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I'm in Mexico and I can tell you: Cinco de Mayo means shit.
The importance of the holiday ranks right up there with the Easter Bunny. It's cutesy and a good time for family/communal gatherings without the drama of hatchets in shallow graves. To help grasp a hold of the holiday just look at who celebrates it. Here's a hint: it is a North American country but it ain't Mexico and it ain't Canada.
Fact is, Cinco de Mayo does not even garner a bat of the eye in Mexico! The first of the month is Mexico's Labor Day (Dia de Trabajadores "Workers' Day") and you best believe the citizens observed that holiday...producing, in effect, a five-day weekend. Hard working, my ass.
President Obama took the moment to advance his immigration reform. The Speechmaker should divert those smoke-and-mirror stunts towards something viable and concrete like the ridiculously stressful San Ysidro port of entry. Only in America is another country's Independence Day seriously observed. Silly gringos....
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