Posted by
Jonathan Cooke on Monday, September 10, 2007 3:02:02 PM
For the first time in U.S. history, presidential candidates held a televised debate conducted in Spanish. It was broadcast from the University of Miami and carried on Univision, a U.S. based Spanish-only television channel, September 9th 2007.
The entire debate was conducted in Spanish. Candidates were asked questions in Spanish, and the candidates’ replies were translated into Spanish and broadcast out in Spanish. American viewers wanting the debate in English in their own country had to turn on closed captioning (not a joke).
Democrats Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich, Barack Obama and Bill Richardson were broadcast for 90 minutes on Univision's television channel, AM radio station and via a live web feed.
All of the Democratic candidates announced that they had plans to legalize the illegal immigrants that have already found ways into the United States. Hillary Clinton spat out acid by saying that Republican legislation to penalize those who hire illegals, "would have criminalized Jesus Christ!" Mike Gravel spouted off that "We are all immigrants!". Bill Richardson regretted that the audience was unable to hear the presidential candidates themselves actually speaking in Spanish instead of merely hearing a translation, and Kucinich, possibly drunk on ego at that point, declared that as President he would make Spanish an official second language of the United States.
DNC chair Howard "I have a Scream" Dean, in speaking of the debate, attacked Republicans with the accusation that the GOP will routinely "scapegoat Hispanic immigrants for political gain", this statement was translated into Spanish before being broadcast on the Spanish-only television channel.
Democrats have been wooing Hispanics for some time now. During the protests held by illegal aliens in 2006 with thousands marching while waving Mexican flags on American soil at those protests the Democrats were handing out posters written in Spanish urging those same illegal aliens to register to vote, which unfortunately is all too easy for illegals to accomplish. Hispanics now outnumber Blacks in the United States as the minority group and have done so for five years now (U.S. Census Bureau, 2007) so they certainly have the potential to swing elections if recruited en mass, which is exactly what the Democratic war machine is rolling towards.
Jonathan RF Cooke
September 10th, 2007
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