Obama decides to play back previously recorded speech to National Council of La Raza
By ONANTZIN News
2011-07-28
Washington D.C. -- In order to preserve energy for the ongoing debates with Republicans over the debt ceiling, President Obama decided to show up at the National Council of La Raza meeting this week with a tape player and a few of his previously recorded speeches for Latinos from 2008.
As the guest of honor at the luncheon organized by the NCLR, the largest Hispanic civil rights organization in the country, members were expecting Obama to offer Latinos something new to work with. Instead, what they got was a recorded stump speech given to Latinos in 2008, which the president played back for the crowd as he sat on the side and exchanged text messages with John Boehnor.
"Let's be frank here. I have nothing new to say to them", stated Obama after the luncheon.
"I'm not even sure why they invited me; they know I'm dealing with more serious issues on the hill and need to preserve my energy. In any regard, a previously recorded speech from 2008 is as good as any speech that I would have given them – maybe better".
But the crowd was not convinced - or pleased. A group of students stood during the president's recorded speech, giving him the eye. And at a news conference afterward, La Raza President Janet Murguía said Obama was no longer invited to visit Aztlan – when the NCLR's more radicalized members eventually pinpoints where it is.
"I've had it with him. It's as if Latinos don't vote", stated Murguía. "To think that at one point some of our more passionate members wanted to offer him the mythological key to Aztlan. Well, that offer is no longer on the table. That will teach him to disrespect us like that"
Obama had no comment regarding his banishment from Aztlan.