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            <title>La promesa de Barack</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Por Jorge Ramos&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Incre&amp;iacute;ble. Esa es la palabra que describe el triunfo de Barack Obama. Hace 150 a&amp;ntilde;os Barack Obama, en lugar de ser presidente, podr&amp;iacute;a haber sido un esclavo en Estados Unidos. Hace 50 a&amp;ntilde;os, lejos de lanzarse a la presidencia, Barack Obama no hubiera podido ni siquiera votar en varios estados sure&amp;ntilde;os.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No deja de sorprender que su triunfo es, tambi&amp;eacute;n, una impresionante y bienvenida correcci&amp;oacute;n hist&amp;oacute;rica de un pa&amp;iacute;s que por d&amp;eacute;cadas permiti&amp;oacute; la esclavitud y que, a&amp;uacute;n hoy, sufre de racismo y discriminaci&amp;oacute;n. La secci&amp;oacute;n 2 del art&amp;iacute;culo 1 de la Constituci&amp;oacute;n de Estados Unidos defend&amp;iacute;a el derecho a tener esclavos. Y por mucho tiempo el censo cont&amp;oacute; a cada afroamericano como tres quintas partes de una persona.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Esta elecci&amp;oacute;n es un enorme avance. Demuestra que un ni&amp;ntilde;o que naci&amp;oacute; en una familia pobre, de un padre inmigrante de Kenia, y que luego qued&amp;oacute; hu&amp;eacute;rfano, puede llegar a Harvard, al Senado y a la Casa Blanca. Eso dif&amp;iacute;cilmente puede ocurrir en otro pa&amp;iacute;s.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Es incre&amp;iacute;ble que alguien con un nombre tan similar al de Osama bin Laden haya roto los prejuicios surgidos luego del 11 de septiembre del 2001 y, venciendo la formidable maquinaria de los Clinton en las elecciones primarias, le haya ganado la presidencia a un h&amp;eacute;roe de guerra.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Estados Unidos se atrevi&amp;oacute; a romper varios mitos en la pasada elecci&amp;oacute;n. Un afroamericano por fin lleg&amp;oacute; a la presidencia. Pero dos mujeres --Hillary Clinton y Sarah Palin-- tambi&amp;eacute;n estuvieron muy cerca de la Casa Blanca. Y un soldado de 72 a&amp;ntilde;os demostr&amp;oacute; que no hay edad l&amp;iacute;mite para gobernar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Es 2008 el a&amp;ntilde;o en que los norteamericanos rompieron los prejuicios de raza, g&amp;eacute;nero y edad. Todo en una sola elecci&amp;oacute;n. El genio de Estados Unidos, dijo Obama en su discurso de victoria, radica en su capacidad de cambio y en su confianza en tres ideas: libertad, oportunidad y democracia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Otro de los grandes logros de las pasadas votaciones es que tanto Barack Obama como John McCain estuvieron de acuerdo en hacer algo por los 12 o 13 millones de indocumentados. Si se fijan, el tema migratorio brill&amp;oacute; por su ausencia en debates, anuncios y entrevistas porque los dos coincid&amp;iacute;an en la necesidad de una reforma migratoria integral. Eso evit&amp;oacute; los frecuentes ataques contra los indocumentados que, en &amp;eacute;pocas de crisis como &amp;eacute;sta, son culpados injustamente de todos los problemas del pa&amp;iacute;s. Ya pas&amp;oacute; el momento de las promesas y ahora Barack Obama tiene que pensar en c&amp;oacute;mo cumplirlas. Hay una en particular que quiero destacar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;No puedo garantizar que va a pasar en los primeros 100 d&amp;iacute;as&amp;quot;, me dijo Barack Obama en una entrevista en mayo. &amp;quot;Pero lo que s&amp;iacute; puedo garantizar es que en el primer a&amp;ntilde;o tendremos propuesta de reforma migratoria&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Es una promesa muy grande. Podr&amp;iacute;a legalizar, es decir, convertir en ciudadanos norteamericanos a millones de personas que se encuentran ilegalmente en Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, el asunto no ser&amp;iacute;a una fiesta.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cuando le pregunt&amp;eacute; si &amp;eacute;l suspender&amp;iacute;a las redadas y las deportaciones, que est&amp;aacute;n separando a tantas familias hispanas, no se quiso comprometer. &amp;quot;Eso es parte de la revisi&amp;oacute;n de nuestras pol&amp;iacute;ticas que tendr&amp;eacute; que hacer al tomar posesi&amp;oacute;n&amp;quot;, me dijo. En otras palabras, una presidencia de Obama no significa necesariamente el fin de las redadas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Barack Obama vot&amp;oacute; en el Senado a favor de la construcci&amp;oacute;n de un nuevo muro de 700 millas en la frontera con M&amp;eacute;xico. Obama, que quede claro, no va a abrir la frontera sur. &amp;quot;Necesitamos mayor vigilancia y seguridad en la frontera&amp;quot;, me dijo. Y no s&amp;oacute;lo eso. &amp;quot;Tenemos que enfrentar a compa&amp;ntilde;&amp;iacute;as y empleadores que est&amp;aacute;n contratando a indocumentados, para asegurarnos de que est&amp;eacute;n cumpliendo las leyes norteamericanas&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Debemos quitarnos la idea de que la reforma migratoria que nos prometi&amp;oacute; Obama s&amp;oacute;lo va a incluir la legalizaci&amp;oacute;n. Ese elemento important&amp;iacute;simo no podr&amp;aacute; ser aprobado en el Congreso, aunque tenga una amplia mayor&amp;iacute;a dem&amp;oacute;crata, si no hay mayor control en la frontera y en la contrataci&amp;oacute;n de indocumentados.