Published on Wednesday, July 23, 2008
By Pasadena Star Staff Writer
BARACK Obama is looking for a way to convince Latino voters that he is simpatico. He may have found it thanks to the cover of The New Yorker.
During the primaries, Obama tried to equate civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King and United Farm Workers President Cesar Chavez. Then, in a recent speech to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, Obama insisted that he had worked with local Latino leaders as a young civil rights attorney in Chicago and argued that, in a weak economy, "few have been hit harder than Latinos and African-Americans." Finally, while speaking to the National Council of La Raza last week, Obama talked about how many in the Latino community came here "with so little but ... a thirst to succeed" and said it reminded him of what brought his father here from Kenya "in the hope that, in America, you can make it if you try
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