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Bush says Republicans have anti-immigrant image
In his final press conference, President Bush on Monday said that the GOP “will come back” but needs a more inclusive message.

“Now, that may be fair or unfair, but that’s the image that came out. And, you know, if the image is ‘We don’t like immigrants,’ then there’s probably somebody else out there saying, ‘Well, if they don’t like immigrants, they probably don’t like me, as well,’” Bush said.
He also added: “So, my point was that our party has got to be compassionate and broad-minded.”
Read a transcript of the press conference here.


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By L1M89
January 14, 2009 10:14 AM | Link to this
As a cover for his own miserable failure of an Immigration Policy, President Bush further confuses the issues of Illegal Aliens and Immigration by wrongly painting Republicans as anti-Immigrant. Bushes’ globalist agenda is responsible for the pathetic plight of Illegal Aliens who’re being utilized as economic slaves by 21st century slave-masters.
Our President’s administration has had several Border Agents persecuted for doing their job protecting our USA from border thugs. Our former Border Agents are rotting in prison while criminality and chaos grow along our southern border thanks to the Bush Administration.
“Possible ICE leader urges pardon for Ramos and Compean”
“A candidate for Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has urged President Bush to pardon ex-Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean.
Miguel Contreras, a retired federal investigative official, said he wrote the letter hoping that Bush will grant the two El Pasoans a pardon or reduce their sentences.
“I reviewed everything I could find related to their cases, and based on my extensive experience, Compean and Ramos should be released and reinstated to their former jobs,” said Contreras, who lives in Yuma, Arizona.
Contreras, a security consultant, has worked for 30 years for various law enforcement agencies and departments, including ICE, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the former Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.”
source - http://bordercontrol.blogspot.com/
Christmas and a New Year are yesterdays news, now former border agents Ramos and Compean must be released and soon, otherwise our 43rd President’s name will be long remembered in infamy for the dastardly nature of his wanton disregard for our national sovereignty and his persecution of our heroes who worked to protect US Citizens from border-jumping drug runners, terrorists, thugs and Illegal Aliens.
By L1M89
January 14, 2009 11:01 PM | Link to this
What hubris Mr. President you exhibit with your unwarranted criticism of those interested in preserving our USA’s sovereignty while you continue to do the bidding of globalists. Are globalists the puppet masters pulling our President’s strings and keeping him from undoing the persecution of Ramos and Compean? Right this hideous wrong Mr. President, free them before time runs out for our former agents and our USA.
‘Attempted hit’ put on Ramos family ‘Thank God no one turned on a light! Monica and her 3 boys would be gone!’
The family of imprisoned Border Patrol agent Ignacio Ramos was the victim of an attempted hit on their lives this month, as the agent’s wife says someone broke into their home and filled it with gas, trashing photographs and pummeling their dog. Just weeks after Monica Ramos spoke with WND about the difficulty of enduring Christmas without her husband, her family returned from visiting Ignacio in prison on Jan 3. While she was away, burglars stole DVDS, a BB gun and cell phone and slashed her couch with a knife. They even beat her dog and ripped cherished wedding pictures and family photos of their life with Ignacio off the walls, smashing them on the ground.
But the vandalism wasn’t the worst part, Monica revealed in a Jan. 12 BlogTalkRadio interview. “It wasn’t so much that stuff was burglarized or that they actually took much,” she said. “What was really hard was that when we got here, the gas was turned on. It was very intentional in that somebody was trying to hurt us.” Her son opened the front door and discovered the strong odor. “Right away he alerted me,” she said. “He started yelling, ‘Mom, don’t walk in. Don’t bring my brothers.’ He said, ‘The gas is on!’ He ran in and started turning everything off.” Her father, Joe Loya, wrote on his blog, “Thank God no one turned on a light! Monica and her three boys would be gone!” Monica said she believes the gas was left on for two days. Her 11-year-old son walked into their home and started crying, ‘Look at our house. Haven’t they done enough?’ Then he said, “Why won’t the president just let my dad come home? This wouldn’t have happened.”
Source - #http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=86141
By George
January 15, 2009 7:45 AM | Link to this
I don’t think they have a negative attitude toward immigration, I think they are just fed up with ILLEGAL immigration, just like all the rest of us.
By L1M89
January 15, 2009 3:35 PM | Link to this
Political correctness does pay, at least for the Chief of our U.S. Border Patrol . But at what price for all of us and our Border Agents? President Bush has the chutzpa to talk about imagery, he should be freeing Ramos and Compean. What he has done while in office to our Republic’s national sovereignty and our Border Patrol is not leaving much of a legacy for our 43rd president to retire upon.
“Border Chief wins $61,000 bonus despite delays in building fence, failure to support agents” “The Bush administration has awarded a $61,200 bonus to Border Patrol Chief David V. Aguilar, despite agency criticism by Congress for delays in the border fence project and for accelerating a hiring program that auditors say threatens to reduce the quality of field supervision.
Aguilar has also been criticized by border agents for not supporting former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. His non-support was greeted with a unanimous “no confidence” vote by the union representing non-supervisory border agents.
