HR 1955 and then more such say-so powers would be used to take any nationals, immigrants, or both who didn't fit or approve of "today's U.N. money-draining paradigm" on any given day of any coming year as "racists" or "right-wingers" or "non-Whites in servile obedience to same" or "non-Whites who don't like the NEW crop of non-Whites who have to be set up here in New Urbanism, like in their home nations but in the immigrant-friendly USA".
 
You could even sell it by saying, for example, if you speak Spanish as native language or hate Christians, an anti-racist, anti-right-winger Presidency would stomp on every White, every Uncle Tom, and every Tio Tomas and slacker kid or immigrant  to get you into the USA and set up in the inexhaustible wealth of the USA...hey, those nationals, slackers, and the servile to them had their chances, but even teachers, public payrolelrs, welfare recipients, police, medical, spouses, parents, what have you, have been found to be up to online porn, verbal abuse, what have you...they've forfeited their chance permanently, now get in here foreign populations so you can WORK and be all you can be with YOUR chance.
 
But as the population of diverse immigrants would swell and swell, more and more businiess and farm land would have to go, less and less space for oil drilling, biodiesel and ethanol production available, more reliance on foreign dictators and totalists for same at higher and higher prices, lower quality, or both, and cheesier and cheesier public healthcare predicated on contraception, homosexual activity, and abortion as the best path to child healthcare; and you'd wind up "proving" commerce online via something like putting up whole cheaply made business parks and buildings, to get them uploaded to say Google Earth where they could stay until "for sale or lease" signs rotted, and in farm and other areas...just forget to upload changes to online mapping systems. Maybe private or public or both prisons could mushroom too, just don't upload them to mappers.
 
For now, that's all just speculation...one sees the other week polls saying the economy topped even Iraq re voters, and since it's been "Bush lied about possible Qaeda ties and forget that he disrupted non-Qaeda business Al Gore And Durbin 1992 forward said Hussein was committing", "FORGET Qaeda is separate from Iraq AUMF", and "America's nothing but a bunch of racists and right-wingers in conspiracy"....at a time Doudou Diene, U.N. rapporteur, is in the USA preparing a report examing the USA as "racist, xenophobic, and nationalistic" for not taking more immigrants ad infinitum, and some Conservatives ask "why DO so many permanently have to leave their economies and homes and farms and families in the first place?". And it appears Democrats at the moment say it's bad to go even to Darfur to spread democracy, just airlift the population into the West and leave the nice genocidal dictator alone ( which is why they only feign upset over previously saying Hussein starved and killed and his people...the U.N. might be touchy).
 
The U.N. seems ready to yap about and confound the USA, its pols, people, immigrants, assets at home abroad, no matter WHAT route anybody takes here; I look forward to the quadrennial Conventions and Fall campaigns and debates to shed light, if any, upon the issue of why the USA economy with or without Iraq is not of the slightest consequence for any level of governmental elections.
 

Re MoveOn PSA today re John Hagee re Jews responsible for holocaust:

I forwarded email copy of said PSA to RNC, which PSA represents link to petition demanding McCain renounce Hagee (p.s.- PFAW et al back to allegations racist GOP will keep people from voting for an Af-Am candidate this Fall); finding such things meaningless to what one will do in office and HAS done or failed to do WITH OWN VOTES, or voice (Obama HAS said Qaeda was innocent of 9/11, and Obama DOES say Judeo-Christian religious views DO provoke Islam and that we'll have less terror with a neutered Christ and less Messianic-causing Jewish faith...hey, that's what Europe's been saying since 1976, like Carter, and boy weren't THEY right), I added the within following to said PSA:

