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Bush messes up again |
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by Antonio
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13 Jun 2001
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Editor's Note: I wonder why the News-Gazette hasn't been keeping us appraised of the fact the "president" appears to be a blithering idiot. Surely the "idiot factor" looms as large as the idiot policies that are being pursued on his trip to Europe. He is doing a laughable job of representing the US, even if you are foolish enough to believe in his misguided approaches to public policy. |
Imagine a foreign head of state visiting the US in 1998, and accidentally referring to the then President as Mr. CLIT - NON.
Imagine a foreign head of state visiting the US in 1986, and accidentally referring to the then President as Mr. RAY-NUG. (Reagan).
Yet this is precisely what Bush did while visiting Spain. Canadian cable network News World International reported yesterday that G.W. Bush mispronounced the name of the Spanish head of State in a public speech.
Bush visited Spain first, for two reasons. First, he wanted to meet a conservative head of state. Spain is one of only a handful of Western European nations that do not have socialist, labor, or social democratic governments.
Second, he hoped to show off his \"near fluency\" in Spanish. Bad choice. Bush\'s Spanish is very poor, and he sounds very uneducated and even more ignorant than usual while speaking in Spanish, in part because of his Texas twang, in part because of his lack of any mastery of correct Spanish pronunciation, and lastly, because-- insofar as he is somewhat able to speak Spanish-- he tries to imitate a Latin American dialect, which is not very well respected in Spain, which still prides itself on the purity of the form of language spoken in \"Castellano\'s\" country of origin.
To make matters worse, when pronouncing the name of the current Spanish head of state, he said
AN-ZAR ,
instead of saying
AZ-NAR
which is like pronouncing our President\'s names:
KEDDENY
NINOX
EINESHOWER
WANISHTON
JESSERFUN
MASIDON, etc.
Bush probably spent a lot of time rehearsing his speech in Spanish, thought it did not show (He had trouble pronouncing the word travel--viajar--in the opening of his speech. He probably said over and over in his head (Aznar, Aznar, Aznar), but it came out AN-ZAR.
Imagine of foreign head of state coming to the US and calling our current head of state:
SHUB.
Bush could be excused if he did this sort of thing just once; but he does it time and time again.
Here are a few more \"Bushisms from recent weeks\":
\"Anyway, I\'m so thankful, and so gracious—I\'m gracious that my brother Jeb is concerned about the hemisphere as well.\"—Miami, Fla., June 4, 2001
\"It\'s important for young men and women who look at the Nebraska champs to understand that quality of life is more than just blocking shots.\"—Remarks to the University of Nebraska women\'s volleyball team, the 2001 national champions, Washington, D.C., May 31, 2001
\"Our nation must come together to unite.\"—Tampa, Fla., June 4, 2001
\"So on behalf of a well-oiled unit of people who came together to serve something greater than themselves, congratulations.\"—Remarks to the University of Nebraska women\'s volleyball team, the 2001 national champions, Washington, D.C., May 31, 2001
\"If a person doesn\'t have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all.\"—Remarks to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund Institute, Washington, D.C., May 22, 2001
\"Thirdly, the explorationists are willing to only move equipment during the winter, which means they\'ll be on ice roads, and remove the equipment as the ice begins to melt, so that the fragile tundra is protected.\"—Conestoga, Pa., May 18, 2001
\"Presidents, whether things are good or bad, get the blame. I understand that.\"—Washington, D.C., May 11, 2001 (Thanks to Jay Schlossberg.)
\"For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It\'s just unacceptable. And we\'re going to do something about it.\"—Philadelphia, May 14, 2001 (Thanks to John Brooks.)
\"There\'s no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.\"—Washington, D.C., May 11, 2001
\"But I also made it clear to [Vladimir Putin] that it\'s important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe.\"—Washington, D.C., May 1, 2001 (Thanks to Gene Mosher.)
\"Whatever it took to help Taiwan defend theirself.\"—On how far we\'d be willing to go to defend Taiwan, Good Morning America, April 25, 2001
\"First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country.\"—On the Kyoto accord in an interview with the Washington Post, April 24, 2001
\"It\'s very important for folks to understand that when there\'s more trade, there\'s more commerce.\"—Quebec City, Canada, April 21, 2001
\"Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican.\"—Declining to answer reporters\' questions at the Summit of the Americas, Quebec City, Canada, April 21, 2001
\"We must have the attitude that every child in America—regardless of where they\'re raised or how they\'re born—can learn.\"—New Britain, Conn., April 18, 2001 (Thanks to Eric Beerbohm.)
\"It is time to set aside the old partisan bickering and finger-pointing and name-calling that comes from freeing parents to make different choices for their children.\"—Remarks on \"parental empowerment in education,\" Washington, D.C., April 12, 2001 (Thanks to J.R. Taylor.)
I think we\'re making progress. We understand where the power of this country lay. It lays in the hearts and souls of Americans. It must lay in our pocketbooks. It lays in the willingness for people to work hard. But as importantly, it lays in the fact that we\'ve got citizens from all walks of life, all political parties, that are willing to say, I want to love my neighbor. I want to make somebody\'s life just a little bit better.\"—Concord Middle School, Concord, N.C., April 11, 2001 |
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