European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 2007 stars and stripes Page 17 opinion Why Clinton won the democratic debate last sunday night on i said that Hillary Clinton was the win Ner of the democratic the following during a creative coalition sponsored panel at the Radisson hotel in Arianna Huffington Lawrence who was asked me after a Good nights i wanted to revise and extend my i dont want to revise my i want to extend Hillary Clinton won because she arrived at the debate As the front runner with a widening Lead in National polls and left the debate with her position her Success was due in part to what she did Dur ing the and in part to what Barack Obama failed to she came across As More comfortable in her own and More natural and less programmed than in the and she exhibited an effortless Charm that those close to her often rave about but that the Public rarely she even scored two of the big Gest laughs of the night with her Zinger about Dick Cheney diplomatic and her use of Barry Goldwater shoot straight line about Gays in the she was particularly effective in achieving her campaigns Foremost objective blurring the differences Between her and her opponents on the differences among us Are she said of her Fel Low the differences Between us and the republicans Are and i dont want anybody in America to be con this successful blurring of differences was made possible by Obama failure to Challenge Clinton statements about the War something that he could easily have since the contradictions in her positions were front and Center in the news last in a cover Story in the new York times he could have raised substantive undermining her claims without in any Way tarnishing his new kind of politics for he could have questioned Hillary claim that when she voted to authorize the she was actually voting to strengthen Bush hand so he could pursue by pointing out that she had voted against an amendment put Forth by Carl Levin that would have required Bush to exhaust All diplomatic approaches be fore invading and he could have pressed the question of Why Clinton had voted to authorize the War without Reading the full National intelligence doing so would have been no different in tone than his counterpunch comment that John Edwards had been four and a half years late on leadership on Iraq which was Obama debate High Obama also let Clinton get away with making the astounding claim that we Are safer than we were before 11 something that is simply not that Bush policies at Home and abroad have left us less Safe will certainly be a key line of attack for any democratic Campaign that Hopes to succeed in Obama could have challenged Clin ton on this without bullying his he could even have presented it As a rhetorical question How can anyone truly believe we Are safer in Light of a official reports that Iraq has become a prime recruitment tool for terrorists b the spread of ant american feeling worldwide and c How the War in Iraq has diverted hundreds of billions of dollars that could otherwise could have been spent shoring up Security at our nations ports and Chemi Cal plants nothing in that line of argument would have damaged Obama standing As a unifier and a candidate of Hope is not contradictory to and the truth is that we Are not and the Over hyped arrest of a near indigent loner who dreamed of blowing up Juk Airport Doest change Hillary Clinton strategy is to Rise above the democratic fray and keep the focus on George and that a Good strategy for a Barack Obama strategy also appears to be rising above the but that is no Way to unseat a Iraq is Hillary Achilles but it will become less and less so if Obama keeps letting her off the Hook on the War and on National the Point int just How Clinton voted in but How she is thinking in if she really believes that we Are safer now than we were before Bush invaded she is seriously misguided and is on the wrong Side of the National Security debate that will undoubtedly be at the heart of the 2008 in the spin room after the David Obama chief Media told reporters that debates like this one were part of a larger sequence and that there is still a Long time to go before the Iowa caucuses and new Hampshire Prima and its certainly True that Obama still has plenty of time to differentiate his Posi Tion on the War and National Security from but hed better get started and Stop leaving Choice opportunities on the 1965 immigration Law put on bad footing Ann Coulter republicans defense of president Bush immigration Bill is More enraging than their defense of Harriet Back Bush conservative base was accused of being sexist for opposing an unqualified woman Nomina Tion to the highest court in the now were racists for not wanting to Grant am Nesty to millions of Ille Gal i dont know Why conservatives like Linda Chavez have to argue like liberals by smearing their opponents Asoh now i remember their arguments Are As Strong As liberals arguments usually apart from no subject produces so much disingenuous Ness As americas immigration both Legal and for nearly 50 americans have been intentionally lied to about our immigration in Teddy Kennedy overhauled Immi Gration Law with the specific purpose of effecting a dramatic change in the nations de Bobby Kennedy had civil so Teddy needed something big he would preside Over a civil rights Bill for the entire third world my but that Man could drink in those with his 1965 immigration Kennedy embarked on entirely transform ing american culture for no Good you know How peo ple always say the same arguments against illegal immigrants today were once made about the Irish to show How silly those arguments Are if Only the Senate had had an Irish need not apply sign until that immigration Law basically took a Lavisse Zaire with country quotas attempting to replicate the traditional immigration most immigrants to America had historically come from great Germany and scandinavian coun immigration quotas roughly reflected that with smaller numbers of immigrants admitted from other but in an Long awaited payback to Kennedy decided he was going to radically transform the racial composition of the instead of taking 15 immigrants from England and three from Ameri apart from no subject produces so much disingenuous Ness As americas immigration both Legal and illegal prickly City by Scott Stantis Ca would henceforth take three from England and 15 from paybacks a daughters of the american revolution some of those hardworking immigrants who just want a Chance to succeed were arrested recently in a plot to blow up Juk air most immigrants still come from a hand Ful of countries Kennedy simply changed which countries those would in according to the department of Homeland be the overwhelming majority of Immi Grants came from Only 10 none of which had sent a lot of immigrants to Ameri Ca for the country first 200 years Mexico India China the Philippines Cuba Viet Nam the dominican Republic Korea Colombia and Ukraine in Whites were 90 percent of the the census Bureau recently Esti mated that Whites already account for less than two thirds of the population and will be a minority by other estimates put that Day much one May assume the new majority will not be such compassionate overlords As the White majority has if this sort of dras tic change were legally imposed on any group other than White it would be called yet Whites Are called racists merely for mentioning the fact that cur rent immigration Law is intentionally designed to reduce their percentage in the we needed to have More discussion about Iraq for nearly two years before finally when will we be Al Lowed to begin Dis Cussion of a govern ment policy enacted by stealth 40 years ago specifically intended to decimate one partic ular ethnic group in our own country if liberals think iraqis Are genetically inca Pable of pulling off even the most rudimentary form of Why do they believe 50 million mexicans will magically become Good imbued in the nations his tory and upon crossing the Rio Grande maybe we should Dunk iraqis in the Rio and see what and As Long As were adopting an open Bor Ders policy for How about open ing the Borders for emigration As it anyone can come in and Start plotting terrorist attacks or collecting government services right but the rest of us can never escape having to pay for you can leave the you can renounce your citizenship but you still owe taxes for 10 the government does not allow us to Stop supporting welfare recipients in millions More of whom it plans to import under Bush that not a free Market its a Roach if these free marketeers at the Wall Street journal want the free movement of How about letting us freely leave after Treyve wrecked the country in Samuel Huntington Book who Are we the challenges to americas National he asks would America be the America it is today if in the 17th and 18th centuries it had been settled not by British protestants but by Spanish or Portu Guese catholics the answer is it would not be America it would be Mexico or i dont want to live in Quebec or but now i guess i have no since open Borders Means i can never