Your Daily Obama Gaffe: Hate Crimes Against Hispanics Have Doubled?

From Mickey Kaus:

Where does Obama get that “hate crimes against Hispanic people doubled last year”–an alleged increase he blamed on “people like Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh ginning things up”? The latest FBI statistics I can find are from 2006, not last year. They show about a 14% increase from 2005, by my calculation. Even the Southern Poverty Law Center only claims

According to hate crime statistics published annually by the FBI, anti-Latino hate crimes rose by almost 35% between 2003 and 2006, the latest year for which statistics are available.

A 35% increase over four years is not “doubled last year.”

In the taxonomy of Obama gaffes this is not a ‘misspoke’ gaffe (uncle liberating Auschwitz) or a dumb idea gaffe (no preconditions for meeting with Iran), but a ‘just making sh*t up that sounds good’ gaffe.

Don’t say he isn’t thorough.

Crossposted from Ken McCracken

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  • http://Array robert108

    And of course “hate crimes” is such a vague category they could be up or they could be done.

    Hate crime is thought crime; it’s whatever the ruling elite think it is.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    And of course “hate crimes” is such a vague category they could be up or they could be done.

  • ews48

    You don’t have to tell the truth when you’re campaigning. Just ask any of the other viable candidates. Hillary. of course, they’ll probably not tell the truth, so, don’t waste your time.

  • Jeugenen

    MEXICAN ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION REFORM, ECONOMICS, AND TYRANNY

    It is very economically advantageous to use cheap Mexican seasonal agricultural guest workers; it is very socially and economically disadvantageous to let them stay after the crop is harvested.

    When seasonal guest workers do return to Mexico at end of the growing season, they return with money and experience, to contribute to the development of Mexico; and each year, when a new group of seasonal guest workers comes, they are eager to work for the same low non-citizen wages.

    And, when they return to Mexico at end of the growing season, they do not drive down the wages of American workers, by competing for jobs in landscaping, construction, sanitation, and housekeeping; and they do not use American governmental social services.

    Mexico is land rich in natural resources; what makes it so socially and economically poor are its Mexican People; and wherever they immigrate they bring their deplorable civilization with them. It is so inferior than none of them want to return to it.

    The Mexican dream of regaining political control over Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California is America’s worst nightmare. Starting at all of the border towns, and spreading northward throughout America, like cancers, are thousands of deplorable Mexican neighborhoods.

    America is presently occupied by 12-15 million Mexicans. With the deportation of all the illegal immigrants, students will again be able to get good paying summer jobs, to learn responsibility and earn their way through college; blue-collar wages will rise; border towns will not be slums; Spanish will not be a second language; crime will go down; hospitals and prisons will not be overcrowded.

    When seasonal guest workers come from all of the countries of Latin America, on a strict quota system, then every country benefits, not Mexico exclusively; and when they are well treated, the experience is mutually positive.

    When all of the illegal aliens are deported, the Neo-Lib Democrats and Neo-Con Republicans will lose millions of political supporters, and the vast donations that they receive from the Mexican Lobby; and, those American businesses that exploit cheap Mexican labor will lose their illegal competitive advantages.

    No rich superior civilization in the World can coexist side by side with a poor inferior civilization, without a great wall or fence, strict guest labor laws, armed border guards, and fines for hiring illegal aliens.

    Those tyrannical elected Republican and Democrat leaders who serve the crooked exploitive labor lobbies, such Samuel Johnson in Texas and Nancy Pelosi in California, notoriously supporting amnesty, hindering the enforcement of immigration laws and enactment of immigration reforms, in defiance of the majority will of the American People, shall be punished for their imposition of tyrannical government.

  • Hoss

    Wonder which one of his staffers he’s going to throw under the bus for this “gaffe.” The guy doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.

  • 2Hotel9

    Andrew? Hows about I turn you for committing a hate crime?

  • 2Hotel9

    ANd exactly who is committing all these crimes against “Hispanics”? Is it, perchance, other “Hispanics”?

  • Guest

    George W. Bush had better stop committing hate crimes.

    Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
    B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
    Messiah College, Grantham, PA
    Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993

    http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-did-you-think-of-that-naacp-anti.html

  • robert108

    It is very economically advantageous to use cheap Mexican seasonal agricultural guest workers…

    Wrong! It suppresses technological innovation, which is essential to a free enterprise economy.

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