I’m a liberal Democrat who listens to Lou Dobbs all the time. I don’t always agree with him, but I have never heard him say anything I would consider racist.

Does anyone have some examples?

The above definitions have been taken from Websters.

Sometimes people forget that words have many meanings. If Def. b is used the term alien has no racial overtones. Being 60, I grew up in a time when the word “alien” was frequently used simply to describe someone from another country not from outer space with all the negative associations with monster movies. I sometimes think that advocates for open borders or amnesty like to make a big thing out of the word “alien” to give such use racial overtones.

Perhaps, there are millions of illegal immigrants, the phrase that I choose to use simply from my penchant for “political correctness” (sarcasm here), who do not have an allegiance to their home country ; but I doubt it. I’m probably 10th generation Irish, yet, I smile and feel very comfortable being called Irish.

I do not use the term “undocumented worker” because:

1. The term implies that the illegal immigrant somehow has the right to work in this country; but just does not have the documents. The law says that such people do not have the legal right to work in this country.

2. Many illegal immigrants do have documents, illegal, false documents sometimes connected with identity theft, currently a crime in this country provided that we do not give that crime amnesty also.

redx @ 51

per some other folks here I am voting Edwards as well. He is (in a poll) slipping in NH which sucks, but I live here and will do what I can.

Right On!!! I used to live in Enfield, right on Lake Mascoma!!!

redx @ 51

per some other folks here I am voting Edwards as well. He is (in a poll) slipping in NH which sucks, …

Yeah, I just saw that Hillary’s lead had jumped-up heavily at Edward’s expense in NH.

It’s not as though we can believe every poll, but do you have any idea what it’s attributable to?

What about the exposes done on them by various reporters, such as the one that appeared in Harpers?

GSD @ 92

Hey, are the left-wing netroots full of Ivory tower liberal elites sipping latte’s and going to the Metropolitan Opera or a bunch of 20 year olds smoking dope in their parents basement and blogging in their patchouli stanking pajammies?

Inquiring minds.

-GSD

No. They are little old ladies sittin at home gettin more pissed by the minute waitin for the rest of America to frickin wake up.

Are they knitting names??

LindaR, I get a sense here people haven’t watched Dobbs either.

I can’t watch, because of the one note theme he embraces, but do see that he does make valid points that many here would agree with.

1. Minimum wage must be increased.

2. Corpratists rule America and need to be stopped.

3. Immigration reform isn’t to help the undocumented workers, it’s to give big business a free pass.

Yes, AnnieW, that’s it.

Why don’t people like the word ALIEN? cause it reminds them of space movies?

The word alien always makes me think of “other”
or not like “us”. They are like us- they are us.