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boricua79 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-11-08 11:18 AM
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10. no human being is illegal
and let's not get carried away. Hillary is no friend to Latinos. She waffled on a lot of issues affecting Latinos in NYC, and a I remember that she wasn't particularly supportive of Puerto Ricans on the island of Vieques when the U.S. Navy was using depleted uranium and condemning the island's residents to an eternity of higher cancer rates and genetic mutations/diseases. She only "came around" when she realized the major political gaffe she had committed and felt she'd lose the Latino vote in NYC.

Hillary is a two-faced politician, first and foremost. She goes where the wind is blowing. I'm very convinced that if 95% of Americans felt the Navy should stay in Vieques, but Puerto Ricans felt otherwise, she would have called for the Navy to stay. The moral position on what was right or wrong wouldn't have mattered. She's not someone of conscience, who would be willing to end up in jail (as many priests, and activists did in Vieques) for what's right. She does what is convenient and politically advantageous.

And, frankly, I hate "leaders" like that. That's why she won't get my vote.

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