Dick Morris On Obama And Illegal Immigration

Dick Morris has some interesting analysis about Obama and the illegal immigration debate: "When Obama could have passed comprehensive immigration reform – when he still had 60 Senate Democrats – he didn’t lift a finger to push it. Now that he can’t pass it – it is too late in the year, he doesn’t have 60 votes, and many Democrats will defect – he aggressively pushes it in a national speech.
The opportunism and hypocrisy of his attempt to manipulate America’s Latinos into forgetting his previous inaction is transparent and obvious. Polls show him losing Hispanics due to high and continuing unemployment and losing Congressional seats in the bargain, so Obama has dug up the immigration proposals of former President George W. Bush, dusted them off, and made them his own. He knows it won’t pass. But he hopes that it will reignite Latino enthusiasm for his failing presidency and anger at Republicans for frustrating immigration reform."....The cynicism of Obama in kindling hopes for amnesty only to see them certainly dashed is breathtaking. And his pushing the false choice of amnesty — when eliminating the jobs that fuel illegal immigration is a readily available solution – is revolting.
He doesn’t want a law. He wants a fight and he wants the votes that a fight may bring him. It is Chicago polarizing politics at its very worst."
http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2010/07/01/obamas-immigration-hypocrisy/#more-1139
Basically, Morris is saying that Obama is using Hispanics in order to make the GOP look bad. Obama wouldn't be the first politician to use a racial or ethnic group to play politics. Hell, look how the Democrats use Blacks and Native Americans over the many years and look which ethnic groups have the highest poverty rate.
So, Obama, Reid and Pelosi are going to try for immigration reform that includes amnesty for the illegals already here. They could have done it earlier, when the Dem's had a filibuster proof Senate, but they shoved the Hispanics under the bus. They know they won't win because a bunch of Democrats will not support them, but Obama, Reid and Pelosi don't care about that. As long as they can throw Hispanics under the bus for political fains, they don't care.