Latinos send wish list to Obama via El Piolín

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As Univision Radio host Eddie “El Piolín” Sotelo was getting ready to interview Barack Obama this morning (9:00 am ET), Univision.com opened up a forum inviting visitors to send in their questions and concerns to the Illinois Democrat.

Under the headline What would you ask the Candidate? Univision Online received hundreds of letters, some even in Portuguese, from all over the country and from people of all walks of life.

Here are some highlights for non-Spanish speakers:

“God may illuminate you, Piolín, so that you can come up with the best questions for Obama.”

“It is too sad to see the great eagle of freedom flying all over the skies of the U.S. while many paisanos have lost their wings to fly to their own dreams.”

“What strenght can a politician have if his arms lack pure love?”

…and my favorite one (so far)

“Qué pena vivir en un pais tan “poderoso” y a la vez tan devil [sic] como el cristal que se quiebra con el suspiro de un corazon traicionero.” (What a shame to live in such a “powerful” country, which is also as weak as the crystal which breaks with the sigh of a treacherous heart.”

Whatever happened to happy, cheerful Hispanics?

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Judging from this picture (out this month in Conde Nast’s special Fashion Rocks edition, which arrived with my monthly subscription of Vanity Fair) El Cantante and la esposa de El Cantante not only look tired and bored out of their minds, they even look a bit high.

My fellow bloggers at irreverent Guanabee.com even opened up a contest today inviting users to submit captions for the photo (above). I have not yet seen the responses, but here’s mine:

“Was that movie long or what?”