JK was on fire this week at the National Council of La Raza's Annual Conference in Pheonix.

In his remarks, he brilliantly played up his wife's immigrant background:

My wife, Teresa came from a dictatorship. She didn't get to cast a vote until she was 31 when she became a naturalized American. But I can tell you, as much as she loves her roots and loves her heritage, I have met few people who love America as much as she does. Teresa is not alone. From soldiers to students, there are thousands of immigrants who have come to our shores and made America a better place.

What I like about this is that he doesn't try to say more than he knows.  He doesn't try to compare his wife's journey to Mexican immigrants dodging bullets at the border.  But he is able to identify common ground - love for this land of opportunity - that all immigrants and, indeed, all native-born Americans can share.  I think that's a great way to bring new voters to our camp.  Well done.

Plus, he ends with two of my favorite political platitudes:

The poet Langston Hughes told the stories in this way: "Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be". for those "whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain, whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain must bring back our mighty dream again."

In 2004, we have to bring back our mighty dream again. We have to make America all that it can become.

Let America be America again. Que America sea America. Para Todos.

Si se puede! Si se puede! Si se puede!

Yes, we can, my friends.  Yes.  We can.