Adventures of the Coconut Caucus

As the Obaman Latino Listening Tour continues to putt-putt and sputter along, the candidate clearly figured he had hit the jackpot by stopping by at the 25th-annual National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials conference in downtown DC.

Hundreds of brown people were there, and surely he must have thought, whew, I can save so much of my non-public funding by talking here instead of having to go all over the country and try to figure out what’s the difference between, say, Mexicans and Puerto Ricans, or Guatemalans and Nicaraguans.

Which of course explains why he referred to Brownsville, Texas, as Brownville, Texas. He was, after all, in Brownville. At least in his mind he was.

His crack Latino media outreach team, MIA as per usual, wasn’t there to correct him.

Unsurprising news of the day! Radio Mambi in Third World Country Miami is all about this man:

Nothing says “I am the decider” like bringing Castro into the equation:

McCain Continues Spanish Radio Outreach

John McCain is once again reaching out to Hispanic voters on the radio, this time targeting Cuban-Americans in South Florida.

“Cuban Prisoners” is a 60-second radio ad voiced by Roberto Martin Perez, who was imprisoned by the Cuban government for 28 years, until his exile in 1988

FINALLY the most underrepresented Latino demographic is getting some Central American love! At least his chances of outliving Castro are way way less than those of white folks before him.

Remember that inspiring little video made about Obama?

(Here it is, in case you were living under a rock and missed it)

Well it was only a matter of time before the John McCain and Dick Cheney versions…

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Here is your political Cinco de Mayo pandering round up….

Panamanian John McCain launches website in his native language of Spanish…. where the first audio you hear is in English

The website includes some nice videos of ALL the republican Latinos in Congress, i.e. our favorite Cubans.

Meanwhile back at the White House….. Bush celebrated his last Cinco de Mayo, with the only Hispanic left in his cabinet, Cuban born Carlos Gutiérrez… (and you know his ratings are down, when even the invited Univision people didn´t bother to go)

Well, apparently we are not the only ones interested in having the first Central American president of the United States….

Obama, Clinton cosponsor measure saying McCain is eligible to be president

In order to counter the views of some pundits, a group of senators, including Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama (Ill.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), on Thursday introduced a measure that clarifies that presumptive GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) is eligible to hold the office.

The effort, spearheaded by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), is meant to counter the views of some pundits, who had openly questioned whether McCain would qualify to be president because he was born on a U.S. naval base and not in the U.S.

“Because he was born to American citizens, there is no doubt in my mind that Senator McCain is a natural born citizen,” said Leahy. “I expect that this will be a unanimous resolution of the Senate.”

The resolution states that “there is no evidence of the intention of the Framers or any Congress to limit the constitutional rights of children born to American citizens serving in the military nor to prevent those children from serving as their country’s President.”

McCaskill stated that it would be “silly” to argue that McCain is ineligible to hold the office.

“I would hope that this is something we can all agree on, for goodness sakes,” McCaskill added.