Told You So

I told you Hispanics were not Obamanation Kool-Aid drinkers. The bonds are already severing (a mere 26 days post the Messiah's election).

Question is...can you operatives, do you operatives, have the sense to drive the wedge deeper and widen the crack in the armor?

Latinos unhappy with Obama picks

By: Gebe Martinez Gebe Martinez – Sun Nov 30, 12:04 pm ET

Obama promised hope and change, and Hispanics hoped for the usual two Latinos in the Cabinet. And heck, why not three or four? Now that would be a change.

But at this early stage in the appointments process, there is a trickle of disappointment running through the Latino community.

First, the most prominent Hispanic leader, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, lost the plum secretary of state assignment to New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Last spring, Richardson angered the Clintonistas by backing Obama over Clinton during the heated Democratic Primary contest, only to now see her being offered the top diplomatic post.

“There’s nobody more prepared and experienced” for the job than Richardson, said Arturo Vargas, executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. Richardson was energy secretary and ambassador to the United Nations during the Clinton administration, and he helped free hostages in North Korea, Iraq and Cuba.

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