McCain Sings La Bamba Lyrics To Puzzled Hispanic Group

"Yo no soy marinero," Sen. John McCain told a hastily assembled and deeply puzzled audience at the
League of United Latin American Citizens convention in Washington. "Soy capitan. Soy capitan, soy capitan."

The Hispanic audience was deeply puzzled by McCain's recitation of the lyrics to the second verse of the Richie Valens classic, "La Bamba."

"We think maybe it had to do with his military service," Enrique Ramos, a spokesman for the group, told the Dissociated Press. "That whole thing about 'I'm not a sailor, I'm the captain.' Or maybe it had to do with his thyroid. Either way, at least he didn't start dancing."

Attendees of the closed-door speech said that Sen. McCain spent the first three minutes of his speaking time staring blankly into space, then recited the La Bamba lyrics, and finally turned to the subject of his speech, comprehensive immigration reform.

"It's hard to understand exactly what he was saying," Romas told the Dissociated Press. "But we think he's in favor of a high wall that stretches around the complete border of the United States, including alongside Canada and both the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. At least that's what the Senator seemed to be saying.

"He also said he wanted doors and windows in the wall," Ramos added, "so that people could get through. And he said that he was gratified at the drop in the number of illegal immigrants but alarmed at the recent increase in undocumented workers."

Ramos said McCain spent the final three minutes staring into space before breaking into an evocative rendition of Ben E. King's 1961 classic, "(There is) A Rose In Spanish Harlem."