Posted on 02/03/2005 9:25:35 AM PST by kjfpolitical
I don't know what Mexicans you are talking about that don't speak spanish. The ones I know in Texas speak spanish just fine. Don't lump all Mexicans together.
The Republicans are taking the gloves off and starting to wonder aloud if the dems are racist and trying to keep Gonzales down due to his race and Martinez employed their shared language to that effort.
And they're absolutely right to do it. That is the reason the dems are blocking Gonzales, at least in part.
The Senate should not have made an exception.
You are a liar!
Why?
Ask you friends if they understand Cubans speaking Spanish. You might be surprised. Besides, I didn't say Mexicans don't speak Spanish, I said that they don't speak the correct version of Spanish. The Mexicans from around Mexico City speak correct Spanish but the rest do not.
The Senate did grant permission which was the correct thing to do.
You are wrong (as is your habit).
I don't think it's fair to put words in his mouth like that.
The only Mexicans that speak correct Spanish are not only in Mexico City. How about Monterrey, Guadalajara, Veracruz, etc. The main reason that Cubans and Mexicans along with Colombians, Venezuelans etc. MAY have trouble understanding each other is because of the accent. Just like in the United States people from the south may have trouble understanding people from the north and vice versa. It is because of the accent. Take Louisiana and Texas. We each might use a different word to describe something but we understand each other quite well, of course.
I hope this helps.
At least you understand. This is all I am saying that most of the Mexicans don't understand the Cuban Spanish. Evidently, Martinez was speaking to the Cubans not the Mexicans.
Are you saying that the Mexicans did not understand what Senator Martinez said in Spanish?
Don't ask me, ask your friends.
I'd love to hear Sen. Lieberman speak German on the Senate floor and hear all the cr@p that would fly from that.
When I go home I will listen with my faulty Spanish I picked up in Miami. (Donde esta los ratones?)
I bet it was pretty vanilla, and everyone probably understood. I was in St. Maartin, and when some guy said something in spanish there, is sounded more like dutch! :-)
You're right about that. Maybe it was just your Mexican American friend didn't know much Spanish, being born here and all. Possible. Cubans speak spanish really fast, too. The people in Argentina speak Spanish with an Italian accent. Really beautiful.
you are in America, you have the right and privilige to learn another language!!
That seems to be the last thing he wants to do.
"Personally, I would worry about a policy that permits someone, a local law enforcement official, to use this authority somehow as a club to harass -- they might be undocumented aliens, but otherwise lawful citizens. That would be troubling. That would be troubling to the president who, as a governor of a -- former governor of a border state understands and appreciates the roles that immigrants and undocumented aliens play in our society."
Check it yourself:
AG Nominee Gonzales on Illegal Immigration (Confirmation Hearing Excerpts)
But don't let that stop you from believing otherwise.
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