Anyone have a link other than AP...please post.
“Let me close by talking briefly about my respect and gratitude for the contributions of Hispanic-Americans to the culture, economy and security of the country I have served all my adult life. I represent Arizona where Spanish was spoken before English was, and where the character and prosperity of our state owes a great deal to the many Arizonans of Hispanic descent who live there,” McCain said.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/07/mccain_obama_co.html
Way to go juan!
Vive La Raza, Mi Amigo Juanito De La Amnestia!!!!!!!
Wow... this is who the Republican Party nominated for the presidency? This is not Mexico, no matter how badly the Mexicans want it to be. Arizona is part of the United States, which speaks English! By his logic, we should all be speaking Iriquois or Cherokee (or any number of native American religions)
How’s his Aztec?
I represent Arizona where Spanish was spoken before English was,
Way to go Juan! Make sure that you lose BIG time, okay?
Aye carumba.
Please McCain, I beg to stop trying to lose the election.
The message he sends is atrocious, but the statement is factually correct.
He gave the same speech today at LULAC that he did before NALEO including the line about Spanish being spoken in AZ before English. I wonder what kind of message he is trying to send with this line.
it’s a fact!
The sad part is that McCain feels more comfortable in old Mexico where he spent the Fourth of July than the middle of Indiana. Criticize Hillary all you want, but she looked comfortable in the middle of Indiana downing a Crown Royal with a beer chaser, something Snobama or the RINO relic could never manage on their best days.
McCain has to realize that America is an English speaking nation, that the roots of our society and government are Anglo-Saxon, not Spanish-Mexican. If he keeps this up, he will lose.
He might not be aware that other languages were spoken in what is now Arizona before the first Spaniard went looking for the Seven Cities of gold. Spanish is one of the last languages to be spoken in that region.
McLame Ping (should we make a McLameTruthSquad Pinglist?)
...to think that Wesley Clark almost had me convinced to vote for this guy...
Spanish - language of the Conquistadores.
Here’s how I choose to hear it:
...where spanish was spoknen [BEFORE WE KICKED YOUR FAT A**ES OUT].
Someone should give John pandering lessions.
Pandering? Oh. That’s right, long ago, the English were in AZ - before the Hispanics and Native American Indians arrived....
I cannot vote for this man.
That was when we heard words like "manana" and "mordida" -- then the Gringos came in with their funny words like "now" and "create" and screwed things up.
McCain continues to shoot himself in the foot.
Ping a Ling.
And Apache before that ... but that’s not a very big voting bloc.
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The man is insufferable.
When I saw him say that I almost puked. He just doesn’t “get it” that America belongs to Americans, NOT to Mexico/Mexicans. Not yet, anyway! Not until they sign amnesty and then they will have handed over the US to Mexico. HOW can they be sooo darn stupid??? We are screwed as a nation in 08, no matter which one of the traitors wins, short of a revolution, and then the dummies might get the message!! And these fools wonder why their approval rate is @ 9%.
Apache and Comanche languages were spoken in Arizona before Spanish. The Spanish tried but failed to steal Arizona from these tribes.
The Pope divided up the New world between the Portuguese and Spanish. This allowed the Spanish/Mexico to claim Arizona and a few other states but never they settled them or controlled them
English was spoken on the moon first. Does that mean we own the moon?
So he says.
In English.
All politicians are basically prostitutes.
All the John McCain Loyalist remind me of Battered wives.
He beats them up on Thursdays and Saturdays and their mantra is “Oh he is not so bad” My other husband use to beat me up 5 days a week” I have it pretty good now!!
When I tell others that I am voting for Chuck Baldwin because I believe the Constitution and it’s principles are the most important. I am told I am throwing away my vote.
THIS ARTICLE is MORE proof I am not throwing away my vote.
JOHN MC CAIN THREW AWAY MY VOTE!!
And now I am picking it up and voting Constitution Party.
He's a Leftist Liberal who believes that the United States is an illegitimate creation.
Only the Conquistador nations are legitimate. Or the aboriginal tribes like the Yaqui, Apache, Pima etc.
Just not the Evil United States, and its White Anglo-Saxon Protestant founders.
It's funny to hear McDimWit say things like this. Having been born and raised in Arizona long before he arrived, he wouldn't remember the real state as it was prior 1980: overwhelmingly WASP. And it had always been that way; the majority original settlers weren't Mexican or even Spaniard...they were Mormons. The Mexican settlements in Tucson and Tubac were tiny, and the Mexican rancheros hardly existed north of present day Nogales.
But he wouldn't know that. He arrived in Arizona in the early 80's when illegal immigration from Mexico really got going, so he thinks that's the way the place looked. The truth is, I didn't see a word in Spanish on a billboard until 1976...before that, it was all English.
Arizona was settled by the Americans. The Mexicans didn't want it because they couldn't make anything of it. Now that somebody else did, they want to steal it....which has always been the only way the Spaniard "societies" worked.
The result of that is plain to see...Mexico and the rest of Latin America.
This is what we will become under either McCain or Obama, and the World will be the worse for it.
All the hispandering in the world is not going to get mccain more than 20% to 30% of what is arguably a tiny part of the overall vote. Not only is he wasting his time he’s losing the electorate that is going to be needed to elect GOP representatives across the country, whether it be local, state, or national. In short he’s killing the party though I don’t expect anything will be done to stop the train wreck, most of the GOP leadership probably agrees with the out of touch, anti-American twerp.
Note the flag's in the fireplace and Osama's on the wall.