That's our former first lady making a Spanish ad for her husband. So to all you xenophobes attacking McCain and Obama for running Spanish ads this year, get over it. It's an American tradition. That's gotta hurt to learn there's more to this country than your narrow perspective.
If you're like me and don't speak spanish here's a translation.
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It's unfortunate though somewhat relevant in this context that JFK's blinkered fight against communism helped keep Castro in power for the next 45 years, led us into Vietnam, and set the stage for a complete bloodbath in Central America. U.S. foreign policy has been a bipartisan disaster for a very long time.
I would have to say that JFK did commit a serious faux pas by essentially driving Castro into the arms of the Soviets, but his successor, LBJ, had more to do with expanding the "better dead than red" foreign policy than JFK.
But, then of course, LBJ, for all his faults did more for Mexican-Americans than any president before him (when I lived in the Big Bend of Texas, you'd find older people still revered LBJ as something close to a saint), and actually was seen as a "good gringo" in Mexico for signing the Chamizal Agreement of 1963.
Don't think you can judge foreign policy... or the eventual results of a foreign policy, based on just what a candidate's wife managed to say in an advertisement.
Frankly I don't care who does ads in Spanish - does it really matter? What matters is all the other citizens who can't understand it either way.
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