(Audio) Bush doing his weekly address in Spanish on Cinco de Mayo 2001

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Ahhh, the hypocrisy of it all.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/05/20010505.ram

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His recent decision to have weekly radios addresses in both English and Spanish, which started with the week of Cinco de Mayo, continues his process of attempting to capture more Latino voters who in the last election preferred Al Gore by a margin of 2-1.
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http://www.laprensa-sandiego.org/archieve/august17/comment2.htm

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/05/20010505.ram

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/05

[BOSSHOG]

1. I believe weekly addresses should be done in English

and if you want to do those addresses, by gawd you should do them in English. The weekly radio address changed everything. Let's hope the next one is not a mushroom cloud.

He's become a punchline.

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. *gasp*

can't...catch...breath...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Rocknrule]

2. It'll be like "The Mexican"

"UUhhhhhh, todayo es Cinco dy Mayo, and I need to get el rido to el towno in el trucko"

[treestar]

4. So Dobelvey mangles two languages - I had read before that

he speaks Spanish, "haltingly." LOL, he speaks English "haltingly!"

[soup]

5. audio here

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/05/

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6. Oh, you rock!

:yourock:

[DURHAM D]

7. KO could find a story in this -

spanish radio address - good

national anthem in spanish - bad, very bad.

What a bunch of arrogant tools these repugs.

[soup]

8. Unless it's 1919 -

then it's ok.

>in 1919, the U.S. Bureau of Education commissioned a Spanish-language version of “The Star Spangled Banner.”<


source: http://thinkprogress.org/author/amanda/