What a guy said to my dad...

[southernleftylady]

My dad works with some extreme right wing nut job.. well... after Teresa Heinz Kerry spoke he was complaining about her saying to my dad "i couldn't even understand her, her english was horrible and that she WASN'T American"
"how can anyone understand THAT!"

is anyone that ignorant?
and the worst part
my mother is german... and he was telling this to my dad!
which my dad followed by
"how in the WORLD could you say this to ME?!?
"if you feel comfortable saying this to me.. i wonder what you tell your other right wing friends!"
"english is one of her FIVE Lang. that she speaks! how many Lang. can you speak?"
and this isnt the first time my mom has heard things like this... after the war started she was at a bookstore and people were talking about the war... and when she started to talk this one red neck said "well you ain't even American.. you cant talk about this war"
just because of her accent...
its just crazy!!!

[Drifter]

1. Yet ...

they line up to elect the Gropenator.

Cheers
Drifter

[kwolf68]

11. Bingo

While us Democrats thought the Grope was a lousy choice for Gov...none of us ever attacked his accent.

[City Lights]

15. We didn't?

Referring to "Kol-ee-forn-yah" is pretty common around here. We made fun of his accent, but don't see his accent as the thing that makes him unfit for office.

[sendero]

2. Exactly...

... "she speaks five languages and all you speak is Southern hick. Believe me, step out of the South and nobody will understand you."

[LuLu550]

3. but I bet the guy LOOOOOOVEEES

AHHHH NOLD, right? These twits will bash anything that has to do with Democrats or anything not as right wing as they are and they don't see the hypocrisy in their stand. AH Nold is different, because he is there guy, not going to VietNam was OK for Shrub, because he is THEIR guy, Purple Hearts and bronze stars are meaningless on OUR guy...There are idiots, the fact that someone could make such a statement to your dad is all the proof you need. Don't let them get to you!

[baldguy]

4. Americans with small minds

who can't see the world beyond the end of their nose. They don't realize that America is a nation of immigrants, which means that some Americans came from somewhere else. Therefore some Americans may have an accent.

[Skidmore]

5. Good for your dad for sticking up for your

mom and all immigrants like her. I'm married to an immigrant, who works hard and does right by our family and is proud of his citizenship and his right to vote.

Did the man at least have enough sense to apologize to your father?

[southernleftylady]

6. he was speechless...

but he did said "oh not irm she can speak better than teresa"
wtf?

[wildeyed]

7. is anyone that ignorant?

Yes.

I have heard statements like that over and over since I moved to the south. And often from people who have the education and opportunity to know better, too. It's pitiful and wrong. We are a country of immigrants. We get the best and the brightest form all over the world.

[Killarney]

8. someone needs to remind him

that he descended from immigrants, too. Unless of course, he's Native American.

:toast:

Michael Moore had it right on the other day. The right does not practice patriotism, but HATEtriotism.

[Sparkly]

18. Exactly!

Most of us can trace our heritage to people who came to America speaking English with accents!!

I'll bet there are rightwingers who look at Native Americans and say, "Damn foreigners."

[many a good man]

9. I tip my hat to your dad

This is what we all have to do. We can't just stand around speechless at their stupidity and meanness. We have to turn the tables and put them in their place. We can't let the uncivil morons walk around thinking this kind of behavior is acceptable.

[Grins]

10. Did he also bitch about...

The lousy accent of former Chaiman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John M. Shalikashvili?

He was born in another country, has an accent, and spoke at the convention.

[DS1]

12. chicks that can speak five languages are hot

that's all I have to say about that

[savistocate]

13. Drifter--i've got that in my

notes for media e-mails now. I in CA, cannot say i didn't crit the Schvarzenheimer --he is truly in great part indecipherable,

Weird thing is Maria--she was at D conv--is she going to appear at Repubs too--TOO??!! She, backing up Ahnold as a populist
--will gov in the public interest competes with Bush Co for colossal Deceit.

[vetwife]

14. Tell your Dad and everyone try this..with one word..shut them up !

Kall e fornia .....I do this and they walk away and I bend over laughing.

[JayS]

16. I would love for her to be a reader on This American Life or...

...Selected Shorts. I think she would be great at it!

[cheezus]

17. Ahh cane neever oohnderstaind whut dem suthererers is sawin

and they get to talk about the war

[BarbaRosa]

19. And what is that

convoluted language bush* speaks?:shrug:

[misanthrope]

20. Ah...

...now ain't THAT America?

Sadly true.