| The
G-D America pastor's inflammatory
sermons, widely distributed in the
media, are simply a caricature and the
remarks are taken out of context, he
contends. Of course, after the G-D
America pastor called the Senator's bluff,
the pastor was thrown under the bus. Then there is the issue of Michelle Obama not being proud to be an American. Of the Senator's use of a pin with the US flag, then not using it, then using it again. |
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| G-D Pastor as seen on YouTube |
Or what about what the relationship between Senator
Obama's and what Chicago Sun Tribune reporter
Tim Novak's calls the Senator's Slumlord
Patron Rezko - The response from the
Senator's campaign was: "Senator Obama
does not remember having conversations with Tony
Rezko about properties that he owned."
Or what about the Infamous San Francisco "Guns
and Faith" comments? Apparently the Obama
campaign is uber-sensitive to what it claims is
unwarranted harsh criticism due to contextual
factors and or amnesia.
Most recently, the Senator unequivocally stated that
he was embarrassed to see that Americans can only
say merci beacoup, whereas Europeans speak various
languages.
Trying to avoid the mistake other critics make, we
are trying to find the right context for Senator
Obama's remarks:
The Senator claims that he is an experienced
community organizer in Latino Communities.
Just last week, the Senator
met with Latino Leaders. Does this mean
that in such a long association with the Latino
Community he has not heard anyone speak Spanish?
Or is it that the Senator is so familiar with
Spanish, that he does not consider the language
either foreign or European?
Surely as a community activist, the Senator would
have known about the Federal Voting Rights Act,
which require cities to adopt a foreign language
policy. For example, the City
of Mission Viejo Section pursuant to Section
13307 of the Elections Code of the
State of California resolved to have candidate
statements printed in Chinese and Spanish for the
November 4, 2008 election.
What about San Gabriel Valley's "China
Valley"? In 1970, Monterey Park,
was about 50 percent Caucasian, 34 percent Hispanic,
and 15 percent Asian, with the majority of the
Asians being Japanese. In 1977 developer
Frederic Hsieh, announced to the town's
incredulous Chamber of Commerce, "You may not
but Monterey Park will serve as the mecca for
Chinese business."
Then there is the Indian and Vietnamese
Experience in Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley
is home to The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a global
not-for-profit network of entrepreneurs and
professionals dedicated to the advancement of
entrepreneurship, which recently held the
premier and largest convention for entrepreneurs, at
the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara,
California.
So before we decide how to characterize the
Senator's embarrassment about foreign languages, we
are searching for additional context - considering
that arguably in California, one is exposed to
more foreign languages than in the European Union.
Does the Senator not consider foreign born, American
citizens American? Or in the case of Latinos,
is Spanish not a foreign Language?
Depending on the context we receive, for example, we
can argue that the money local, federal and state
government spend printing multi-language voting
pamphlets is a total waste - the savings from
not having to take such action, for instance, can
help erase the California budget deficit.
Context spoken here!
