{"id":8136,"date":"2012-06-23T11:52:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T18:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8136"},"modified":"2012-06-23T11:52:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T18:52:04","slug":"obama-blasts-romney-at-naleo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/23\/obama-blasts-romney-at-naleo\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Blasts Romney at NALEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Willard Romney has a problem with the Latino community.&#160; He want\u2019s them to vote for him, so he tried to etch his sketch into making them think that his family were Mexican immigrants too, but his family always was Anglo. <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2012\/04\/romneys-family-came-from-a-polygamy-commune-says-montana-gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">His grandfather expatriated to live in a Mormon polygamy commune<\/a><font color=\"#0000ff\">, when the practice was banned here.&#160; His father, having only one wife, returned.&#160; He is no Latino and pretending to be one could not be more insultingly patronizing.&#160; He also needs them to ignore all his policies.&#160; With Romney in such a vulnerable position, Obama simply shredded him.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"23NALEO\" border=\"0\" alt=\"23NALEO\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/23NALEO.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"237\" \/>President Barack Obama continued to try to lock up the Hispanic vote Friday when he spoke before the <a href=\"http:\/\/miami.cbslocal.com\/2012\/06\/22\/obama-to-address-latino-leaders-a-day-after-romney\/#\" target=\"_blank\">National<\/a> Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials at Disney World.<\/p>\n<p>The president told the group the U.S. needs a comprehensive immigration solution and that as long as he is president, he \u201cwill not give up the fight\u201d to reform immigration laws.<\/p>\n<p>Through a series of moves, including last week\u2019s policy change to stop deporting some illegal immigrants, President Obama is slowly galvanizing the support of Hispanic communities behind his re-election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The immigration initiative drew fire from Republicans over the policy and because they perceived the move as being an end-run around Congress, which has been stuck in gridlock for most of the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>As Obama was speaking, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latinodecisions.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/22\/new-poll-obama-leads-romney-among-latinos-in-key-2012-battleground-states\/\" target=\"_blank\">a new poll from Latino Decisions<\/a> gave the President more good news from the Hispanic community. Overall, the Latino Decisions poll found Obama lead Romney 63-27 among Latino Voters in the states of Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, and Virginia\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/miami.cbslocal.com\/2012\/06\/22\/obama-to-address-latino-leaders-a-day-after-romney\/\" target=\"_blank\">CBS<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is the complete video of Obama\u2019s speech.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2YvyhigDK-I?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">He thoroughly debunked the Republican lie that he did not give them an opportunity to work with him toward a bipartisan solution for law abiding immigrants brought here as minors.&#160; For Republicans bipartisanship means we bend over and grab our ankles, while they do the rest.&#160; He outlined the many times Democrats have tried to implement comprehensive immigration reform, while Republicans filibustered and blocked it.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ed Schultz discussed the speech with Eugene Robinson and Darren Soto.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc4c8151\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" target=\"_blank\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=47927933^0^691525&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc4c8151\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=47927933^0^691525&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 592px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; font-size: 11px\">Visit msnbc.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That just about says it all.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Romney supports Papers Please, has promised to veto the Dream Act, proposes self-deportation, and panders to bigots, nativists, racists, and white supremacists at every opportunity.&#160; A Latino would have to be loco to vote for him, but then so would a woman, a black, an LGBT person, a worker, a student, a senior, and everyone else, except millionaires, billionaires, corporate criminals and hatemongers.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willard Romney has a problem with the Latino community.&#160; He want\u2019s them to vote for him, so he tried to etch his sketch into making them think that his family were Mexican immigrants too, but his family always was Anglo. 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