Newsweek Insults Barack Obama As an 'Anchor Baby'
Published: 9/3/2010 2:09 AM ET
There's a movement afoot to alter the 14th amendment, the one that guarantees citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil. Combine this with anti-immigrant policies like Arizona's and you begin to question the idea of America as a melting pot - as a nation of mothers and fathers welcomed here to seek better lives. But the country has benefited richly from their sons and daughters (right).An "anchor baby" is a child born to parents in the U.S. illegally, so is the magazine suggesting that Obama's father, as well as parents of the 32 others in their list, were all illegal aliens at the time of the births of their famous offspring? Talk about flinging scurrilous allegations and encouraging the "birther" crowd.
The
outlandish stories about Barack Hussein Obama are simply false: he
wasn't born outside the United States (the tabloid "proof" has been
debunked as a crude forgery); he has never been a Muslim (he was raised
by an atheist and became a practicing Christian in his 20s); his
policies are not "socialist" (he explicitly rejected advice to
nationalize the banks and wants the government out of General Motors and
Chrysler as quickly as possible); he is not a "warmonger" (he promised
in 2008 to withdraw from Iraq and escalate in Afghanistan and has done
so); he is neither a coddler of terrorists (he has already ordered the
killing of more "high value" Qaeda targets in 18 months than his
predecessor did in eight years), nor a coddler of Wall Street (his
financial-reform package, while watered down, was the most vigorous
since the New Deal), nor an enemy of American business (he and the
Chamber of Commerce favor tax credits for small business that were
stymied by the GOP to deprive him of a victory). And that's just the
short list of lies.
