Sarah Palin is uninformed about the Latino community in the United States and about Latin America in general.
Really?
That's a shocker.
This was the topic of a recent story on politico.com.
It detailed how during the campaign Palin pulled out of an interview with Univision anchor Jorge Ramos. He's one of the best known Latino journalists in the United States.
Palin was supposed to join John McCain for the Univision interview but he did the interview solo.
"She did not feel comfortable speaking about issues regarding Hispanics and Latin America," GOP consultant Ana Navarro told Univision anchor Jorge Ramos in an interview, according to Politico.
This made me think about a series of questions Ramos (a la Katie Couric) could have asked Palin to test her knowledge of Latino and Latin American history.
1) What do you think of Taco Bell's "Run for the Border" campaign?
2) What kind of salsa do you prefer - the one you eat or the one you dance?
3) Should Cinco de Mayo be a national holiday in the United States?
But seriously. How do you think she would have answered real questions?
1) What's your position on immigration reform?
2) Should Puerto Rico remain a U.S. commonwealth or seek independence?
3) Latin America has seen more leftist leaders elected to office. Should the United States be concerned?
These questions are certainly harder than Couric's question about what newspapers she reads.
Now you may think it's mean-spirited of me to bash Palin.
I think it is totally sexist of commentators who criticize her looks and her motherhood.
But her intellect?
I think that is fair game for any politician.
Palin COULD HAVE been our vice president. There's a strong chance she will run for president in 2012.
We should question her knowledge of current events and history.
If Palin plans to run for president, she better school up on the issues impacting Latinos in the United States. We're 15 percent of the population and will grow to almost 30 percent by 2050, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.
If Palin learns nada about us, she is going to lose big time.
Filed under: Hispanic, immigration, Latin America, politics
Tags: 2012, interview, John McCain, Jorge Ramos, president, Sarah Palin, Univision
What you really mean is if Palin doesn't kowtow to every single Hispanic demand, she is going to lose big time. So she didn't feel comfortable answering questions, what does that mean? Either she needed more time and information to construct her opinion on 'Latinos', or she would have given answers that you wouldn't like to hear, i.e. to heck with your amnesty. Not that your 'people' would vote for her anyway, you're still waiting for uber-leftist Obama or some future Tan Klan Mexican Messiah to deliver your nail-in-the-coffin amnesty.
Well I think Palin will really struggle with this type of criticism for awhile more. Being in the spotlight should