That word was used by Obama in an interview taped Friday for a Los Angeles radio show that's popular with California Hispanics and hosted by Eddie "Piolin" Soltero. In the interview, Obama states as follows:"If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, 'We're going to punish our enemies and we’re gonna’ reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,' if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it’s going to be harder and that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2."
From the quote, it's clear both that (1) Obama is encouraging Latinos to consider as "enemies" anyone who disagrees with the Obama Administration on immigration issues or the Arizona law and (2) Obama himself is of the mindset that anyone who disagrees with him is his "enemy."
I don't know how to put it any more plainly: This type of thinking and this type of rhetoric is purely Nixonian, destructive, dangerous, mindless and just plain ugly. It's way beneath a sitting American president, and it reflects as badly upon Obama as any of the many very concerning statements we've heard come out of his mouth over the past 18 months.
Put another way: It's one thing that the guy's a far-leftist, out of touch with the American mainstream. If he truly believes in that ideology, then he was elected president and he can go knock himself out with it while he's in office. But when he and his party start going down the road of calling anyone who disagrees with them an "enemy," a "racist" or some other vile pejorative, then that goes against everything this country stands for, including the principles of freedom of speech, the free open marketplace of ideas, and the freedom to dissent, question and criticize one's government. It can be even more succinctly summed up in one word: Un-American.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/4993-obama-calls-his-critics-qenemiesq
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