“and affirmative action and criticized Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s veto of aHe is trying to gain the care of the Latino community. He was in support of the Latinos considering some acts had been vetoed that were in favor of immigrants. To him diversity is a a great thing. Yes, we have an excessive amount of immigrants but trying to deport all those illegal immigrants would just take too much time and effort. We need to help them find a path way to citizenship or simply more funds or actions to help the immigrants of this nation. America is based on immigrants, basically, we need to help each other out. The California dream act was vetoed by the governor causing the immigrants to lose that opportunity of
measure to extend college scholarships to students in the country illegally”
(Decker).
“saying that he Cal Grant financial aid program and community college feeThis opportunity could have been huge for the immigrants but that dream was quickly crushed with a veto. Obama tried to steer away from that connotation that he was there to take away their rights. He came there to show how much diversity is lively in our country and how this country thrives off diversity and without it, America would notbe what it is, the land of opportunity. Through his ways, he hoped to attain more supporters of his campaign by the end of his time spent in East Los Angeles. He wanted people to think that he was the most suitable Democratic nominee for president, to hopefully get ahead of Clinton.
waivers should be for legal residents, not illegal immigrant students” (Decker).
In my opinion, I think what he’s doing is worthwhile. He is trying to reach out to people, in this case the Latino voters. He believes that Latinos in association with immigrants should have the opportunity to attain success through American Dream without the government interfering by labeling he/she an immigrant, making that person flawed for life because he/she is not an American citizen. He thought by coming to the west he also gets that mind set that Clinton will win the West. Within this campaigning in East Los Angeles, Obama started to address differences between Clinton and him, trying to gain support by conniving them to go on this side. He said,
“first of all, when you’re 46, you’re black and your name is Barack Obama,He portrays how determined he is to become the best possible candidate for president, by captivating his supporters into voting for him through his ways of reaching out to the people of America. The campaigning he did in California has proven to be a success through his powerful words of persuasion.
you’re always the underdog, laughing, so nobody expected that this would be
easy” (Decker).
Works Cited: “Obama courts Latino voters in L.A.” (Front Section) by Cathleen Decker (LA Times Sunday Edition)
2 comments:
Obama speaking to the latino community is a positive move on his part even though it'll be a stretch taking those voters from Clinton. As far as I have heard, Obama seems to be the only candidate really going out there, physically, to people's towns and speaking in their neighborhoods. That is another good move on his part because it shows that he cares about the people and he speaks to them in a setting where they feel comfertable. This is better then having them commute to this ritzy glitzy convention center in their main cities of the state. Also, Obama stating himself as "the underdog" is going to help him in the polls because the people who feel like "underdogs" in this country- specifically, those in poverty- will relate to his message.
I think Obama is really feeling the pressure coming from Hilary having a commanding lead. It is smart to go to the minorities, hopefully being able to gain their vote, but I would be careful in believing exactly as he said, because I would not be suprised if he did not back it up. I think he may just be doing it for some needed votes.
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