George Lopez endorses Barack Obama

[babylonsister]

Run time: 07:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87WESx0LGqk   Posted on YouTube: February 23, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: February 24, 2008 By DU Member: babylonsister Views on DU: 1476

 

[graywarrior]

1. Thanks for that.

Great video.

[sonias]

2. I recognize that restaurant - Las Manitas on Congress

First George was great on that clip. Thanks babylonsister for the clip. It was funny.

He had some good serious lines:
Latinos we are very powerful when our power is used, and very visible when we are absent
We can't be important only every four years.

Funny one too on
You think Latinos are going to be playing Sudoku at Starbucks?
If we're relaxing we're not going to do math
:rofl:

He also said that in addition to doing some campaigning he was in town to get some killer "chorizo".
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Me on Las Manitas. I know both of the Perez sisters.

Those two wonderful strong Latina women, Lidia and Cynthia Perez, who own that restaurant are also the embodiment of the American dream. They worked hard to set up that business and make it successful. It helped support their families and several hundred employees and their families over the 26+ years they've been on Congress Avenue.

NPR Morning Edition
An Austin Institution Ousted by Development
Morning Edition, August 23, 2007 · In Austin, a beloved Tex-Mex cafe is preparing to move to make way for a giant new Marriott hotel, and people are plenty upset about it. The controversy has raised anew the question: Is success ruining Austin?

On the wall next to the cash register at Las Manitas restaurant is a framed letter signed by J.W. Marriott Jr.

"Dear Cynthia and Lidia," it begins. "Please accept my sincere apologies for my insensitive remarks that appeared in last week's Austin American-Statesman."

That was a reference to the now locally infamous quote from Mr. Marriott: "Why should you hold up a several-hundred-million-dollar investment because of a small little restaurant?"

He clearly didn't know Austin, or the fame of Las Manitas.

The sisters turned down the city loan offered to them because it was too political and came with too many conditions. Like the resourceful women they are they will move their restaurant and re-open somewhere else, on their own terms. Another downtown icon is moved out of the way.

Sonia

[MindMatter]

3. Would somebody please educate me ...

I really want to know why there is a presumption that Latinoa and Latinas should support Clinton instead of Obama. Everybody keeps saying that, but it makes no sense to me. Why should that be the default? I really wish somebody would explain that to me.

I'm neither black nor Latino, and I'm pretty confused. I would have thought that there would be a natural affinity between the those two groups because they are minority and mainly disenfranchised in the US.

I thought the gang wars between blacks and Latinos was a really limited thing. Is there something much deeper? Somebody please educate this middle aged white guy.

[FrenchieCat]

4. It has to do with the Clinton Campaign, and how they once again played The Politics of Division.

To groups who are actually in the same boat.

It started like this first day out in Nevada, prior to the caucuses......

“The Hispanic voter—and I want to say this very carefully—has not shown a lot of willingness or affinity to support black candidates.” —Clinton pollster Sergio Bendixen
http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/index.php/2008/01/12/clinton-pollster-latinos-too-racist-to-vote-for-obama

Clinton at Root of Racist Stereotyping - Hispanics vs Blackswashingtonpost.com — Where did this come from? "Hispanics traditionally do not like Blacks." Since when? This is a racist, divisive falsehood that the Clinton Campaign has created and nurtured as a 'historical statement' in an attempt to pit the political arena against Obama. First mentioned by a Hillary pollster and then affirmed by Clinton herself. There is no proof.
http://www.digg.com/2008_us_elections/Clinton_at_Root_of_Racist_Stereotyping_Hispanics_vs_Blacks

A few weeks ago, Sergio Bendixen, a Clinton pollster and Hispanic expert, publicly articulated what campaign officials appear to have been whispering for months. In an interview with Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker, Bendixen explained that "the Hispanic voter - and I want to say this very carefully - has not shown a lot of willingness or affinity to support black candidates."

The spin worked. For the last several weeks, it's been on the airwaves (Tucker Carlson, "Hardball," NPR), generally tossed off as if it were conventional wisdom. And it has shown up in sources as far afield as Agence France-Presse and the London Daily Telegraph, which wrote about a "voting bloc traditionally reluctant to support black candidates."

The spin also helped shape the analysis of the Jan. 19 Nevada caucus, in which Clinton won the support of Hispanic voters by a margin of better than 2 to 1. Forget the possibility that Nevada's Hispanic voters may have actually preferred Clinton or, at the very least, had a fondness for her husband; pundits embraced the idea that Hispanic voters simply didn't like the fact that her opponent was black.

But was Bendixen's blanket statement true?

Far from it, and the evidence is overwhelming enough to make you wonder why in the world the Clinton campaign would want to portray Hispanic voters as too unrelentingly racist to vote for Barack Obama.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=713782

[MindMatter]

5. I guess I should never underestimate the ability and willingness ...

of The Mighty Wurlitzer (our MSM collective) to belch out complete nonsense, especially when it helps elect candidates that will help them maintain their status quo in the country's power structure.

And maybe they have gotten away with it so far because the only Latinos that have much of a voice in teh national media are the Castro-obsessed in Miami. The MSM loves to roll that film, but you rarely see Hispanic voices on other issues -- not even on immigration, for chrissakes.

Well, I guess this can all change in 9 days in Texas.

[CubFan7125]

6. Is the Paul Rodriguez Endorsement Next

[fight4my3sons]

7. "We're vital to the fabric of the United States"

I love that line. Love George Lopez. Thank you for posting this.