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pero hay m&amp;aacute;s. Barack Obama, contrario a la pol&amp;iacute;tica del actual presidente Bush, cree que hay que incluir a M&amp;eacute;xico, de alguna manera, en el asunto migratorio. &amp;quot;Creo que es muy importante acercarnos al gobierno mexicano y descubrir lo que tenemos que hacer del otro lado de la frontera para promover el desarrollo econ&amp;oacute;mico y la creaci&amp;oacute;n de empleos all&amp;aacute;&amp;quot;, me dijo en otra entrevista a finales de octubre. &amp;quot;Mientras sigamos siendo un im&amp;aacute;n econ&amp;oacute;mico, y la gente no pueda mantener a sus familias en M&amp;eacute;xico, va a ser casi imposible enfrentar el problema migratorio a largo plazo&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Barack Obama tiene enormes retos que enfrentar cuando tome la presidencia y la pregunta es si va a cumplir su promesa de lograr un acuerdo migratorio el primer a&amp;ntilde;o. Y se lo pregunt&amp;eacute;. &amp;quot;Entiendo lo que me dices&amp;quot;, respondi&amp;oacute;, &amp;quot;y por eso no quiero comprometerme (a una reforma migratoria) en los primeros 100 d&amp;iacute;as&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cuando habl&amp;eacute; con Obama la primera vez, antes de que estallara la actual crisis financiera, me dijo que tendr&amp;iacute;a cinco prioridades durante su primer a&amp;ntilde;o de gobierno: Irak, seguro m&amp;eacute;dico, energ&amp;iacute;a, educaci&amp;oacute;n y migraci&amp;oacute;n. Y ahora no sabemos si ampliar&amp;aacute; a seis sus prioridades en los primeros 365 d&amp;iacute;as, incluyendo la econom&amp;iacute;a, o si sacar&amp;aacute; la reforma migratoria de sus proyectos para el primer a&amp;ntilde;o.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Y es ah&amp;iacute; donde los hispanos debemos presionar. Barack Obama quer&amp;iacute;a el voto de los latinos, &amp;eacute;l prometi&amp;oacute; una reforma migratoria en el primer a&amp;ntilde;o, y la mayor&amp;iacute;a de los hispanos (67%) votaron por &amp;eacute;l. Los latinos ya cumplieron. Ahora le toca cumplir a Obama.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;El Nuevo Herald - Martes 11 de noviembre del 2008&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Email: jesusgonzalez [en] gmail.com&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:01:07 EST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Jesus Gonzalez</dc:creator>
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            <title>Democratic Debate in TX:  Proud to be part of the &quot;Delusional&quot;!</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Of course I watched the debate tonite...looked forward to it.&amp;nbsp; There were a few moments I thought, &amp;quot;Well let&#039;s all just hug and sing &amp;quot;&#039;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.easyweigh.com/kumbaya.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Kumbaya&lt;/a&gt;&#039;&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; I was getting a bit aggravated.&amp;nbsp; If we are going to debate, then let&#039;s debate.&amp;nbsp; No need at all to mudsling, but I think it&#039;s vital to make the differences known especially to those on the fence.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Who else loved UNIVISION&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?cid=244257&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Jorge Ramos&lt;/a&gt;?&amp;nbsp; This man knows how to ask a question.&amp;nbsp; He did not let Hil keep on babbling (or if she did) he came right back to the question.&amp;nbsp; Gracias Jorge.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It amazes me that Clinton considers herself to be able to work across party lines.&amp;nbsp; Moreover,&amp;nbsp; how can anyone think she will be a leader the world will come to respect if she will not speak to anyone unless they meet &amp;quot;A-Z&amp;quot; criteria and then some?&amp;nbsp; Sounds like she and Bush have more in common than she might realize.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Perhaps it is Mrs. Clinton who needs the&amp;nbsp;infamous &amp;quot;reality check&amp;quot;?&amp;nbsp;Obama is exactly right:&amp;nbsp; The next prez is going to have to work that much harder&amp;nbsp;in showing diplomacy to others because of the last eight years.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I also find it&amp;nbsp;intriguing that when push comes to shove Clinton can simply just throw Bush&#039;s name around to get a &amp;quot;shoe-in&amp;quot; applause.&amp;nbsp; How many times does she have to mention the obvious negatives vs. Obama to get some cheer coming her way?&amp;nbsp; Seriously look in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/21/debate.transcript/index.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;transcript&lt;/a&gt; to see the numerous references.&amp;nbsp; Another point that I&#039;m going to get off my chest since I&#039;m rambling and it&#039;s my blog and I&amp;nbsp;can (and yes I know this is a run on sentence)&amp;nbsp;is that if she does not want to be running as Bill&#039;s wife then &#039;tis best&amp;nbsp;not to make mention of he/nor his administration in speeches, debates, etc, etc.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;If you are going to run, run on your own.&amp;nbsp; Enough said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Back to debate tonite!&amp;nbsp; As expected, I&amp;nbsp;was not surprised with Sen. Obama&#039;s ability to deflect the negativism away and steer and stay on point.&amp;nbsp; Could this be a sign of a good leader?&amp;nbsp; Hmmm.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ugggggghhhhhhh (sorry it&#039;s the only word that will come to mind) with Hillary.&amp;nbsp; Did anyone else want someone with a big &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.voicenet.com/~rburton/mallet/mallet.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;mallet&lt;/a&gt; to come out of the ceiling and hit her on the head (not to hurt her, just to get her to stop babbbling).&amp;nbsp; Enough already with her resume.