I don't think this is a good idea Barack....

[Saturday]

Saying Lou Dobbs said we should "send them all back". Not true BO. Why not just ignore Lou? Stupid IMO.

[NightWatcher]

1. screw lou. must Obama address every wacky racist rw'er on tv?

that'd take forever

[Saturday]

4. That's my point. He DID address Lou. WHY????

[babylonsister]

2. Whatcha yadayadayada-ing about? nt

[Saturday]

5. Barack said that Lou and Rush "wanted to send back" illegals.

Just now on his show Lou said he had never said that. Why would Barack even talk about Lou in his rallies????

[babylonsister]

9. Thanks. I don't watch him because he's so anti-immigrant it

makes me sick. So he's never said he'd like to fence the US in and get rid of illegals? Maybe I have the wrong impression of Dobbs. And Rush? They do seem like birds of a feather...

[Straight Shooter]

3. Well, if Lou Dobbs didn't say that, then Barack has antagonized a major mouthpiece in the media.

Smooth move.

[Saturday]

7. Exactly. Inexperience maybe? nt

[Straight Shooter]

13. No. Now that I think about it, it's a calculated maneuver.

Obama's base despises Dobbs, for the most part. Too bad the right wing thinks he's golden. Dobbs is the one who kept the Pelosi/plane brouhaha going far longer than it should have, even after being informed of the truth by the Sargeant at Arms.

Obama is probably betting the positive returns from his comment will outweight the negatives.

[Saturday]

23. Obama mentioned Rush too. Interesting.

[rodeodance]

oh oh --see this also

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[Straight Shooter]

36. Yup.

Just goes to show each side has their little albatrosses hanging around.

Hey rodeodance

[walldude]

32. Yeah well if Dobbs hasn't used those exact words

he has certainly come very close. But I do agree, Obama needs to be ignoring all of theis shit and keep his eye oin the prize. He can start fighting back for real if he gets the nomination.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. “We round up all illegal aliens [put] them into boxcars..."

“...and send them all back to Mexico in the middle of the night…”

-Steve Camarota, guest on Lou Dobbs Tonight

[Saturday]

8. Lou Dobbs didn't say it. Why not address who said it? nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. If he's going to give white supremacists a platform on his show...

then he's going to have to reap the whirlwind.

Why are you defending this?

[Saturday]

12. Because he didn't say! It is stupid for Barack to misquote Lou.

Just plain stupid.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

16. Was he directly quoting Dobbs?

Link?

[Saturday]

17. Lou showed the video of the rally where he said it. I don't have it.nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

20. Video, eh?

So then how do you know it was supposed to be a direct quote?

[Elidor]

33. Lou Dobbs gives a platform to people who say stuff like that

Then there was Lou's incredibly wrong reporting that aliens have dramatically increased the TB rate in America. The Southern Poverty Law Center has criticized him for giving airtime to white supremacists. Lou is selling a very sophisticated formula of hate and loathing, packaged in a professional veneer and made to look respectable enough that people can discuss right out in public just how those illegals are all ruining our great country. He is a rat.

[AtomicKitten]

11. I have no problem with Obama going after that racist phuck.

[Saturday]

19. With a misquote? Lou has a huge audience, why antagonize

them for no reason? Obama didn't have to even go there.

[AtomicKitten]

31. There should be ZERO tolerance for the racism that permeates the immigration issue.

Dobbs has been promoting a policy fueled by fear and hatred, and we've got too much of that sh*t polluting this country as it is. Obama promotes a comprehensive but fair and compassionate immigration policy. Dobbs is a sanctimonious sh*t who has nothing but contempt for fair and compassionate immigration policy. I see nothing wrong with confronting head-on that precise mindset which Obama rejects. We're going to have to go toe-to-toe on immigration at some point during this election, so in my view he's just getting out ahead of it. Other opinions may vary.

[malik flavors]

14. Why are we defending Lou Dobbs?

[mculator]

15. Everything Barack does is expected of a rookie.

DU majority supporting him? That's the JOKE.

[angie_love]

24. You're the joke. Why do you care so much about DU majority supporting Obama?

Does it hurt your wittle feelings? LOL

[Saturday]

27. Go away unless you can be civil. nt

[Cogito ergo doleo]

18. Lou Dobbs: We Can Deport All Undocumented Immigrants

From Think Progress:

Lou Dobbs: We Can Deport All Undocumented Immigrants ‘Because This Is The United States’

In a 60 Minutes interview last night, CNN’s Lou Dobbs said that, while he has never explicitly called for the mass deportation of all undocumented immigrants living in the United States, he believes it can be done.

“When this president and open-borders, illegal-alien-amnesty advocates say, ‘You can’t deport them,’ my answer is, ‘You wanna bet?’ Because this is the United States,” Dobbs said.

Host Lesley Stahl followed up, “If you think it’s possible. How’s it possible?” Said Dobbs: “I think this country can do anything it sets its mind to.”

Watch it:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/dobbs-mass-deportat...

[Saturday]

21. Being able to do it and wanting to do it are 2 different things...

as he just said on his show. He just said exactly what you listed.

[Cogito ergo doleo]

28. He's putting a fine point to it, imo, but his point is not lost on me.

[NJSecularist]

22. Let's hope Barack piles on that fat piece of shit

Dobbs' revived his pathetic career by being a vile fear-mongerer.

[Saturday]

26. We're having a conversation here. Go away unless you can be civil. nt

[pdxmom]

25. He hasn't outright called for it, but he sure as hell supports it. Here is

a link to a portion of a CBS interview:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/07/dobbs-mass-deportat...

[Saturday]

30. He denied it on his show and has a large audience.

Why start something with Lou Dobbs for no reason?

[pdxmom]

38. Oh, I'd agree with that. Lou has a very vocal audience. They want to draft

him to run for president. Lou has also been known to outright lie about his past statements, to the point of being presented with video, he still denied it.

Lou is an ass. I've met him personally and he's a lot nicer on TV than he is in person. Sad, but true.

[Cogito ergo doleo]

39. When he makes statements like this he leaves himself open to

contextual interpretation, and he knows it. He brings this on himself by making such comments, and he's never been the least bit ambiguous about his position.

[high density]

29. Why is everybody afraid of this blowhard?

Lou Dobbs is an ass. I couldn't care less if his feelings are hurt.

[Straight Shooter]

34. It isn't fear, it's recognition of his ability to get a theme going and keep it going.

As I mentioned above, the Pelosi/plane "scandal" that never was a scandal, but Dobbs invented it and even now people believe Pelosi demanded a hoity-toity plane for her hoity-toity self.

I really got tired of setting people straight about that issue. Dobbs continued to bang that drum even after the facts were made absolutely clear.

[WyLoochka]

35. So what?

Lou Dobbs and other pundits mischaracterize what our candidates say almost 98% of the time. And they have much less of an excuse! It is their job to report accurately on what candidates say and what their postions are.

It is not Obama's job to sit around watching Lou Dobbs everyday so he can be sure he will be precisely correct regarding all the minutae of the nativist, xenophobic bull shit Dobbs spews.

[Occam Bandage]

37. Poor Lou Dobbs. All he wants to do is get rid of all the brown people. Why is Obama being mean?