Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy today attended an immigration rally, which means an amnesty for illegal immigrants rally in Washington to show his support for the cause. However, his speech proffers a possibly ill-interpreted turn of phrase:
And if we can’t get this Congress to pass fair immigration reform now, we’ll elect a new Congress in November that will pass it.
No doubt the we means the naturalized citizens and I, but given that he’s speaking before a crowd that could, quite possibly contain some non-naturalized gente, doesn’t it sound almost as though Edward Kennedy is exhorting illegal aliens to vote Democratic in November?
One could easily make that mistake, couldn’t one?