Posted by
Chris Field on Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:08:13 AM
In a New York Times
piece today, readers are informed of the continuing battle between McCain and Obama for votes of the Hispanic community and the tactics the two campaigns are using. It's a fairly lame piece that tells readers incredibly little.
But there is one important item buried at the end of the piece that reminds us that the Obama campaign is, indeed, concerned with and campaigning on race. Check this out:
“We’re going to spend more money on Latino TV and radio than has
ever been spent on a presidential campaign, and by a lot,” Cuahtemoc
Figueroa, the director of Mr. Obama’s Latino vote effort, told members
of La Raza on Sunday.
The campaign also views Mr. Obama’s half sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng,
who taught school for several years in the Bronx, as something of a
trump card to be deployed at events for Hispanic voters. “She speaks
fluent Spanish, with a Dominican accent, and looks Latina,” Mr.
Figueroa said.
Haven't we been told repeatedly that skin color was not something the Obamaniacs were going to focus on?
Who cares? We all knew they were lying.