A politician being cynical is not exactly a “man bites dog” story, as seven years of President Barack Obama has taught us. But when the president goes in front of a Hispanic audience and praises the Bush immigration law he personally helped scuttle, cynicism reaches new heights.
Obama was much more honest, though, about his particular interest in this segment of the population when he responded to boos from the audience to a reference to Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. He paused and gave his trademark incantation, “Don’t boo…vote. They can’t hear the boos…they can hear your vote.”
The scene was the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Awards Gala, and the president as usual was energized. He pronounced every word ethnically (Spanish is the only European language Obama strives to enunciate as a native speaker—German, French, and Italian names can be Americanized) and sought right away to stoke grievances, which, according to the telling, can be remedied only if all leftist constituencies stick together.
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