To be a king, or not to be a king. For Barack Obama, it’s a trick question.
The president hates being challenged over his deportation policies or being asked why his administration – five months before an election – offered deferred action to young unauthorized immigrants but not to anyone else. So when those questions come up, as they tend to do during Spanish-language interviews, he reaches for a hackneyed line:
“I’m not a king.â€
That is what Obama recently told Univision anchor Maria Elena Salinas. And it is what he told Telemundo anchor Jose Diaz-Balart in another interview on the same day.
“I’m not a king.â€
By now, those words are for many Latinos like fingernails on a chalkboard. We’ve heard them too many times. He must think we have short memories.
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