Adventures of the Coconut Caucus

What’s wrong with voicing opposition to something? What’s wrong with dissenting? This is America, right?

So here we are coming up to the 4th of July and it’s time to ask ourselves why did Arturo Vargas, executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALGUEO), feel the need to bend over and apologize to Senator John McCain for the outbursts by the anti-war group Code Pink who interrupted McCain several times this past weekend at a speech to the group, accusing him of being a war criminal and I think a baby killer and Satan and a Nazi and the anti-Christ and a hater of all humankind.

It’s one thing to be polite, it’s another to be a bocabajo. Vargas felt it was necessary to make all Latinos look like asses and tell McCain that the protests “did not reflect NALEO.” That is more than obvious because if it did, it would imply that NALGUEO is actually an activist group that does something, rather than just getting together to hang out for a yearly rubber chicken dinner at a non-unionized overpriced hotel in downtown DC.

What we are all still waiting for is the apology for allowing the Code Pink people in with NALGUEO-issued media credentials. Wonder how that happened?

Oh, and one last thing. Thank God Patrick Henry was not one of our fearless latino “leaders.” We’d really be up s**t’s creek without a paddle, and probably still apologizing to King George III.