This man is an asshat!
| We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture. Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende. For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America. Our future cannot be separated from the future of Latin America. As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico. George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000. |
Here is an excerpt of a good critique of that speech:
In equating our intimate historic bonds to our mother country and to Canada with our ties to Mexico, W. shows a staggering ignorance of the civilizational facts of life. The reason we are so close to Britain and Canada is that we share with them a common historical culture, language, literature, and legal system, as well as similar standards of behavior, expectations of public officials, and so on. My Bush Epiphany By Lawrence Auster
After Bush took office in 2001, he often said that better relations with Mexico was his number one foreign policy goal. Of course, he wasn’t telling us about his amnesty for illegals plan, just a lot of feel good stuff. But 9/11 happened and that side-tracked him for the rest of his first term.
Then, after lying about his stance on amnesty during a 2004 debate with Kerry, he and Rove starting pushing amnesty (while refusing to admit they were pushing amnesty) and pushed it throughout most of his second term. That and a few other divisive moves did incalculable harm to the Republican cause and paved the way for Obama and the large Dim majorities in Congress.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Archive/Bush_Kerry_3_Immigration.htm