Fifth grader asks Barack Obama tougher question on immigration & terrorism than MSM; Sunlen Miller/Teddy Davis/Nancy Flores/ABC News spin

An Iowa fifth-grader asked Barack Obama a raw version of a tough question about immigration and terrorism. Instead of discussing what parts of the question the kid got right - and what parts Obama's answer got wrong (pretty much all of it) - ABC News is now covering for Barack Obama and suggesting that the threat of terrorist infiltration doesn't exist [1].

Here's the question:
"When you're elected president, what if like the illegal immigrants start to take action and start bombing and stuff?"
Obama should have differentiated between economic-based illegal aliens, those who are coming here to commit crimes, and those who are coming here for reasons related to terrorism. He did not, and Sunlen Miller of ABC News plays along with his misleading statements:
Obama proceded to give Bowman a social sciences lesson, explaining "Immigrants are coming into the country and not blowing things up. They are usually working in meat packing plants, or working in restaurants or working in agriculture, picking vegetables..."

Someone in the crowd yelled "Mitt Romney," and Obama had his straight line.

"Yeah, they are mowing Mitt Romney's yard. I forgot about ol' Mitt, who's got the gall to running all these ads about illegal immigrants."

The crowd roared in laughter but Obama stopped himself there and went on. "We've got a problem with terrorists who are trying to kill us... That's a separate problem from immigrants," Obama assured Bowman.
He didn't give him a lesson, he misled the kid. He also demagogued a non sequitur about Romney and gave an advertisement for illegal activity. And, not just the audience but ABC News ate it up.

The first report as well as the fuller "news" report [2] from Miller as well as Teddy Davis and Nancy Flores both try to trace this back to ads from Tom Tancredo and others.

What would make me extremely happy is if someone in the audience had pointed out all the ways that Obama was being misleading, and had then posted that to video sharing sites. That would have an impact not just on Obama's poll numbers, but the MSM as well.

[1] blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/12/obama-ol-mitt-h.html
[2] abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4003240

Comments

"We've got a problem with terrorists who are trying to kill us... That's a separate problem from immigrants," Obama assured Bowman. Try "assuring" the families of the victims of 9/11 that this is true.

you do understand the globalist may want this pig after all barack obama would do the job real well for the one world people, and he is black, and face facts if the power people want him he will be the next preident and you guy's will say yes and hope for the best it is the way of fools.

In the world news today in Moscow hillary was talking to one of here people and called Obama "a little N And he can't jew me out of the white house', is that being reported in the news here, NO WAY?.. In fact just talked to my Brother in Moscow ON SKYPE.. he ask me if it was coming out on the news what hillary said about Obama? i said you are the first person I heard Who has told me about old hillary saying that..so ask what kind of a political news do we get? "Only the one Party line", it appaers that the system boys may not want hillary and may want this little N In the white house for its own reasons.

The 5 year-old was actually agreeing with Andres Oppenheimer of the Miami Herald. See the latter's op-ed "Latino Intifada" referenced at this website http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/007210.html

Yeah, Obama is right. The terrorists and immigrants are two _completely_ different problems. One attacks and invades us because they are destined to rule the world and we are subhuman infidels. The other attacks and invades us because this is stolen land and we are subhuman Pilgrims. Biiiiiig difference.

Thank you Tanstaafl, its really time to start to see this evil for what it is, and Buy Guns, Or become the dead, and if you think that is nut's just look at history.

Obama was right. There has been no connection so far between illegal immigrants and terrorists. Only haters try to make the connection. Virtually all illegal immigrants are here for economic reasons. If they could get citizenship, they would be loyal.