The presidential merit bonus, equal to 35 percent of Aguilar’s $172,000 annual pay, is almost double the size of the $36,658 base starting salary for a Border Patrol agent.
The bonus angered many field agents, some of whom told the chief in an unsigned letter that the agency has been damaged and field agents jeopardized by his “politically expedient decisions.”
The agents’ four-page letter focuses on two major topics: a virtual fence project along the Arizona-Mexico border that it called “ineffective and too costly,” and changes at the Border Patrol Academy to meet a presidential mandate of hiring 6,000 more agents by the end of 2008. The letter accuses Chief Aguilar of ignoring top Border Patrol executives who unanimously opposed the academy changes.”
source - http://bordercontrol.blogspot.com/
Our 43rd President will be remembered for his selling out the interests of all American citizens, all for the benefit of his globalist puppet-masters. Forgotten will be his administrations numerous successes, President Bush’s legacy will be his administrations persecution of numerous Border Agents including Ramos and Compean:
“Congressman urges clemency for agents; #Bush on border agents: ‘I’m not talking pardons’; #Compean’s wife wants heart-to-heart with Bush; #Bush springs drug dealers, lets 2 border agents rot; #Ramos-Compean treatment has border agents quivering; #Border agent convictions upheld by court of appeals; What did government promise drug smuggler?; Feds admit smuggler lied in Ramos-Compean case; Drug smuggler arrested for 2nd marijuana load; Rights ‘denied’ Ramos, Compean; Bush won’t get involved in Ramos, Compean review; Lawmaker: Terrorists treated better than Ramos, Compean; #New ethics complaint targets Ramos-Compean prosecutor.” source - #http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=86141
By Pharme603
January 29, 2010 8:54 AM | Link to this
Very nice site!
By L1M89
July 2, 2010 1:12 AM | Link to this
This is for all of those who’re Megalobamamaniacs and America’s enemies, both foreign and domestic:
AMERICA THE EXCEPTIONAL Why it’s the greatest nation in human history
Whether Barack Obama is apologizing about America to a 7-year-old child or to European and Muslim world leaders, after 18 months as president there is no longer any doubt about which direction he’s taking America: Down.
“Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.” - President Barack Obama in Cairo, Egypt, June 3, 2009 “Whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower.” - President Obama at close of two-day nuclear security summit in Washington, D.C., April 13, 2010 “[The world] cannot depend as much on the U.S. as it did in the past.” - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to the BBC, June 25, 2010By every objective measure, it’s clear that President Obama and those surrounding and guiding him are firmly committed to ending, once and for all, America’s economic, military and moral leadership in the world.
However, the problem with that, as the July issue of Whistleblower magazine powerfully documents, is that history proves the only thing that has prevented the world from plunging into utter darkness and tyranny has been America’s leadership, strength, courage, generosity and legendary liberty - in short, its exceptionalism.”<
-source - http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=173133
For you freedom loving patriots, where ever you are celebrate freedom and independence this 4th of July and everyday there after. God Bless America… …
By L1M89
July 2, 2010 1:23 AM | Link to this
From the whining snivelling spokesmouths of failed socialism:
The clarion call of Marx and his 19th century socialists was Internationalism, ‘All Workers of the World Unite’, predicated as it was on the globalizing nature of industrial capitalism as it sought to expand the capitalist market into every nook and cranny where there was a buck to be made. And in so doing, Marx correctly predicted that industrial capitalism would create an organized and politically conscious working class wherever it spread, who were at the time, the most advanced section of working people, and that it would be the organized working class ‘led’ by a revolutionary organization that would do away with capitalism and replace it with a rational, planned socialist economy.
So much for the theory. The practice has taught some of us valuable lessons about just how difficult it is to build a socialist economy and not merely because we had nothing but theory to go on but also because the dominant capitalist states were determined that any and all alternatives to capitalism would and should fail and crucially, should be seen to fail.”<
source - http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14012
also - http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/23-01-2010/111799-obama_chance-0#comment-60047520 .
By L1M89
July 2, 2010 1:25 AM | Link to this
jamessrq wrote, in response to l1m89:
Marxism goes hand in hand with atheism or, at the very least, the absence of the idea of sin. History proves that human greed and evil knows no bounds and anyone who thinks that Marx’s ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ will work should instead think of Orwell’s image of ‘…a boot stomping on the face of humanity, forever.’
Link to comment: http://disq.us/flt6b
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By jamessrq
July 2, 2010 1:28 AM | Link to this
jamessrq wrote, in response to l1m89:
Marxism goes hand in hand with atheism or, at the very least, the absence of the idea of sin. History proves that human greed and evil knows no bounds and anyone who thinks that Marx’s ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ will work should instead think of Orwell’s image of ‘…a boot stomping on the face of humanity, forever.’
Link to comment: http://disq.us/flt6b
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By Olivia Kroth
July 2, 2010 1:40 AM | Link to this
james wrote: “A boot stomping in the face of humanity” like those boots of Yankee prison wards in GUANTANAMO - ABU GHRAIB - BAGRAM” …
The Yanks like to torture people, it is well known, documented with photos.
