There are maybe three people reading this who will understand the TOTAL FREAKY COOLNESS of this

[lolaraincoat]

Okay, I spent way too much time today tracking down Spanish-language music videos about Obama. I have a vague idea about an article but basically I am just too tired to do my actual work.

So anyway. I found this. It will only make sense to those of us who know the oeuvre of Pedro Infante and can appreciate the sheer utter brilliance of

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[idlerat]

Please ignore BOTH MY PREVIOUS COMMENTS.

[lolaraincoat]

OKAY I WILL!!!

[themodestokid]

I don' understand it. (Don't speak spanish, don't know who Sr. Infante is, don't know what "Dos Tipos de Cuidado" is.) And yet it seems awesome.

[themodestokid]

(Is it kind of a Mexican version of the dueling banjos scene from Deliverance?)

[lolaraincoat]

No, more like - okay, look, imagine if The Searchers was a wacky musical comedy. That's Dos tipos de cuidado. It IS awesome. Everything Pedro Infante ever did was awesome. To have someone identify him with Obama ... there is no greater compliment possible, I'd argue, within the confines of Mexican popular culture. One of Infante's biographers once remarked to me (though I'm sure it's a line he uses all the time) "Oh, Pedro Infante? He's the Virgin of Guadalupe's boyfriend." He's just that big a deal.