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The War on Arizona
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Contributor | Hikikomori Blitzkrieg! |
Last Edited | Hikikomori Blitzkrieg! Jul 15, 2010 09:58am |
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Category | Opinion |
Author | Patrick J. Buchanan |
News Date | Tuesday, July 13, 2010 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | Not since President Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock and JFK sent U.S. marshals to the University of Alabama has the federal government seemed so at war with a state of the union.
Arkansas and Alabama were defying U.S. court orders to desegregate. But Barack Obama’s war on Arizona is not a war of necessity. It is a war of choice—an unprovoked war, undertaken not to defend constitutional or civil rights, but to pander to his party’s left and Hispanic voters.
New Mexico’s Gov. Bill Richardson, himself Hispanic, gave the game away. At the Boston governors conference, he assured colleagues, nervous over the administration attacks on Arizona’s immigration law, that “Obama is popular with Hispanic voters, and this is going to be a popular move with them nationally.” |
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