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are times when I think Obama could become almost borderline pacificist in these debates, but just when I think that he makes a stinger of a comment that is &lt;a href=&quot;http://youtube.com/watch?v=ebu0OBa1pus&amp;amp;feature=related&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Muhammad Ali-like&lt;/a&gt; (get the &amp;quot;stinger&amp;quot; metaphor?) is eloquent, substantial and subtle but not too subtle and yet still not a personal attack really, know what I mean?&amp;nbsp; Good.&amp;nbsp; What a true diplomat, true leader and true next president of our country!!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;How&amp;nbsp;sad that Clinton had to mention plagiarism w/Obama&#039;s speeches.&amp;nbsp; She got &lt;a href=&quot;http://abhishek.tiwari.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/thumbs-down.gif&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;booed&lt;/a&gt; on the Xerox comment and deservedly so.&amp;nbsp;Are you kidding me?&amp;nbsp; Obama handled that non-issue with such grace and finesse.&amp;nbsp; IMO to undecided voters that only shows that she is hurting for votes.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also interesting- though not surprising- was the question&amp;nbsp;about the Democratic Party nomination process basically re: superdelegates and Hillary&#039;s &amp;quot;whatever happens, happens&amp;quot; attitude (interesting since she has so many more sd&#039;s...would that attitude be the same if the tables were turned?&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Dtfi3VkiU&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Hmmmm&lt;/a&gt;...) and Obama&#039;s&amp;nbsp;supplication that it would be a shame if it wasn&#039;t the public that was truly represented.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One last thought, Hillary got to close the debate...I thought we might see tears again (sniff, sniff)...did anyone else think that her speech at the end was sincere or had moments of sincerity?&amp;nbsp; It&#039;s just she is so the &amp;quot;politician&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; I could see perhaps at one time in her career, IMO that she truly did want change and wasn&#039;t &amp;quot;playing politics&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; It&#039;s just not now.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lastly a quote from opening of brilliant Obama regarding lobbyists:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The problem we have is that Washington has become a place where good ideas go to die. They go to die because the lobbyists and special interests have a strangle-hold on the agenda in Washington. They go to die in Washington because too many politicians are interested in scoring political points rather than bridging differences in order to get things done.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And so the central premise of this campaign is that we can bring this country together, that we can push against the special interests that have come to dominate the agenda in Washington, that we can be straight with the American people about how we&#039;re going to solve these problems and enlist them in taking back their government.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You know, Senator Clinton mentioned Barbara Jordan, somebody who was an inspiration to me and so many people throughout the country. And she said that what the American people want is very simple: They want an America that is as good as its promise. I&#039;m running for president because I want to help America be as good as its promise.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thank you very much.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thank you, Senator Obama&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:00:37 EST</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Michele Grooms</dc:creator>
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            <title>Historic Presidential Debate with Jorge and Maria</title>
            <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://my.barackobama.com/page/-/NV/NV%20Blog/Presidencial%20democrata.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;345&quot; height=&quot;204&quot; /&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Picture from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.univision.com/content/channel.jhtml?chid=3&amp;amp;schid=10414&quot;&gt;Destino 2008&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;The Obama Campaign in Nevada is enthusiastically anticipating the historic Spanish-language presidential debate at the University of Miami Sunday night. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Many of our supporters and communities all across Nevada rank immigration as one of their most pressing concerns.&amp;nbsp; This debate has been a long time coming and we are looking forward to a national debate on these important issues.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;This debate is also an opportunity for the Hispanic community to learn more about Barack Obama&amp;rsquo;s record of fighting for real change and standing up for comprehensive immigration reform, of fighting against health care disparities and of challenging the failed policies of the last seven years.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Many of us here at the Nevada HQ are also HUGE fans of Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas.&amp;nbsp; Once you have read about their great work we are SURE you will feel the same way!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;...&lt;a href=&quot;http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post_group/NVHQ/CcvD&quot;&gt;More After the Fold&lt;/a&gt;...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 19:28:56 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Zachary Scott Edwards</dc:creator>
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