[gwb43_2004]

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[SouthernFreebird]

They sound more like the Clintons everyday. If one won't the other will, just another way to cover all bases.

[aquila48]

Knock another 5 to 8 points from Bush's poll numbers...

[inquest]

So in other words, GWB said what he said only for his base's consumption. She wouldn't have publicly broke ranks with him if he'd asked her not to.

[weegee]

Except they called it 'OUR Anthem'.

Why not poll the French on how they would like to hear a German version of the French National Anthem (including some yrics).

[raybbr]

I would really like to know if she would feel the same way if it was sung in Polish, German, Swahili, Korean, etc. Do any of these people actually believe in the culture that has given them so much anymore?

[Ann Archy]

Laura has lost some of my respect lately. WHY does a wife think it's cool to go against what her husband says publicly??? I don't get it....soooooo classless.....

Laura is to blame for the Harriet Myers fiasco, I am convinced.....and maybe she is holding Bushie back from going after the bad guys with full force!!

[michigander]

What a cluster.....

[Doe Eyes]

Waiting to see the first Freeper to tell her to STFU.

[jwh_Denver]

Another big flush from the White House and the United States is the septic tank.

[sheana]

.....and I am sooooooooo sick of that "we are a nation of immigrants" bs. I AM NOT AN IMMIGRANT! I was friggin born here and can trace ny ancestors back to the 1800's.
Heck every nation is a nation of immigrants if you go by their standards.
Jst another load of crap I am sick of hearing.

[Cedar]

If you listen to her complete answer, she goes on to say the anthem should be done in English....but since America has people of other languages living here, it's ok to see it in another language.

She then compares it to seeing the words of "Amazing Grace" in the hymnbook---in English, but also written at the bottom in another language.

Her main emphasis when answering the question is the fact that it is the anthem of the United States and should be said in respect of the United States.

[FreedomSurge]

The Bushes (Arbustos) think this is good politics.

[nicmarlo]

First Lady Laura Bush broke with husband President George W. Bush, saying she found nothing wrong with a new Spanish-language version of the US national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."

Uh, fyi ping.

[CdMGuy]

Sounds like she is getting to be as incompetent as he already is.

[Chena]

Once again the MSM will manage to make a mountain out of a molehill. Sadder still is the fact that so many people will actually rise to the bait.

[9999lakes]

I don't see anything wrong with the anthem in Spanish. There is a Christian Mission Group, Wycliff, whose whole method of work is to find a group that does not have the Bible translated into their language, translate it, and then present the published work.

Usually it takes years to do the job. Their thinking is...People, even people who know other languages, always respond best in their own language.

[brazzaville]

Good evening.

I wonder if our First Lady knows that the words have been changed, rather than there just being a translation from English to Spanish.

Michael Frazier

[9999lakes]

One other related thought. At President Bush's 1st inauguaration, back when it still seemed possible to form some kind of workable bond with Mexican immigrants, the President had a Mexican pop singer do "America The Beautiful" in Spanish.

It was a great idea, and long, long ago. Better days for the conservative movement.

[RegulatorCountry]

Well, well ... the women are for it and the men are agin' it. I'm beginning to sense that polling number show a slight rift along gender lines.

[Garry Boldwater]

I think the Bushes all weep at night that more third world nations don't border our country.