By Chase on Sep 19, 2007 in Barack Obama, Blogosphere, Hillary Clinton, Immigration, Iowa Caucuses, John Edwards, Rhetoric, TV Ads | 0 Comments
I just received a press release from the Clinton campaign that is entirely in Spanish. It’s sent from their normal press address to, from what I can tell, their full press list. This is the first all-Spanish release I have received from a presidential campaign this year, and I find it interesting that [...]
By Chase on Sep 18, 2007 in Immigration, Iowa Caucuses, Republicans, Rhetoric, Tom Tancredo | 0 Comments
Iowa Independent’s Jay Wagner was one of seven people to attend Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo’s appearance at the country club in Sibley, IA, over the weekend. The seven people included “two county Republican committee members, three journalists and a smiling couple wearing Tancredo for President t-shirts.”
And he insisted that although his focus on immigration [...]
By Chase on Aug 28, 2007 in Blogosphere, Immigration, Politics, Republicans, Rhetoric | 0 Comments
“Mainstream Iowan,” a blog that is decidedly not mainstream, writes this morning that illegal immigration is “a public health issue for all Americans.”
Under a photo of a young hispanic male wearing a scary SARS mask, the blogger recounts this story:
When doctors told Francisco Santos he had tuberculosis Friday, health officials said the Gwinnett County 17-year-old [...]