Posted on 09/15/2015 4:20:37 PM PDT by maggief
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(Columba) Bush decided to continue campaigning, especially in Latino communities, where her presence and bilingual skills were highly valued. Later that year, at the Republican National Convention, she took the podium to second her father-in-law's nomination. She had prayed to the Virgin of San Juan for strength. After much prayer and thought, she would give up her Mexican citizenship to vote for George Bush.
"That was a difficult decision to make because up until then I didn't see any necessity to change my citizenship. My husband wanted me to stay as a Mexican citizen, and the whole family has always respected my decision. I changed my citizenship to vote for my father-in-law."
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Honoring the Family Name : * Culture: 'I'm not interested in politics,' says Columba Bush, the President's daughter-in-law. Still, she knows how to campaign for a cause: her native Mexico.
Jeb, it’s your policies.
If you had the right ones, you’d be in the game.
I have nothing against your wife, but guy, it’s not just your lack of personality. It’s your ideas. They are tried and failed ideas.
I will say that it is unseemly the dedication you seem to have for looking out for a demographic that has abused our nation considerably. We all know what parts of that community are doing it, but it’s just insulting as can be for you to side with them over the Citizens of the U. S.
Playing up the language and culture thing, it ensures that I will never give you a vote.
You’re angling to get a significant segment of a 13% segment of our population, and offending a very high number of the majority population base.
Favoring the demographic you do and ignoring every other racial demographic is evidence of... dare I say it... should I... RACISM!
KNOCK IT OFF!
Press 1 for Trump.
Press 2 to be deported.
I can’t stand ANY Bushwomen. Todas las detesto.
So, she didn’t want to assimilate? Got it!
“My husband wanted me to stay as a Mexican citizen”
That is a Yeb issue.
It’s not just his policies.
It’s his uninspiring and unpersuasive personality and that his father and brother already just recently were presidents, as well.
I think they rise and fall on those personal choices. I think it’s the wrong choice.
Why should I be anxious to have a woman be first lady that doesn’t care to act is if this is her nation of choice.
It’s insulting to me as a citizen who is proud of the nation I elect to live in.
Jeb did not want to her assimilate as well. Very telling...
I’m tired of people’s personal stories dictating immigration policy. GWB: “I was practically raised by my Mexican nanny. Hence, we need to throw the door open wide!”
Well, I don’t want to criticize the issue more, but I think it would disturb most citizens of other nations, if someone went there and refused to adopt their culture and learn their language. Being critical of that nation under those circumstances would bother them, and it should.
If I moved to a small town in Mexico, decided to live there for the rest of my life, then refused to learn Spanish, flew my U. S. flag, and criticized everything going on there, I would deserve to be tar and feathered and sent out of town on a rail.
I’m not suggesting this for you, because I don’t know you at all. I’m only saying to make it clear I’m not trying to send a message to you.
I’m only addressing myself in that type of situation.
Well ultimately, I believe you are right. Personality is important or you don’ get elected. Still, Jeb wouldn’t be taking a pounding day after day if his policies were sound.
We already have a first lady who doesn’t like this country.
I agree. Our personal stories are ones that should either conform to the laws of our nation, or they shouldn’t be used as examples.
I think Latina women are very attractive. I could easily see a situation where I would get to know and marry another one.
My second wife was of Mexican ancestry. I loved her and her family very much.
We have grounds people who are of Mexican ancestry. They are U. S. Citizens, and they don’t like seeing the illegals get away with what they do.
They recognize how our nation is being gamed today, and they know there has been a massive change in that since the 80s and before.
The elder guy should be the most sympathetic to illegals coming over, because he is closer to the folks who did come over at some point for all I know legally. In that era, it wasn’t as easy to get away with it as it is today.
He is very strident against illegal immigration.
All Mexican ancestry people I know are against it.
I don’t know a single person for it. I will say, that covers about 30 people.
Mexican decedents that is.
Agreed...
You know, there’s something REALLY odd about that. And I don’t mean it as a political swipe, but as a personal thing. As an American.
I’m with you.
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Campaign `88 - GOP heavily courting Hispanic voteHide Details
Houston Chronicle (TX) (Published as Houston Chronicle) - AUGUST 21, 1988
NEW ORLEANS - While Hispanics made up a small percentage of the delegates to the Republican National Convention, they were given a high profile by a party heavily courting their votes this fall.
Hispanic speakers at the convention included U.S. Rep. Manuel Lujan Jr. of New Mexico, who gave a podium to address, Columba Bush, the Mexican-born daughter-in-law of GOP nominee George Bush, to Houstonian Ninfa Laurenzo, who mentioned her successful restaurant chain in her seconding speech. Columba Bush spoke partly in Spanish when she seconded her father-in-law’s nomination.
And while many delegates at the convention support having English made the nation’s official language, the Republican National Committee broadcast network provided a gavel-to-gavel satellite feed of the convention simultaneously translated into Spanish.
The Republicans know they must work for the Hispanic vote. They face a bilingual Democratic ticket: presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, governor of Massachusetts, and his running mate, Texas Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, are fluent in Spanish.
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THE QUIET LIFE OF COLUMBA BUSH
Miami Herald, The (FL) - January 19, 1989
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During a campaign picnic in Indio, Calif., Columba spotted a group of Mexican-Americans demonstrating for Dukakis. Disregarding political differences, Columba invited the pickets to join her for lunch. “They’re fellow Mexicans,” she reasoned.
They refused. Columba still doesn’t understand why.
But, on many of these occasions there were monumental struggles with jittery nerves and the English language. Last August Bush referred to his grandchildren in a conversation with the president as “Jebby’s kids from Florida, the little brown ones.”
“I was trembling the next day,” says Columba. But her fear, she says, was that her children would be hurt by the “hype” over their grandfather’s comment. As for the remark itself, Columba took it as a sign of affection. In Latin culture, she points out, loved ones are many times referred to with words some North Americans may consider odd — negro, gordo (fat), viejo (old).
Columba defended the comment, lashing out at the “misinterpretation” of her father-in-law by the public. The controversy taught her a difficult lesson in American politics, but it did not bother her, she says, because it was expressed with a grandfather’s love.
“Brown,” she said at the time, “is a beautiful color.”
“My father-in-law is so sensitive. Sometimes I think he displays too much love for my children,” says Columba.
This same devotion to Bush led her to become a U.S. citizen months before the election. She became a citizen, she says, to vote for Bush.
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