I repeat: No Latinos were hurt, employed, featured, consulted, shown, considered, included, acknowledged or recognized in the making of this presidential debate, or the VP debate, or any other debate.

Yes mi gente, we may be the largest numerical minority of the nation, but we are absolutely excluded, disregarded, absent, ignored, passed over and non-existent when it comes to debating, commentating, covering, moderating, or EVEN ASKING questions to the candidates in the supposed most important election ever.

(In all those foreign policy “debates” not one mention of Mexico, a country that affects the daily lives of Americans waaaaay more than Russia or Somalia, or Colombia where billions of our taxpayer dollars go, or the Dominican Republic, we can’t do baseball without it)

Passing mentions of Hugo Chávez and the Castro duo don’t count, because they always appear in the same sentence as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and foreign oil and/or dictators.

So while “our leaders” are all excited that a few more Latinos will be participating in that secret activity that happens once every 4 years (OK, 2 years), and they keep saying we are the swing vote, yada yada yada…. I have news for you: Our collective political weight is about as real as Joe Biden’s hair plugs, and about as relevant as a copy of the Constitution in Alberto Gonzales’ house.

AND BTW, Univision didn’t even bother to carry the debate live. (But they still get all those awards for “promoting civic engagement”)

Of course I may just be upset that our Latino Debate Drinking Game was a miserable failure, and in the end it may be better if they keeps us off national TV…. case in point: Xavier Becerra on FOX,

(in case you are still using dial up: Cavuto says minorities are to blame for the economic crisis because of all those programs to make sure white people weren’t the only ones getting loans, and Becerra responds that the Fed is under the administration and that he will bring you a record….)