Pity. Wow have you ever let yourself be used.
The pic with his arm around the Hispanic young lady and the other hand holding the Mexican flag was at a Cinco de Mayo Parade in Texas years ago. He was either Gov. or running for it.
In Texas it’s traditional for Anglos to recognize the day Mexico won its independence from France, right alongside Hispanics.
Many Texas politicians of all stripes including the most conservative Republicans have recognized that day. The last GOP governor before Bush, William Clement, is on record officially proclaiming May 5 as “Cinco de Mayo Day” in the entire state of Texas.
It’s a Texas tradition, not a Bush thing per se.
Many Texas Hispanic families have been here longer than my family has. They aren’t all recent immigrants, whether legal or illegal. You’ve heard of the Alamo and San Jacinto, right? Well, in those days many Mexican families already lived in the area we call Texas and a number of them are still here after those long years.
To tie all of that into the illegal immigration issue of more recent years and to tie that all into President Bush is asinine.
To do it on a picture taken completely out of context and flashed around the ‘net as somehow representing either the current illegal immigration mess or else the entirety of the Bush Presidential record is worse than asinine.
I would tell you precisely what it is but don’t use that kind of language.
His legacy will be that of the first American president to allow (and encourage) the invasion of America by a third world dump as he left our borders wide open while constantly warning us that terrorists from the middle east were coming to get us. Putrid.
yes, it certainly is. The immigration fiasco sealed it for me. I still suppor the President and the war and mostly our military troops but...that’s it.