Does Obama Think Latinos Are Stupid?

Obama Huddles With Hispanic Groups To Woo Support For 2012 Race

President Barack Obama is hosting a White House meeting for Hispanic advocacy groups Monday, just a week after a Gallup poll of Hispanic voters revealed potentially lethal news for his reelection chances.

The Gallup poll showed that Obama’s support among Hispanics fell almost a third in the last 18 months, down from 73 percent in December 2009 to 52 percent in June 2011. That’s very bad news for Democrats, because Obama’s re-election strategy depends on a Hispanic landslide in swing states such as Florida and Virginia.
But it is good news for Republicans, who are trying to boost their share of the overall Hispanic vote up to and beyond 40 percent.

The two-day Hispanic Policy Conference brings “community leaders from across the country together with a broad range of White House and Cabinet officials for an in-depth series of interactive workshops and substantive conversations,” according to a White House statement issued Friday. The event is being held in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is part of the White House complex, and only a minute’s walk from the White House.

The ethnic advocates will meet with senior officials, including Tom Perez, who runs the social-issues arm of the Department of Justice, Alejandro Mayorkas, the director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, and Felicia Escobar, the White House’s senior immigration advisor. Most of the meeting will be open to press, but the schedule excludes media at 4.30 p.m. President Obama may choose to meet the advocates at that time.

Over the last few months, Obama has met several times with Hispanic opinion-leaders, including news, radio and entertainment personalities, because he needs to spur a massive turnout of Hispanic supporters in 2012. (Obama seeks 2012 victory via debt talks)
On July 7, White House senior aide David Plouffe said the president’s re-election campaign would win on a wave of votes from blacks and Hispanics. “We believe that we can improve over what we did in 2008 in turnout in some of those base Obama groups,” he told reporters at a breakfast organized by Bloomberg’s political news operation in Washington, D.C.

The Hispanic community is critical to the campaign, because it includes a large pool of potentially sympathetic new voters who could offset Obama’s low ratings of 38 percent among white voters and 39 percent among seniors.

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The article above, appearing in The Daily Caller  is interesting, and revealing.  There is more to read by clicking the link above. For years Democrats have courted and won the Hispanic vote by keeping Latinos beholden to them with entitlement programs. They took advantage of their financial and educational need, and by keeping them from thriving, they were assured of their votes.  It is their modus operandus  when dealing with so called, "minorities."  Yes, some "community activist" groups will always be there with their hand out to receive freebies from the taxpayer's bounty.  But to quote Bob Dylan, "The Times They Are a Changing."

We noticed that political climate when we came to  South Texas, to a largely Hispanic community twenty eight years ago.  However, we are elated to report that in the last twenty to twenty five years, dramatic change has come to this area in a big way.  People who once voted as they were told to do, are now thinking for themselves.  With their success in life has come independence of thought, and Democrats can no longer prey on people's needs to get their votes. 

Republicans too reach out to ethnic groups on the basis of their identity, but they do so appealing to their values and their principles, not with promises of benefits and entitlements that simply cannot be met. 

Barack Obama as we discussed yesterday, is guilty of lying to all whom he persuaded to vote for him in 2008.  Sure, he'll get some votes by dangling the immigration carrot before some,  (he'll concentrate in Arizona and California)but he is sorely mistaken if he believes he can fool the same people twice.  He needs to understand that persons of Spanish heritage or mixed heritage for that matter are for the most part, hard working, religious people, with strong family values, and a great deal of pride and integrity.  Their belief system is more in line with the Republican Conservative than it is with the Democrats.  As the cartoon above so aptly expresses, "Does he think we're stupid?"
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