Adventures of the Coconut Caucus

Because even simple firings in the Clinton camp have a Latino angle! Mark Penn, a chief aide for la Hillary was fired today because he was philandering with the Colombian enemy and trying to get more brown people to do white people’s jobs at half of white people’s wages:

Clinton Top Aide Leaving His Post Under Pressure

Mark Penn, the pollster who has advised Bill and Hillary Clinton since 1996, stepped down under pressure on Sunday as the chief political strategist for Mrs. Clinton’s struggling presidential campaign after his private business arrangements again clashed with her campaign positions.

Mr. Penn, who was widely disliked by Mrs. Clinton’s fiercest loyalists and had bitterly feuded with many of them, sealed his fate last week by meeting with officials from Colombia, which hired him to help secure passage of a bilateral trade treaty with the United States that Mrs. Clinton, a senator from New York, opposes.

So when Mr. Uribe is scorned, how is he to react? Is he to turn the other cheek, or shall we leave that for our non-Catholic brethren?

The Colombian government hired the Burson-Marsteller firm last year under a $300,000 one-year contract to help secure passage of a bilateral trade treaty with the United States.
On Saturday, the Colombian government fired Mr. Penn’s firm, saying his efforts to distance himself from them were an insult.

There you go! Never promise brown people a job during election time. Unless it’s cleaning your lawn. But I guess even then, it’s an honor not being nominated, right Mitt?