President Barack Obama’s press conference Monday was dominated by questions about the “debt ceiling” and gun control, but he was also quizzed about diversity on his second term cabinet.
It was the last question of the press conference and Obama was asked about the diversity in his picks for the new cabinet.
Obama said critics should wait until the cabinet is complete, and he pointed to his record.
“So if you think about my first four years, the person who probably had the most influence on my foreign policy was a woman," he said.
His answer was focused on gender diversity – the "binders of women" issue - but dodged the issue of racial diversity. And Latinos are noticing.
“It’s a question of optics," said Allert Brown-Gort of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at Notre Dame. He said Latino voters care about something more substantial.
“What is really going to show much more whether Obama has the interest of the Latino community in heart and in mind is really has to do much more with how much more political capital gets put into immigration reform," he said. READ MORE
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