Posted on 07/28/2015 7:52:55 AM PDT by jimbo123
There are some things Jeb Bush seems more comfortable saying in Spanish.
In his second language, the one he polished to woo his Mexican-born wife, Bush has more than once opened up in interviews in ways he has not yet in English.
That may have to do with the questions Bush, an honorary Cuban American, gets asked in Spanish versus the ones he gets asked in English. But whether it's because of Bush or because of the interviewers, the former Florida governor has expressed himself in more personal terms en español.
In Puerto Rico earlier this year, Bush's answer to whether he'd attend a same-sex wedding -- "Claro que sí" -- was far warmer in Spanish than in English. Earlier Monday, he said in Spanish that he had been "hurt" by Donald Trump's comments about Mexicans.
And in the same interview with Telemundo's José Diaz-Balart, Bush opened up about a time one of his sons, now-Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush, faced teasing because of the color of his skin.
Here's a transcript of the exchange, as translated by Telemundo:
Díaz-Balart: I know your three sons are bilingual. Were there times when they were younger where they were targeted either because of the color of their skin or their accent? And as a father how did you talk to them when they would tell you that they were laughed at because of their accent or the color of their skin?
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stay out the bushes!! ...J. Jacksome
Oh goodness. Those poor victim Bushes.
You have to be white nowadays to see discrimination.
Freaking victim! My daughter is half Mexican, and I don’t think I can recall she or I have encountered this racism. If she has, we haven’t noticed it.
The American Malinche.
And as we can see, his son turned into an abject failure because of it.
Oh wait......
Just what we need, another mealy mouthed tool from the GOP.
Sure Jeb, America sucks.
Pray America is waking
#BrownAccentsMatter
Jeb Bush whining again. What a wimp.
Bush has gone tribal.
The illegals are the only base he has left.
Jeb Bush strikes me as that person in high school who is desperate for popularity. They walk from group to group telling them what he or she thinks they want to hear in effect asking “do you like me yet, do ya?!?!? Please like me, please please. I will be anything you want me to be. Today, I hate person x, tomorrow I like person x. Like me, like me!!!”
I’m really of sick of all of this crap.
The Bushes are one of the most privileged families in the country.
I’m tired of the brown nosing and pandering.
Stop it!
I live in CA where whites are in the minority. Do we get any special consideration?
Where his sons born/raised in Mexico? If not, why would they have accents?
Jeb is accusing white people of being racist.
A whole lot more than "somethings" that Jeb prefers saying in Spanish.
Last month, Jeb Bush bragged in an ABC interview, in Spanish, that Spanish is the primary language used in his home (Link).
This despite the fact that his Mexican wife Columba has been married to him and living in the US for over 40 years.
So if you want Spanish to become the primary language used by the next occupants of the White House, Jeb is your hombre.
See post #16.
Jeb can tell us what we want to hear in Spanish or English.
You posed an excellent question “why would they have accents?” Our neighbor was born and raised in Venezuela and she speaks with an accent. Her son.. although fluent in both English and Spanish.. do not have an accent. We live in a very diverse county and I don’t know of one kid that has immigrant parents.. that have an accent.
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