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38513.jpgI don’t buy into the whole Latino vote crap. I’m not saying our votes don’t count (I really hope they do on Tuesday) or that we shouldn’t vote. I’m voting and dragging my whole stereotypically large family with me. Pero the “Latino Vote” in McCain airquotes, has become a marketing tool, a publicity stunt, with the Republican and Democrats parading people around with accents, Latin lover looks, or any otherness cred in a sad sad effort to earn our vote. Every election cycle it’s the same thing, and the closer we get to the election, the worse it gets and the sad thing is that some of our own people, fellow Latinos, play along. Blame wanting their additional 15 minutes of fame or poor political educations, pero the fact that some Latinos are willing to straight up sell out and sell the interest of their own people out just so they can take the center ring in the circus we call elections me da verguenza.

So who are some of the worse Latino offenders?

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Soy Jose el Plomero

11:55 am By Maegan La Mala · US Presidential Race 2008 · Comments Off

22 Oct 2008

Did you peep John McCain’s new ad where everyone is suddenly Joe the Plumber, except anyone that looks like me or anyone I know (save the black man who is not Barack Obama who is on screen for what? a millisecond?). Don’t know about you pero this ad makes me want to not vote for McCain especially if those are the peeps on his team.

Joe the Plumber was the estrella of last night’s debate, with his name being thrown around left, right, and sideways. CBS interviewed the man of the hour, Joe the plumber and it turns out he’s kind of racist, no? I mean I know “tap dancin around an issue” is a figure of speech pero then when he adds the whole Sammy Davis Jr. line into it, no se, it kind of takes it to a different level.


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