¿Cómo se dice “el hipócrita” in English?
Perhaps you watched Felipe Calderon, president of the largest third-world nation in the hemisphere, Mexico, this week while visiting el presidente (for the moment) Obama in the Rose Garden. Later, Calderon addressed the Congress from the Well of the House, with Joe (”this-is-a-big-*******-deal”) Biden and Nancy (”partnership-not-partisanship”) Pelosi swooning in the background.
At both the Rose Garden set-up and the House charade, Calderon, courtesy of the loons now in charge (again, for the moment), was provided a perfect, red carpet platform…. to bash Arizona for having the gall to rise in its self defense against federal insouciance over the flood of illegal aliens pouring across the border.
Never mind that the problem originates in Mexico; never mind that the federal government has virtually abdicated its responsibilities to enforce the nation’s southern boundaries against invasion; all that matters is that Arizona must be slammed for having the nerve to object.
In the House speech, Calderon relished the opportunity to criticize Arizona, in English, for its enactment of laws intended to fight the flow of illegal immigration from Mexico. But the Rose Garden delivery was in Spanish, accompanied by an extraordinarily clumsy and awkward attempt at contemporaneous translation.
Ah, but Virginia, thanks to new technology recently developed and leaked to us here by “reliable sources,” we now have access to a transcript of an accurate translation of both Calderon’s Rose Garden speech and clarification of the House delivery. Check it out:
“Buenos morning, muchachos. I am pleased that el presidente Obama … for now… and Señora Pelosi have given me thees opportunity to trash one of the states of your nation. I speak, of course, of Arizona.
“¡Ay, chihuahuas! Who do theese people think they are? Their enactment of SB 1070, seeking to stem the flow of my people into their state, ees outrageous! Do they really tink my country can geeve the people who trek north the kind of rights and benefits they could get in America and Arizona? Free emergency health care? Anchor baby status for newborns? Jobs that could be filled by otherwise unemployed Arizonans? Better meals in prison for those convicted of crimes against Arizonans - usually wrongfully, I might add - than they could get in Meheeko? Geeve me a break.
“Seriously, eat is shameful that Arizona has taken these steps - el presidente Obama called them ‘misguided’ I believe - in an attempt to upset the, how you say, apple-cart of free flow of my people north. We are perfectly happy to have the federales of the U.S. of A. een charge of the eemmigration issue, because (eef I may speak confidentially), eat does such a wonderful job of allowing more and more of my people to take advantage of the benefits provided een Arizona and elsewhere.
“Bear een mind, many of my people simply use Arizona as a gateway to other states een your country. Once Arizona ees sucked dry of resources for my peoples’ healthcare, education of their kids, eencarceration for (did I mention, unjustly convicted?) felons, my people will need to go elsewhere to get these benefits. How can they be expected to get to these other states eef Arizona, with eets misguided (thank you for that description, Mr. el presidente Obama) anti-eemmigrant policies are allowed to stand? They will have to cross elsewhere, and that ees a grave injustice.
“Eef they want to cross into Arizona, they should not be forced to divert to Caleefornia or Texas. That weel just increase global warming. ¡Carambas! The Arizona law must be overturned. I demand it!
“Finally, I want to offer my deep, personal tanks, along weeth the tanks of my people, for the outstanding … truly magnificent way that your propagan…. excuse me… your free press in the U.S. of A. has misrep…. excuse me again… has represented and reported on the evils of thees Arizona law. As we all know, reality must give way to perception when matters of thees nature are involved. To do otherwise ees to encourage … forgive my use of the vulgarity… ‘racial profiling’.
“Never mind that thee law of thee U.S. of A. has for over sixty years required foreigners to carry their ‘papers’ on them and answer questions regarding their status when asked by U.S. of A. immigration personnel. What matters is the perception your nation’s media creates and leaves with the people that the Arizona law weel foster… again, forgive my use of the vulgarity… ‘racial profiling’… which can be performed only by U.S. of A. federales, and not Arizona law enforcement people. As long, of course, as the federales decide to keep ignoring enforcement of the federal law.
“So, in closing, muchas gracias, el presidente y Señora Pelosi for allowing me thees forum to trash and denigrate Arizona. Weethout your support and assistance, eat would have not been possible. ¡Muchas gracias! ¡Viva la raza! ¡Viva Meheeko! ¡Si se puede!”
But wait! There’s more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ4AFE0aU8A
Tell me again the hypocrisy of Obama, Pelosi and the likes of Calderon is the species of “hope and change” everyone expected. Go ahead… tell me.