Email Friend | Print Article | | Share Share  May 12, 2011  'The
Least Important Person in Washington'  Daniel Joppich Apparently
our campaigner-in-chief didn't get the memo. He seems to think
that jetting around the country giving veiled campaign speeches
and fundraising appearances is more important than dealing with
the real problems the country is facing.  Yesterday he was in
Texas looking over the millions of acres of scorched land
destroyed by wildfires. Oh, that's right. He didn't have time
for that.  He did have time for a speech on immigration reform
that was more an attack against the Republicans than a serious
call for meaningful change. It lacked any specifics or a plan
but was full of partisan attacks:    In a creative stretch he
even tried to tie job creation to immigration reform.  Never
mind that comparing these educated, LEGAL immigrants to poor,
uneducated illegal aliens is like comparing apples and cumquats.
Interestingly, the official White House transcript of the speech
even includes cal