"Did you know...some of the people who live in my County are criminals? Did you know I probably gave them the time of day from my watch once, or stood in a line at the same theater? Do you know how many even escaped killers have wound up in Mayor Richard M. Daley's office (notably, that "consultant" for years who was an escaped killer for decades from Massachussettes)? Do you know how many scum try to obfuscate corporate names as pieces of filed paper, just to donate to ALL candidates, propositions, PACs, just to play all bases/set up someone? Do you know how many folks would say anything for a $$$$ guest fee, no matter how low or high their status nor issue at hand? In a word, you couldn't vote for anyone at all if this or that parallel inference were to influence you...ask Obama and his "realtor pals" or Hillary and her "Asian friend...ahhhhh, Hsu!". But this must mean what with 3 out of 4 folks STILL unhappy with the Democrat agenda Obama would not oppose (heck, he didn't even show up 90% of the time to OPPOSE anything at all), MoveOn et al are struggling to maintain a toehold; I would at least respect Democrats if they relied on the meat of things this Convention/Fall, and didn't ask us to go down wholly irrelevant matters; myself, I continue to stand by the Conservative philosophy."

I got so teary, watching Carlos Mencia on Comedy Central last night...he had a stage where puppets and people acted out how incredibly third-world Mexico, Latin America, and other places are, places with poor sanitation and no food and no healthcare and bare feet, on and on it went...with Mecia otherwise commenting the economy in the USA will only be "bad" when Mexicans stop wanting to come here; and then I got even tearier, watching some save or feed the children ads in re South Africa and non-Darfur nations.
 
Then remembering a Conservative bucks up and looks at situations, even a crisis, with stoic logic and judicial inquiry, I thought back how that blogger caught a Bush National Guard record that had text not even producible until decades after Bush was out of the service; I paid keener attention to those save/feed ads, and maybe it's just me, but they seem to be loops of the same kids a decade or more ago.
 
I then thought how sure...back in the 1960's when Ted Kennedy was touring Latin America and thence convinced ever-after Latin Americans, dictators or not, manage their economies against their own people in reflex to palsy somehow caused by the USA economy, much of that decades-worth of bloviation based on the Senator's and admirers' opinions on facts they don't really lay out; okay, say back in the '60's we just wanted to help out whoever couldn't make it in Mexico or wherever...back then, we had a huge industrial-military complex helping run a Free World thrive against advances of Eastern Communism, and really we just got the under-educated types like Congress likes to bait for ("unskilled", THEY say) in majority although professionals were welcome too.
 
But the USA of 2008 is about as 180 degrees different in terms of small business opportunity, grant opportunity, artistic opportunity, cultural diversity expressions in architecture and in leisure, and so on...we seem to be this homogeneous New Urban landscape no longer even farming our own food.
 
I then sampled to see if anybody out there disagreed with Mencia about Latin America, Mexico, or Africa; I sampled at http://www.visitmexico.com/wb2/, http://www.think-venezuela.net/, http://www.turismo.gov.ar/eng/menu.htm, http://www.visit-chile.org/splash.php, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=brazil+tourism, http://www1.southafrica.net/cultures/sv-se/satdefault.southafrica.net/, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=zambia+tourism, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=nigeria+tourism ...you get the idea. I was in search of this great, vast third world ALL immigrants States, Cities, and Congress Members in amorphous combinations thirst for come from; but all I could find was apparent managed economies doing, on visuals, at least as well as most USA tourist and community emplacements under our own New Urbanism...what if just like here where many nationals highly and lowly educated find themselves in the same boats, many other nations just don't know what to do with their surplus nationalized human capital?
 
The wish for not citizenship but walkabout amnesty is compassionate, but only if there's something ANY immigrant COULD run home to but for third-world problems; amnesty or citizenship, if they're here to stay period, will the non-Western Hemispheres and Mid East fatwa doodlers shower us with power to have quality private healthcare and housing at affordable prices, quality low-cost food, or gasoline and fossil fuels, and no need for a stress of variable public's Big Brother, HR 1955/FISA/PATRIOT layering of government re immigrants AND nationals? A quick scan at the media and every gas station on my route today says "apparently not".
 
Wherefore, as some in Congress love to nitpick on need to investigate each other for arcane deals, or tell us symptoms of perceived attrition (e.g., marry your own gender if you have to, abort your kids, teach kids all adults are out to get them, brace for economics sure to result in marital spats and verbal abuse, et al) are of higher importance, massive immigration a mere comma in USA history, I respectfully submit those same MCs have missed even investigating and proving-up what they find to be the quality and issues of life in Latin America or elsewhere, to best focus true needs toward improving managed economies here and abroad to make those "DREAM"s of 1960's and 1970's memory a plausible reality...sort of, ala Eleanor Roosevelt, just selling raw emotionalism untethered to anything real at all, just a worn out 1960's Democrat paradigm for Latin America no matter WHERE immigrants come from.
 
