I thought you were a statistician? Obama didn't assume office until January 2009, so why include the 2008 figures under Obama's deportation numbers? If you included that as a baseline (which you did not say you did), then the numbers actually do not make your point because the average total deportation for 2009 and 2010 is actually less than your 2008 number--which accrued when George W was president. Perhaps my math is off this morning.
Even when you're making a valid point about Obama and your other bete noirs, you tend to mar it with hyperbole, giddy, visceral personal hate, and distortions. And, by the way, I will vote for Obama in spite of his extremely disappointing coddling of Wall Street and his relative insensitivity to the needs and economic anxieties of the main street. I mean, look at his efforts to tackle the economic woes of the country. Most of them are founded on the erroneous and naive belief that if Wall Street heals the real economy will follow as a matter of course. Every effort has favored Wall Street, and an administration filled to the hilt with former Wall Street titans has been unwilling and unable to confront the financial and corporate oligarchy or to make them reciprocate their bailouts by making concessions in the housing industry, lending, and investing their huge cash reserves in the economy. So, here's an Obama supporter who is not thrilled by his economic cowardice. But much as I am disappointed at Obama's tepid and half-hearted economic efforts, the Republicans scare the heck out of me with their blueprint for a return to the destructive trickle down neoliberalism and corporatism that culminated in the recession in the first place.
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Abdul Karim Bangura <theai@earthlink.net> wrote:
A keen observer shared the following data with us just a few minutes ago. It made me ponder why any American African or any other naturalized American citizen would want to vote for Obama in 2012. In addition to dropping bombs, butchering, beheading and lynching Afrikan Libyans and immigrants in that country and Somalia and will soon do the same in Uganda, the Congo and the Central Afrikan Republic, his record on immigrants is dismal, despite his earlier lofty talk about immigration reform from which he has chickened out.--
Deportations Under Obama
YEAR CRIMINAL TOTAL
DEPORTED
2008 114,415 369,221
2009 136,126 387,790
2010 113,453 227,103
Source: The Washington Post
Now that I have given you the stats on Obama as the most anti-immigrant president in American history, never mind that he is also the first American president to drop bombs on Africa.....
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