Posted on 05/03/2006 4:58:30 PM PDT by gwb43_2004
WASHINGTON (AFP) - 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."
"I don't think there's anything wrong with singing it in Spanish," Bush told CNN television in an interview.
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I am thinkin the tribulation is about here. My USA has fallen in a stinkin pile of trouble. What's the madder with this woman
Good post Smartass, I agree with you and am disappointed in the First Lady!
Even if you don't speak the language, you can learn to fumble your way through the English, making a best effort. That would demonstration an aspiration to solidarity with American culture.
Singing it in Spanish in this militant "context" (even if the correct words were used) is a declaration of a new type of citizenship -- Mexican/American...not a transitory hyphenation but a dual-citizenship. It makes me sick.
Well I guess you should know, after all....
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ROFL...the man is not fluent in English!
1. STROPHE
Auf, Kinder des Vaterlands!
Der Tag des Ruhms ist da.
Gegen uns wurde der Tyrannei
blutiges Banner erhoben. (zweimal)
Hört Ihr im Land
Das Brüllen der grausamen Krieger?
Sie rücken uns auf den Leib,
Eure Söhne, Eure Frauen zu köpfen!
REFRAIN
Zu den Waffen, Bürger!
Schließt die Reihen,
Vorwärts, marschieren wir!
Das unreine Blut
tränke unserer Äcker Furchen!
LOL....now I'm ashamed! It was so easy I should have passed it by LOL
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Apparently nothing is sacred anymore as we merge countries...
I guess she doesn't want to offend the "little brown one".
Well they are to some people, but not to those like Kidron and his ilk.
A remix to be released in June contains several lines in English that condemn U.S. immigration laws. Among them: ["It’s time to make a difference the kids, men and the women. Let’s stand for our beliefs, let’s stand for our vision. What about the children."] "These kids have no parents, cause all of these mean laws ... let’s not start a war with all these hard workers, they can’t help where they were born."
* * * Kidron, a U.S. resident for 16 years, maintains the changes are fitting. After all, he notes, American immigrants borrowed the melody of the "Star Spangled Banner” from an English drinking song.
"There’s no attempt to usurp anything. The intent is to communicate," Kidron said. "I wanted to show my thanks to these people who buy my records and listen to the music we release and do the jobs I don’t want to do."
Still doesn't explain what seems to be the Bush's preferential treatment about all things hispanic.
Maybe because less Canadians and English citizens vote in the US than Mexican???? Ya think?
What's insulting is that this was a calculated statement; not "off-the-cuff" at all.
I agree, this is Clintonesque.
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She lost mine when she started making crude and lewd jokes about Desperate Housewives, etc., and pal'ing around with the liberals at that conference (I think it was last year).
I guess I never thought about how she could be a supporter of this invasion too.<<
While her husband called Minutemen "vigilantes" she suggested that the Miers opponents were sexists.
The masks are off, the true colors are plain to see, and I don't think they really care.
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