Okay he says that Bush was right about something- hey they guy isn't perfect... but this article almost is.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/leonard_pitts/14448101.htmThen Bush was selected president, and the compassion went out of his conservatism like air from a leaky tire.
For the record, I agree with the president. The notion of mass deportations is a xenophobic joke. It is also a logistical nightmare (how do you move an estimated 11 million people, even assuming they wanted to go?) and an emotional time bomb (picture a distraught, U.S.-born child, reaching out for the Mexican mother who is being taken away from her by federal authorities. Now multiply that by 11 million).
No, the president has it right. That said, though, I am stopped by his reminder -- his compassionate reminder -- that the immigration debate is a debate about human beings. After all, since Richard Nixon's infamous ''Southern strategy'' of the late '60s, his party has sought, won and retained power largely by encouraging voters to ignore and deny the humanity of people who were not like them.
In Nixon's era, it was blacks. In Ronald Reagan's era, it was blacks. And yes, in George H.W. Bush's era -- call for Willie Horton -- it was blacks again. Bush the younger has added a new wrinkle: gays. Indeed, the Grand Old Party has some Middle Americans so afeared that gays are coming to take their children away that one imagines the poor folks hunkered down with a shotgun, ready to shoot at the first sight of a rainbow bumper sticker.
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