Brody File producer, Robin Mazyck here with another celebrity spotting.
While I was in Austin, Texas last week I ran into actor/comedian George Lopez. Actually I didn't run into him, I ran after him begging for an interview.
Lopez has thrown his support behind Sen. Barack Obama. He's spent a great deal of time touring the state of Texas as a surrogate campaigning for the senator. I asked Lopez about his decision to back Obama, and I asked him about the role Latinos are playing in the March 4 primary in Texas.
Lopez got serious on me and provided me with some really insightful thoughts on being a Mexican-American in our great nation.
Part of Lopez's comments will air Thursday, February 28 in a story I produced for David on the Latino vote. Be sure to watch The 700 Club tomorrow (check your local listings for times).
In the meantime watch what Lopez had to say by clicking on the play button above.
Read below:
Mazyck: So why are you supporting Obama?
Lopez: It's very simple. I feel very disconnected from America. I've weighed all aspects of politics when it came to the candidates, and I feel like Sen. Obama gives us the best chance to put America back on it's right path.
As a Mexican-American in this country I think that we've been kind of viewed as a bit of an enemy in our own country, so he gives us our best chance at faith and reinvigorated hope and our best chance to put this country back on the forefront as a world class power that we need to be. But we also need to be strong amongst ourselves and more together, and I think that he's the candidate for that kind of change.
Mazyck: It must be very exciting now that the nation is focused on the Latino and Hispanic vote.
Lopez: It's exciting and it's a bit interesting that we need to understand amongst ourselves that we're very powerful everyday and not just every four years when they want our vote. It's our place to take that place and this is just the start of that. So getting Sen. Obama as the Democratic nominee for President would be a great chance to not only unify all of the Latinos, but to be part of the machine that is going to put Sen. Obama eventually in the White House.