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World News Outlets Decry Failure of ‘SHAMNESTY’

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Plenty of news outlets are reporting on the failure of the U.S. Senate’s so-called immigration reform plan (i.e., SHAMNESTY), so I decided to check out what foreign news media outlets are writing about the issue. Please know, however, that I’ve opted not to report any news coverage from south of the border. I think most Americans know what kind of reporting we would find in the Mexican news media. And so I begin:

Under the headline, Bush law on aliens collapses, The Australian began their story this way:

US President George W. Bush suffered a devastating setback to his top national reform agenda yesterday when a deal to grant legal status to 12 million illegal immigrants collapsed amid partisan rancour.

From the Philippines, the lead paragraph of a Manila Standard Today article, Immigration reform bill dies; RP vets can’t join kin, focused on the impact the legislation’s failure will have on the children of Filipino World War II veterans:

The failure of the US Senate to advance an immigration bill has stymied Senator Daniel Akaka’s effort to enable the children of Filipino World War II veterans to join their parents in the United States.

Finally, an Irish Examiner article under the headline, Ahern: ‘The fight goes on’ for immigration reform in US, began this way:

The Government today pledged to fight for the rights of undocumented Irish in the United States after the rejection of a major new immigration bill.

That was followed by a statement that Ireland’s Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern said he was disappointed new legislation to provide legal status to thousands of Irish had failed to be ratified by the U.S. Senate.

After reading the articles cited above, one common belief shines through: The United States remains, in the words of Ronald Reagan, a “shining city on a hill” that people worldwide long to enjoy.

Carter Forgets Own Failures, Blasts G.W. Bush

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Can you believe Jimmy Carter has the nerve to blast President George W. Bush about his prowess in the area of international relations? That’s definitely a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

As evidenced in a Bob McCarty Writes post yesterday, I’m not the biggest fan of “W” at this point in time. But after I read the Associated Press article, Carter Blasts Bush on His Global Impact, published this evening, I had to take issue with the liberal peanut farmer from Plains, Ga.

Carter, the 39th president of these United States and a one-term president at that, is quoted as saying the 43rd president’s administration is “the worst in history” in international relations and also bashed Bush’s environmental policies, the Iraq war and the much-ballyhooed faith-based initiative.

Apparently, Carter has Partzheimer’s (a.k.a., Convenient Memory-Loss Syndrome), as evidenced by the fact that he has conveniently forgotten that it was his administration that allowed 52 American hostages to be held hostage for 444 days? Furthermore, Carter’s bare-bones approached to national defense resulted in a botched — and deadly — rescue attempt. Bush hasn’t let something like that happen.

And Carter has conveniently forgotten that it was his during his administration that the Iranian revolution took place. Yes, thanks to good ‘ol Jimmy, we now have the Iranian madman, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatening to use nuclear weapons against Israel, the United States and the West in general. If memory serves me correctly, Bush got rid of a dictator (Saddam Hussein) instead of allowing one to surface under his nose.

And, finally, did I mention that Carter…oh, forget it! I could go on forever.

The only good thing President Jimmy Carter can be remembered for is the fact that his poor performance helped usher in the era of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan, who returned this country to its proper position in the world as he saw it — as a “Shining City on a Hill.”