You should not start talking about “stomping on the face of humanity”, Mr. James.
Yankees are not a part of “humanity”.
By jamessrq
July 2, 2010 1:41 AM | Link to this
The Yankees play in New York. Guantanamo prisoners are fed Halal meals and are given access to lawyers. Go home, Gulag Girl.
By jamessrq
July 2, 2010 1:46 AM | Link to this
Anyone who’ll be in the area on the 4th of July drop by.
COME ONE, COME ALL!
If you love America and want to Celebrate in a Big Way, come march with your Tea Party Patriots of North Idaho in the 4th of July parade in Coeur d\u2019Alene. EVERYONE is welcome. Attendance at a rally is not a pre-requisite! Love of country is the only requirement!
The parade begins at 11:00 on the 4th. Our staging area is at Sherman and 19th St. Arrive around 9:30 if you\u2019d like to help decorate our float. You may bring signs with patriotic quotes of famous Americans. However, remember that parade regulations prohibit sticks or poles. No protest signs please. This is a time to celebrate, not lament!
To those who received my first email regarding the parade: I was wrong when I said it would be over around noon. I thought the parade started earlier. However, you can, of course, \u201cpeel off\u201d any time you need to.
Let’s show America and our veterans how much we appreciate and celebrate our FREEDOM!
Your TPPNI Committee
-source - http://www.idahotea.net/index.php/component/acy… ….
By L1M89
July 2, 2010 1:50 AM | Link to this
With our USA’s Independence Day rapidly approaching the following item may be appropriate. It isn’t mine, it’s from a patriot over at the GOP Forum:
We have stuck together since the late 1950’s, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has run its course.
Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right so let’s just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.
Here is a model separation agreement:
Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.
We don’t like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. Since you hate guns and war, we’ll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military.
You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O’Donnell (You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them).
We’ll keep the capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street. You can have your beloved homeless, homeboys, hippies and illegal aliens. We’ll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO’s and rednecks. We’ll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood ..
You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we’ll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.. You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we’ll help provide them security..
We’ll keep our Judeo-Christian values.. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism and Shirley McClain. You can also have the U.N.. but we will no longer be paying the bill.
We’ll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru stationwagon you can find..
You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practising doctors. We’ll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right.
We’ll keep The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the National Anthem. I’m sure you’ll be happy to substitute Imagine, I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing, Kum Ba Ya or We Are the World.
We’ll practice trickledown economics and you can give trickle up poverty your best shot. Since it often so offends you, we’ll keep our history, our name and our flag..
Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other likeminded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I’ll bet you Answer which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.
Sincerely, John J. Wall
Law Student and an American
P.S. Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Sheen, Barbara Streisand, & Jane Fonda with you.
P. S. S. And we won’t have to press 1 for English.”<
source - http://www.gopusa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63920
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By L1M89
July 6, 2010 3:09 PM | Link to this
Judging by the way America’s presently being mislead, will everybody soon be hoping for a real change and a return to the now seemingly happy days of our forty-third president’s questionable administration?
For some “Hope n’ Change” proves to be another of the Obamanation’s abysmal failures…
In what Corsi called an embarrassment to the White House, a sprawling “Obamaville” tent city has appeared on 50 acres of Navy and city land directly behind Waipahu High School.
In the Great Depression of the 1930s, tent cities where thousands of unemployed homeless resided were known as “Hoovervilles,” after President Herbert Hoover.
The Waipahu High School “Obamaville” drew unwanted national attention during an episode of “Dog the Bounty Hunter” on the A&E network when Duane “Dog” Chapman and his bounty-hunter family discovered some 60 different homeless encampments in the 50 acres behind the Oahu high school.
The Honolulu Star Advertiser reported that Doran J. Porter, executive director of the Affordable Housing and Homeless Alliance, believes more and more homeless encampments like the Obamaville behind Waipahu High School are springing up in Oahu as the Honolulu police and city officials drive the homeless off the island’s beaches and out of city parks.
Still, on June 22, the White House along with several cabinet offices launched a new national strategy proposed by the Interagency Council on Homelessness to deliver a plan “to finish the job of ending veteran and chronic homelessness by 2015 and among families, youth and children by 2020.”
“Remarkably, socialists never learn that large government bureaucracies have a history of perpetuating, not solving, the social problems they were constituted to solve,” Corsi wrote.
He said an Obama administration mortgage-modification program was doomed to fail from the start, much like Obama’s new homelessness initiative is certain to fail.
Corsi wrote, “In both cases, the only real solutions lie with jobs and the creation of strong families in which children can be educated with skills that make more likely their own future employment and ability to create families.”’>
-source - http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=174965
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By L1M89
July 15, 2010 11:27 AM | Link to this
Struggling for existence under our present presidential regime almost makes the eight years of our forty third president seem like the good old days.
Memo to Gov. Jan Brewer:
Dear Arizona Gov. Brewer:
Sincerely,,,, Lawrence M Charles aka. L1M89
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