Video: Obama telling illegal aliens they can vote
- Thread starter NZ Poke
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He should have answered:
"Only American citizens can vote, and it's a serious crime to vote illegally. If you're eligible for citizenship, you can apply on our Federal Immigration website. Once you become a citizen, you'll have the right to vote for the rest of your life."
His answer wasn't particularly clear, like that.
"Only American citizens can vote, and it's a serious crime to vote illegally. If you're eligible for citizenship, you can apply on our Federal Immigration website. Once you become a citizen, you'll have the right to vote for the rest of your life."
His answer wasn't particularly clear, like that.
It's pretty much exactly what he meant though.
She asked about undocumented "citizens" voting. He followed with a word lasagna that can be summed up as having said "Nobody checks that stuff. It's fine." Definitely not his finest work.
Think about how those nuanced linguistics (for an extremely simple answer) would be translated to people whose first language is not English --- and who come from cultures where corruption is present (and the norm) in all levels of society.
It's especially ironic considering we actually have federal plain language guidelines -- so things don't get lost in translation:
http://www.plainlanguage.gov/whyPL/index.cfm
Agree.
As long as you ignore his last sentence, which was crystal clear, and completely counter to the title of the thread.
Yes, all these attempts at distraction and pointing to the past are tiresome. Nice that we can agree every now and then.
It is stale, but it's some important perspective when Democrats are claiming to care about laws being broken.
The president of the United States was subtly implying to many millions of people who are here illegally (a crime), that they can vote (a crime) without serious risk (factually inaccurate).
What do you think would happen if an American Gringo was caught voting illegally in *any* country to our south?
If they were very very lucky, maybe they might get a walk of shame like below.
Otherwise, off to a deep dark prison and never heard from again, with no US embassy support. (And catching the gringo would widely celebrated by that country's people, media and government - nobody would say it's racist to celebrate either, lol)
@NZ Poke you have my encouragement to rustle all the leftists jimmies you can as long as they continue acting like dopey nuts.
It is awesome to see you guys shift from defending the present to reliving your glory days. You know when the burden of leadership was on others and all you had to do was lob your cynicism at the party in power. I can tell you that being the critic is so much easier.
That's not even funny. What if somebody was actually hurt?
he can't come up with a direct, clear, precise answer because he's been trained not to. glad he's gone.
