Greg Palast: "The President says Immigrants 'Must Learn to Misinterpretate

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English'"

Friday, May 5, 2006

"OK, I made that up. The quote may be fabricated, but, for Cinco de Mayo, our President did really, truly demand that, "Those who come here to our country have a responsibility to learn the English language."



Fair enough. Certainly, would-be citizens, indeed all citizens, should be required to comprehend the following sample of the Mother Tongue, spoken by the President himself. This is from Mr. Bush's February 4, 2005 explanation of how he will "save" our Social Security system. Take notes, class, there will be a test:

Ladies and Gentlemen, The President of the United States:

"Because the -- all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculate, for example, is on the table; whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those -- changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be -- or closer delivered to what has been promised. DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE TO YOU? IT'S KIND OF MUDDLED. Look, there's a series of things that cause the -- like, for example, benefits are calculated based upon inflation, as opposed to wage increases. This is a reform that would help solve the red if that were put into effect. In other words, how fast benefits grow, how fast the promised benefits grow, if those -- that that growth is affect, it will help on the red."

http://gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=500&row=0

[Eurobabe]

1. Anyone for Prez should have to submit to a drug test

background check, IQ test, etc.

This moron would have failed all...

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2. I know. And I've been chewing on THIS snippet-

"that that growth is affect, it will help on the red."

for quite some time.
:nuke: God, we are in deep shit.

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3. LMAO...

Thank's for digging that quote up. It's classic.

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5. I swear, sometimes I don't know whether to

laugh or cry!~

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4. Maybe his nanny can translate for us

Karen Hughes seems to be fluent in Dubya:

The Prime Minister himself experience was participated in an American Exchange program. And he feels very strongly that those people to people exchanges. We met with this morning with some Alumni of those people to people exchanges and what I’ve heard here in Egypt is how important that people to people, that person to person eye to eye contact is in getting to better know and understand each other. And by the way two way exchanges, not only having Egyptians come to the United States which we want them to do but also have more Americans visit Egypt.

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I really say that my job which is public diplomacy is about people. It’s about people and it’s about our policies. Because I recognize that our policies have an impact on people’s lives and I think I’ve learned as I’ve listened to people here that sometimes policy decisions that there are two sides to the coin. And you have one set of views in one place and a different set of views in another. Take for example the Palestinian issue. The goal of our United States policy in Palestine is that the Palestinian people might have the opportunity for a better life. That young people growing up in Palestine who -- that they have an opportunity to be educated and to have a job and too. I remember meeting with someone who told me how many Palestinian young people because they don’t have an opportunity to have a job, don’t feel that they can afford to be married and to have children, to have the experience of having children and families. And that’s what we want for the Palestinian people. That is the goal of our policy.

http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2005&m=September&x=20050926172747cpataruk0.615185&t=livefeeds/wf-latest.html

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Oh my God! OK, that is truly funny!

:rofl: Thank you for that!

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6. Once again he finds himself above the law ;-)

when is he going to learn the English language?

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7. Try and decipher this nugget:

"For example, how benefits are calculate, for example, is on the table"

Aw, geeze!

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8. Misinterpretate?

Sounds exactly like something Jethro would say on the beverly hillbillies.

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9. Hillbilly.

That is the perfect word for *.