4/27/10: Obama Gets His Facts Wrong on Arizona Immigration Bill

Not only did he get his facts wrong, but he tried to ratchet up the fear and anger by bringing kids and ice cream into his faux-parable. In other words, Obama is lying (again):

President Obama said at an Iowa town hall meeting today that the controversial immigration legislation signed into law Friday could lead to racial profiling.

"You know, you can try to make it really tough on people who look like they, quote, might be illegal immigrants," he said.

The president added that a Hispanic American whose family had been in the United States for generations faced a situation in which "now suddenly if you don't have your papers and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you can be harassed, that's something that could potentially happen."

Source: CBS News

This has Alinsky written all over it - just like Obama's reaction to the Cambridge police incident. Frugal Cafe puts it all into perspective:

Where does it say that anywhere in the new Arizona law? The One is using deliberately selected Gestapo-esque language, meant to fool (HA!) the nation on the actual content of the law, meant to scare and/or anger all legal Latino citizens. The AZ law mimics the 70-year-old federal law on citizenship and illegal immigration. He’s maligning the Phoenix police on a bogus hypothetical tale… correction, maligning ALL police officers in Arizona… on the insulting, groundless assumption they will happily target and harass all law-abiding American Hispanics going out for family ice cream cones with their children — the emotional kickers mixed into this lie are kids and ice cream.

What a jackass — this Alinsky/Marxist-style lie sounds like something a hateful, lying race-baiter like Rev. Al Sharpton would make up in his sleep. But it’s the president of the United States of America insulting an entire state and its police force — just when you think the Democrat party can’t sink into the pool of fecal matter any deeper, we get this.

It’s the Cambridge, Massachusetts police force nightmare — times a thousand. Obama merely called them “stupid,” whereas he’s strongly insinuating that he believes that Arizona cops are… what exactly? Racists? Rogues? Zealots? Nazis?

Source: Frugal Cafe

Kerry Picket at the Washington Times goes further - pointing out that Obama's ice cream shop demagoguery is a poor choice of symbolism.