yeah…ive filled out my ballot. sealed up. just need to drop it in the box or at the building myself, which i will try to do tomorrow.

gracias for dropping these energies and information and reminders.

and word. sabrán que los latinos tienen eso poder…y pienso they already do. we just have to follow through now.

almost time!

I especially give you major props for having the stomach (and self-control) to sit through an entire video featuring such hate-filled, Manifest Destiny lovin’ vitriol from the McCain-Palin camp. I doubt I could do it, personally. Palin in particular is so full of hate and bile towards this country’s indigenous peoples and African-Americans, she approaches the rhetoric used by the racist 19th-century British imperialists, who spoke about how they were going to subjugate and civilize (aka mass slaughter) all those “benighted” darkies in India and Africa, while their Anglo counterparts in North America did the same to the Meso-American “darkies” in what’s now the US Southwest.

The good news is that at least here around LA, seems like people of all hues are favoring Obama. There are still plenty of Anglo James K. Polk worshippers who hate us brown and black people so much that they’re backing the bigoted Palin (who seems to be the real focus of the GOP ticket).

But most of my White amigos are not only voting for Obama, but spending their evenings and weekends volunteering for him (though most of them describe themselves as German or Hungarian, for example– these folks hate the “Anglo” description as much as we do).

Still, we gotta be on the lookout for all the hi-jinks and vote theft that the Rethuglicans are still planning for November 4th– things like putting obstacles up in minority communities to prevent voting, blocking ballot access, tampering with voting machines, pushing employers to refuse to let minorities vote and of course, purging the voter rolls.

Remember that by federal law, any jurisdiction with greater than 5% Latino population is *required* to have ballots available en español, and furthermore, employers are forbidden by law from preventing their employees from going to vote– both access provisions that the GOP is desperately trying to thwart.

If you all have any parientes o amigos dealing with such crap, make sure to notify the local Obama camp, who will sic a team of lawyers on the company and sue them into bankruptcy for breaking federal law.

Also, if you can, vote early before Election Day itself– in the West especially, most states have early voting provisions that’ll cut down on the need to wait in line.

Viene pronto la hora para nuestra gente, y desde 2008, los políticos en este país sabrán que los Latinos tienen el poder decidir el liderazgo aquí!

and i do agree on your final thoughts!

The Socialists worry as much — if not more — about an Obamista “economic and institutional hegemony” (i.e., the usual attempts to control LA resources through U.S. financial sources and domination of international bodies) than about McCain’s “territorialismo”. In other words, Obama is just seen as a “kinder, gentler” version of neo-colonialism.

While Obama is obviously the better candidate (and will be the better U.S. President), the U.S. isn’t about to turn socialist, though if it becomes a little less Fascist wouldn’t be a bad outcome.