BNP leader Nick Griffin shows America’s anti-immigration xenophobes how they do it across the pond.

Boats carrying migrants from Africa to Europe should be sunk to stop Europe being ’swamped by the Third World’, British National Party leader Nick Griffin has said.

Mr Griffin, one of two members of the extreme-right party elected to the European Parliament last month, said occupants of sunk boats could be given life rafts to get back to Africa.

A few months ago conservative magazines were cheering on the election of a few righties in Europe as a good thing for them as we were supposedly being cast into communism by Mullah Obama… this is what they got.

I reserve the right to be totally wrong on this, but I dunno…

2008 Hispanic Vote
67% Obama 31% McCain

The GOP has alienated the fastest growing set of Americans, possibly for a generation.

Si Se Puede.

In 2006, Limbaugh went after Michael J. Fox’s Parkinsons disease because Fox advocated for Claire McCaskill. The backlash probably helped McCaskill to win her senate seat.

Limbaugh has admitted that he carries water for the Republicans, and nothing would be better for his show’s content than a Democratic president.

Perhaps we need to send him some roses after election day?

Obama’s “strategy is, ‘If I can just deliver the votes that I know exist, whether it’s in the minority community or the youth,’ or whatever the coalition is that he’s got . . . ‘then I can win this election,’ ” Davis said. “We can run our campaign the way we want to run it and not be in direct conflict with a lot of voter groups he is trying to get.”

The look in the convention hall is similar to that of a typical McCain event. This summer, for instance, 67 people showed up for one of his town hall meetings in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. One of them was black.

The lack of diversity is out of sync with the demographic changes in the United States. The Census Bureau reported last month that racial and ethnic minorities will make up a majority of the country’s population by 2042 — almost a decade earlier than what the bureau predicted just four years ago. Two-thirds of Americans are non-Hispanic whites, 12.4 percent are black and 14.8 percent are Hispanic, according to 2006 census numbers.

What has helped Republicans is that working-class whites, a bloc they rely on, are more likely to vote than other groups. “But if there is a loss this time, and it is attributed to a smaller and smaller base of white voters, there might be a rethinking” of GOP strategy, said Robert E. Lang, co-director of Virginia Tech’s Metropolitan Institute, which studies demographics and other development patterns.

As a Democrat it is pretty heartening to hear the GOP simply writing off non-white voters. This is a country that is increasingly becoming less white, day by day. If your message is targeted to one monoculture, and your noise machine largely run by that monoculture, you have no way of knowing how out of touch you are. Most Republican pols and conservatives simply have no true gauge for when they’re speaking in an exclusionary manner. It’s natural. For the Democratic party to exist it must appeal to all races – period. It’s no coincidence that most minorities in federal office are Democrats and the few times the Republicans try to dress up their monoculture policies in the guise of a minority they suffer double digit defeats like Michael Steele (Steele lost the black vote 74% to 25%).

The Republicans, even more than in the past, have decided to get their monochromatic base motivated to the exclusion of everyone else. Heck, they put the wife of a separatist on the ticket! I don’t know if that’s going to be the key to their failure this go-around (their anti-Hispanic tirades sure didn’t help in 2006), but it isn’t going to help – and in the near future it is going to be a disaster. I’m okay with that, but then… I’m a Democrat.

Hispanic registered voters prefer Democratic Sen. Barack Obama over GOP opponent John McCain by 66 to 33 percent, according to a study just released by the Pew Research Center. The presidential candidates have battled for the Hispanic vote, which could play a key role in four expected battleground states.

Hispanic voters seem to have easily transferred their support from Sen. Hillary Clinton to Obama. The nonpartisan research organization found that more than three-fourths of Latinos who voted for Sen. Hillary Clinton in the primaries now support Obama. During the primaries, Hispanic voters favored Clinton by a ratio of nearly two-to-one.

Hispanic voters have a chance in November to fully repudiate the party and political movement that has made much sport out of dehumanizing them.

Of course, as the amount of Hispanics in America increases, the more intolerant conservative rhetoric becomes. It’s almost like they keep throwing the ball to our best cornerback no matter what the formation is.

And in a related note from Planet Duh, Sen. Obama leads among black voters 90-4. That 4% will come around.

“Senator Kennedy and I tried very hard to get immigration reform, a comprehensive plan, through the Congress of the United States,” he said. “It is a federal responsibility and because of our failure as a federal obligation, we’re seeing all these various conflicts and problems throughout our nation as different towns, cities, counties, whatever they are, implement different policies and different programs which makes things even worse and even more confusing.”

Sometimes the mask slips and cons say what they truly believe. We must cherish those moments.

Even better is the big Christian gold cross she wears around her neck.

Republican Tom Tancredo supports the border wall. The U.S. representative attended the hearing in Brownsville yesterday.

During the hearing, he told the Brownsville landowners, “I suggest that you build this fence around the northern part of your city…” implying that all of Brownsville should be on the Mexican side of the wall.

A 13-year-old girl who claimed she was attacked by a group inside Athens Middle School was caught on a surveillance camera causing the injuries to herself.

The girl now faces disciplinary action from the school and will be charged with filing a false police report, AISD superintendent Fred Hayes said during a news conference today.

The parents of Melanie Bowers have since sent letters of apology to school and law enforcement investigators.

Hayes said officials in investigating the matter saw the tape that caught her scratching herself on the arms and neck. Last week she had claimed the injuries were inflicted by a group of about 20 students who also threatened to sexually assault and kill her.

The girl had participated in a history class project with a “protest” theme. She brought to school a protest sign reading “If you love your country stop illegal immigration.”

She claimed she was attacked because of the sign.