Thus, I eagerly await the quadrennial conventions and Fall debates, to see which candidates will play the closest to truth, closest to delivering on what they tell us what we want to hear, and how best to defeat or drive around speed bumps of terrorism and nationalized human capital economies. After all, if it's that bad elsewhere despite elsewhere looking ala the USA, shouldn't we all at least find out that "bad" is so we can all get better together?

There's a lot out there today once again telling us to get soooo excited because Barack Obama will just BE the next President, many GOP sighing "eh, well then we either give up now or copy Obama ala Bush-Gore 2000", amnesty IS a done deal, more zillions of no-income immigrants IS the only USA future, USA residents of all races already will just be doing "God's penance for their sinfulness" per Roman Catholics et al, on and on it goes.
 
I can't imagine, though, that ALL candidates are going to sidestep the treatment of ALL people in the Western Hemishpere as or in the nature of nationalized human capital such precepts and slogans require...and how except for those not yet here to hide the fact farms and businesses and jobs shrink overall as cheaply made housing proliferates; food costs are high and food standards ever-lowering mainly due to stamps and fact we have to import most of the stuff, in a way like oil that's almost "No problemo, jeffe de El Norte...Mexico or Venezuela will just raise prices, cripple your peeps, and all will trade everything just to beg you for bread...SOUNDS like Marxism or whatever, but hey...it's the co-mutually managed national economy of the Western Hemisphere as one together, and who wants to upset the sweet security for our officials' and their rarafied few business orthodoxy friends, no?".
 
The way it currently sounds in PSA land, Conservatives say we need trade as stimulus, Pelosi and her side we WILL have mass ongoing immigration into government subsidized or owned homes and society, it looks like there's a choice, but actually at best we're do to BOTH and still have a chance at trade or job stimulus, Iraq, the price of tea in China, and all else including marrying gays being wholly irrelevant to the base of economics from which all society will flow.
 
In the interest of letting trade and agricultural possibilities flourish in the USA, I favor Conservatives generally as they don't agree joining a managed economy such as Mexico and Latin America have had for at least 100 years will do much to reduce the factors outside the USA bolstering static economies, or do more than expand its lifestylings of uber-wealthy and say-so powerful elites being the only folks besides serfs hanging around...ala FA Hayek's admonitions.
 
In re amnesty, both as a USA national and Conservative, looking at the currency of the situation I would be comfortable accepting that all immigrants here in a non-subsidized capacity be made USA citizens with requirement that prior citizenship(s) be renounced; that  any immigrant naturalized or not who runs out on mortgages or any credit forfeits the property to government here even if a bank made the loan, to discourage predatory use of property within communities as well as against poor people; that for a period of 5-10 years the USA issue only student and limited visitor visas, putting a hold on h1b until such time as it appears such work rerealistically exists and cannot be met from the diverse populations already present; that anyone without documentation be given emergency medical care as naturally seems a true emergency, a life-threatening situation, then transported to nation of origin, so dictators and bad economics folks abroad can't exist by throwing surpluses to us and dragging down all here while watering down political resistances they face, or using 287g to "clear brush"; and that the Federal government subject to reports to the full Congress track for 5-10 years all Federal funds received by States and Cities to ensure same are spent on what they're sent for.
 
I respectfully submit these thoughts as I'm sure nobody in this election wants to use an Eleanor Roosevelt-like oversimplification of facts re the economy, military even unused for diplomatic credibility, needs of people living abroad, what is God's will and what's His penance even if it's more like arbitrarily separating goats and sheep in terms of who is worthy of social existence, is a border fence to keep people out or to keep 287g's from escaping rendition clutches, and how just trusting Laden, Iran, Hamas, Chavez, ad infinitum will "keep the USA safe in a win-win scenario" involving less commerce then for um, er going green in such nobility......DO they?