Posted on 09/15/2015 9:33:35 AM PDT by jimbo123
Gov. Jeb Bush has released a Spanish-language Internet ad, in which his Mexican-born wife makes her first appearance of the campaign to deliver a halting, accented and simple English pitch, while he speaks happily in confident Spanish.
Columba Bush rarely speaks in public, and English is not her native language. She was born in Mexico, and moved to the United States with Jeb Bush.
Her 15-second scripted comments are very simple. “I have lived more than half my life here. So, you know, I agree that we all have the same interests, the same feelings. We go to church every Sunday. We have celebrations with the family. We keep our traditions. You know, but at the end it’s just that, you know, faith, friends and family.”
In contrast, Bush smiles broadly as he speaks Spanish throughout the 1 minute video.
Columba can speak English. But she’s much more confident when speaking in Spanish.
In 2003, she gave a heavily-accented speech on anti-drug measures.
In 1998, she spoke well and pleasantly — in Spanish — for a Bush campaign ad.
In 2011, she spoke animatedly and well when giving a Spanish-language tour of the Florida governor’s mansion.
Columba’s limited English-language abilities may hurt Bush’s outreach to GOP voters. Polls show Bush stuck below 10 percent in New Hampshire, at 5 percent in Iowa, and 8.5 percent in South Carolina.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Ay Caramba!
Many years ago long before immigration was an issue, a cousin of mine told me that our founding documents could not be properly translated and understood in Spanish because of the inadequacy of that language for that task.
Was she a Hispanophobe? Hardly. She and her family travelled extensively in Mexico and Central America. She taught English to Spanish speaking immigrants and hosted exchange students from Central America.
She was actively involved in campaigning to make English out official language.
So, speak English, Jeb.
Yeb habla espanol? Who knew? /sarc
But but wait! leftists are always telling us how quickly Hispanics “ assimilate”>
Why in nearly 40 years has she not learned English more proficiently?
I can tell you from living in Texas Hispanics do NOT assimilate an we pander to them so they don’t have to.
Not for Bush but she speaks better English than Graham’s wife.
Yeb wants to be el presidente de Amexica.
Columba has lived more than half her life in the US and still can’t speak fluent English???? More evidence that she doesn’t want to assimilate and has Mexicanized El Jebito.
That’s gonna help him for sure...
Part of my issue with immigrants is explained here. It used to be that immigrants assimilated into our culture. Now, they want us to mold to their culture. Screw that. If his wife has been here half of her life, she should be fluent in English. I'm tired of people coming here and expecting us to cater to their cultural whims. Why the hell do I have to pay for public schools to teach English as a second language. Learn to speak English and honor your culture in your own homes. When you walk into a Walmart and they don't speak Spanish...not my problem...it's yours.
They don't even see the irony when they mention Yeb's need to "outreach" to conservatives.
(Look it up on Google translate.)
Ouch! That left a mark.
Seriously though, I wouldn’t vote for Jeb! on a bet, and as much as I’d like to slam this one-time illegal alien, she doesn’t sound that bad to me.
Why are they waving condoms?
English is blessed with being a jumble of languages resulting in a wide palette of linguistic “colors” available to the user.
That is funny if you meant Lindsay Graham’s non existent wife.
I think that somebody at the CofC needs to remind JEB that he’s running for president of the US, and that the majority of the gringos don’t understand mexican espanol.
What an asshat.
Might be because English is the language with the largest vocabulary. It's the Borg of languages absorbing words and phraseology from just about any other language on the planet.
Breitbart’s not so hot on their English, either. “Speaks good Spanish” —> “Speaks Spanish well”.
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