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butterbean · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 2271

Look at what happened to Miami," stated Colorado Congressman and immigration reform leader Tom Tancredo. "It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you're in the United States of America. You would certainly say you're in a Third World County," Tancredo told a crown of conservative activists in Palm Beach.

This comment, not surprisingly, has created a political spectacle that would rival the effect of a bottle of Cuervo at a Cinco de Mayo celebration.

The rush to the spotlight to be the first to rebuke Tancredo's words was furious and Florida Governor Jeb Bush was among the first to issue Tancredo a stinging criticism. "The bottom line," wrote Bush, "is Miami is wonderful city filled with diversity and heritage and we choose to celebrate, not insult." Bush further stated that "Miami has been my home for years and I am looking forward to returning there in January." Something tells this author that the good Governor will be moving to Fisher Island and not the barrios of this North American Rio.

Bush, however, was not alone for long in the condemnation of Tancredo as many of our elected officials sought to quickly appease the gods of political correctness.

While taking a more congenial tone, Miami Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen told the media that her colleague was "flat out wrong" about Miami. Ros-Lehtinen then invited the Colorado congressman to visit Miami and enjoy the city's hospitality. "Come on down, Tom, the water's fine," said Ros-Lehtinen. The water, congresswoman, was never in question.

And finally, Miami Mayor Manny Diaz had the harshest response to Tancredo, going as far as to subtly link the congressman to hate mongering.

"Most of us are pretty offended down here," Mayor Diaz told Tucker Carlson of MSNBC. "I think it is pretty sad when you have an American in Colorado almost classifying an American in Miami as a second class citizen." And with visions of Rosa Parks dancing through the heads of those listening, Diaz went in for the kill and whipped out the big burrito: "I think that breeds hatred." Thus capturing the moral San Juan Hill.

So, in order to recap this fireball of a fiesta, we have learned that stating the obvious about a city battered by immigration, drugs and crime insults the city's diversity.

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