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John McCain Will Have You Know That Latinos Are God's Children. His Unloved, Misshapen Bastard Children.

John McCain’s new campaign ad, known as “God’s Children,” is supposedly designed to lift the public perception of Latinos in the U.S. However, it seems to have backfired just a bit. He states, for example, when addressing a crowd of frightened Anglos:

You are even going to meet some of the few thousand who are still green card holders who are not citizens of this country. Who love this country so much that they are willing to risk their lives an in service in order to accelerate their path to citizenship and enjoy the bountiful blessed nation.

Did we hear right? It’s true. We totally went to war to earn our citizenship. Another quote…

So let’s from time to time(election time) remember that these are God’s children, they must come into our country legally but they have enriched our culture and our nation as every generation of immigrants before them

This ad is more than a little demeaning towards Hispanics. Mccain seems to have to remind his viewers that Latinos are human too. Unlike certain fist-jabbing, heathen terrorists, painted trollop women, or Teh Gheys… Those are more like “God’s Adopted Children.” Right, John?

Video [Youtube]

Do I want my elected officials to think of me all the time? No. That’s far too much. I’d say from time to time is alright. That way, when we’re grossly underpayed, he’ll still be able to sleep at night, knowing that we voted for him in good faith while he was thinking of us.

Posted by Marina | July 15, 2008

Ok, so it is officially illegal to try to recruit someone to join the armed forces by telling them it will process their citizenship (and in fact, it never will help them get citizenship, except if they die. Generally dead immigrants get posthumous citizenship, cuz that’s useful), but it happens A LOT.

A little bird told me when I was working on a transcription gig that in Peru, at the beginning of the Iraq war, they were recruiting Peruvians who had never even BEEN to the U.S. with the (obviously false) promise of citizenship.

oops!

Posted by calaverita | July 15, 2008