Obamaphiles miss the real issues again

Frank Rich wrote another Sunday column for the NYTimes praising Obama and excoriating Clinton and McCain (http://www.nytimes.com/
2008/03/23/opinion/
23rich.html?_r=1&oref=
slogin).

I wrote this response:

Granting all you say against McCain and for Obama--you still haven't acknowledged what could give McCain the gig:

(1) he supports the illegal alien invasion of our country slightly less than Clinton/Obama, and
(2) he has vowed to veto earmarked/bloated spending bills and Clinton/Obama haven't.

We who are centrist independents are inclined to vote for a president of whichever party isn't dominant in Congress, in recognition of the fact that neither party can govern itself, much less the country. And the disappointing continuation of the GOP's corrupt practices by the Democratic Congress hasn't allayed this fear.

Plus Rich's Beltway blindness to the impact of illegal immigration continues to warp his judgment.

Of course he doesn't live in--or apparently recognize the existence of--the American Southwest, where the illegals have concentrated, dragging California's school system to nearly the bottom of the states' rankings, choking our ERs, stuffing our prisons, and presenting us with the dismal fact that second- and third- generation descendants of previous amnesties of Mexican illegals (the last in 1986) have not assimilated into American society like other immigrant waves have. They speak English of a sort but they stay firmly rooted to the bottom of the economic ladder and the top of the ranks of high school dropouts.

This has contributed to the third worldization of the Southwest. And the advocacy for illegals by Clinton/Obama/Rich says less about their "humanity" than their determination to let the ruling elite of Mexico outsource its overpopulation problem and social welfare infrastructure to America.

And news flash--America had no part in Mexico's population booming from a comfortable 20 million in 1940 to a seam-busting 100 million in 2000. They did that all by themselves, primarily due to the dominance of a church that calls condoms murder and today instructs its American adherents to break American laws when they conflict with Church dictates.

None of these facts appear to have penetrated Rich's consciousness, which makes his political commentary parochial and lopsided.

One out of eight Americans is a Californian. And the likes of Rich are contributing to turning my state (along with Arizona, New Mexico and Texas) into an American Quebec. Even today the most-watched TV station in LA broadcasts only in Spanish. And the children of illegal immigrants will be a majority of Californians by 2050. Thanks heaps, Rich.