has no meaning anymore. It devolved down into “someone on the other side who disagrees with Obama and the radicals.” Given that, the majority of the country would qualify as “racists.”

Was listening to a local radio talk show while running errands yesterday morning and amused to hear a guy call in who said that he was Hispanic and had been hassled unfairly by the cops in Nashville just because he was a brown person. He was polite and well-spoken, made the points that he was born here, had attended school here, worked here, etc. As the conversation progressed, however, he let it slip that he didn’t agree with the talk show host’s positions most of the time and then the truth came out. His family had come here on a visa, but the visa expired and they just stayed. His explanation was “We came here as legals, but the government made us illegals when our visa expired. So we just stayed and now we are angry that we might have to go back to Mexico and get in line. We’d be happy to pay the few thousand that it would take to make us legal, but we aren’t going to go back to Mexico and just wait in line to do it.”

So there you have it. “We want what we want and to hell with any laws that say we can’t have it.” That’s the kind of respectful, law-following citizen we want, isn’t it? So call me a racist and see if I do anything more emotional about it than to yawn.,

and “we” are on the same side. And your rhetoric here is the typical lefty stuff. Or the Ron Paul stuff, which is often not much different.

No, they don’t. The Arizona bill is in response to the increasingly violent both on and across the border with Mexico which the federal government won’t do anything about. The HCR bill is FROM the federal government to impose the fed’s will upon the states whether the states consent or not.

You’re confusing apples with asses.

is not what I would call a threat to personal liberty. A threat to personal liberty would be citizens who cannot have a reasonable expectation to personal safety on the streets of their own towns because citizens of another country are allowed to spill across the national borders unchecked. And many of those same citizens of another country commit crimes here.

Health Care Deform is another case entirely. The two have nothing in common. Your comparison of the two is idiotic. Just because conservatives hated one of the bills doesn’t mean that we would hate both of them. Arizona’s bill confirmed, for many of us, the rule of law. HCR, by contrast, puts the federal government in direct opposition to the safety and well-being of us, the electorate, by taking away our freedom and by contravening the Constitution. The Arizona law does neither. And, by the way, if you are not a citizen of Arizona, how exactly does this law affect you anyway?