Obama's Immigration Hypocrisy

It hardly seems possible, but Barack Hussein Obama has managed to hit a new low in cynicism and hypocrisy.

Barack Obama's immigration speech in El Paso, Texas, on May 10 was an exercise in electioneering and hypocrisy. Hypocrisy because while Obama complained about "politicians" blocking comprehensive immigration bills, he was one of them himself.
 
In 2007, when such a bill was backed by a lame-duck Republican president and had bipartisan backing from Senate heavyweights Edward Kennedy and Jon Kyl, Sen. Obama voted for union-backed amendments that Kennedy and Kyl opposed as bill killers. 

In 2009 and 2010, President Obama acquiesced in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to pass cap and trade and bypass immigration, and in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's decision not to bring an immigration bill to the floor.

Both times the votes were probably there to pass a bill. Obama did not lift a finger to help.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/05/obamas-hypocritical-rhetoric-immigration-reform#ixzz1MQGTKGYk