Comments on: More hype about Clinton and Obama courting the Latino vote. Will we end up being Clinton’s firewall?

By: Polymathic

Polymathic — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:28:32 +0000

Well, the L.A. Times and La Opinion have endorsed Barak (as well a slew of other papers, especially in California). It is going to make for some very interesting results, I expect for Super Tuesday, which might be worth watching not only on CNN but on V-Me, which be covering it in Spanish, as announced here: http://www.vmetv.com/_files/_official_pr/impremedia.pdf

By: SeniorMoreno

SeniorMoreno — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:55:03 +0000

BEWARE !!!!

TO THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE FRIENDS OR RELATIVES THAT ARE ILLEGAL!

CLINTON OPPOSES ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS DRIVER’S LICENSE!

IF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE NOT GIVEN DRIVER’S LICENSES THEY WILL BE FORCED
TO BREAK THE LAW!

AND SINCE IT IS A CRIME TO BREAK THE LAW, IF CAUGHT YOU ARE EXEMPT FROM
A PATH TO CITIZENSHIP!

THIS WILL FOREVER BAN YOU FROM BEING A U.S. CITIZEN!
THIS IS THE BEST WAY TO DEPORT YOU!

OBAMA BELIEVES THAT THOSE WHO BLAME IMMIGRANTS FOR JOB LOSSES AND LOW WAGES
ARE USING LATINOS AS SCAPEGOATS. CLINTON ON THE OTHER HAND BELIEVES THAT LATINOS ARE
IN PART RESPONSIBLE FOR JOB LOSSES AND LOW WAGES.

OBVIOUSLY OBAMA IS THE BEST CHOICE FOR LATINOS IF YOU WANT TO STOP THE BLAME ON LATINOS!

SAY NO TO THE SCAPEGOATING!

SI SE PUEDE! SI SE PUEDE! SI SE PUEDE!

By: notoriouslig

notoriouslig — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:11:19 +0000

The LA Times seems set to endorse him on Sunday, endorsement posted on line today. “In the language of metaphor, Clinton is an essay, solid and reasoned; Obama is a poem, lyric and filled with possibility. Clinton would be a valuable and competent executive, but Obama matches her in substance and adds something that the nation has been missing far too long — a sense of aspiration.”

I don’t normally care for the paper and I didn’t expect it to endorse him, but for once, the paper surprised me.

Oh yeah, and this brick isn’t in that firewall.

By: Regina Rodriguez

Regina Rodriguez — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:02:03 +0000

I’m a Mexican-American and I voted for Barak Obama. So there.

By: Michaelr

Michaelr — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:46:17 +0000

Some of the short-sightedness from the Billary camp fully explains how little she knows the history of Hispanics, and why she continues to stay stupid things when referencing them as her firewall amongst other things. While the African-American community is fully approachable to Cubans, Puerto-Ricans, and Dominicans, Central Americans, and South Americans, it’s the Mexicans, and the Mexican-Americans who have trouble with this political relationship. While the reason for this is a mixture of phobias, generated by the caste system that’s been in place in Mexico for nearly 500 years; I hate to reference Octavio Paz and turn this into a Third World hypothesis. However, based on the performances of the vast majority of the U.S. Congressional Hispanic Caucus, its seems U.S. politicians of Mexican-American descent, with the exception of the late Henry B. Gonzalez, Gloria Molina, and Gloria Romero, have real trouble with the definition of public service. Antonio Villaraigosa and Fabian Nunez have actually been campaigning for Hillary Clinton and ignoring their prime duties. Their perception of public service seems to be more self-service. And Loretta and Linda Sanchez, along with Joe Baca all perform poorly in their obligations to their constituents. White America will never look at Latinos as equals…politically, or as human beings. We are the poorest minority group, and yet we are the largest in the United States. Do you really think Hillary Clinton is going to change that? Seven years in the U.S. Senate, she has voted twice for the Patriot Act, voted to go to war in Iraq, and continually votes to fund whatever the White House wants. Is that a candidate for change? Hardly…