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Sarah Palin Auditions For Trump Cabinet, Urges Country To 'Speak American'
Source: Huffington Post
Sarah Palin Auditions For Trump Cabinet, Urges Country To 'Speak American'
She's back, baby.
Igor Bobic
Associate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post
Posted: 09/06/2015 11:40 AM EDT
WASHINGTON -- In what could be a bid for a post in a future Donald Trump administration, Sarah Palin emerged out of the weeds on Sunday and urged the country to "speak American."
Republican presidential candidate Trump, who continues to dominate the polls in the early primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire, escalated his feud with rival Jeb Bush this week when he chided the former Florida governor for speaking Spanish on the campaign trail. Bush, who is bilingual and whose wife was born in Mexico, vowed to keep speaking Spanish whenever he feels like it.
Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, said that even though being fluent in Spanish was "a benefit" to Bush, immigrants should still learn a language that is "understood by all."
"I think that it's a benefit of Jeb Bush to be able to be so fluent in Spanish, because we have a large and wonderful Hispanic population that, you know, is helping to build America. And that's good. And that's a great relationship ... and connection that he has with them through his wife and through his family connections," she said in an interview on CNN.
"On the other hand, you know, I think we can send a message and say, you want to be in America, A, you'd better be here legally or you're out of here; B, when you're here, let's speak American," she added, before quickly correcting herself. "I mean that's what's -- let's speak English and that's a kind of a unifying aspect of the nation is the language that is understood by all.”
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She's back, baby.
Igor Bobic
Associate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post
Posted: 09/06/2015 11:40 AM EDT
WASHINGTON -- In what could be a bid for a post in a future Donald Trump administration, Sarah Palin emerged out of the weeds on Sunday and urged the country to "speak American."
Republican presidential candidate Trump, who continues to dominate the polls in the early primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire, escalated his feud with rival Jeb Bush this week when he chided the former Florida governor for speaking Spanish on the campaign trail. Bush, who is bilingual and whose wife was born in Mexico, vowed to keep speaking Spanish whenever he feels like it.
Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, said that even though being fluent in Spanish was "a benefit" to Bush, immigrants should still learn a language that is "understood by all."
"I think that it's a benefit of Jeb Bush to be able to be so fluent in Spanish, because we have a large and wonderful Hispanic population that, you know, is helping to build America. And that's good. And that's a great relationship ... and connection that he has with them through his wife and through his family connections," she said in an interview on CNN.
"On the other hand, you know, I think we can send a message and say, you want to be in America, A, you'd better be here legally or you're out of here; B, when you're here, let's speak American," she added, before quickly correcting herself. "I mean that's what's -- let's speak English and that's a kind of a unifying aspect of the nation is the language that is understood by all.”
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Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sarah-palin-donald-trump-american_55ec4d8ce4b03784e27619b3
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[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Obviously not English...that shit is European.[/font]
(She is Chinese, and we were both had come from a Japanese Language class) When someone had to come up to me and told me, this was America! In this country we speak American! "Ifin ya'don't like it, take it back to Chiner!" This person was obviously a visitor to San Francisco and their first visit to Fisherman's wharf. My friend looked at him and said, "Look around you bubb, You're out numbered!" Than we hurried off for some crab and sour dough sandwiches after class! Oishii ne, I mean...Yummy!!
