[pogo101]

I wish I knew Spanish myself. Would you believe I had to go to an online Spanish rhyming dictionary to find "sorpresa" and "promesa" -- or, for that matter, that there exists such a thing as an online Spanish rhyming dictionary?

Rocinante (literally meaning something like "super nag") was Don Quixote's swaybacked horse, although to Quixote he was as proud and healthy a warhorse as any knight could want. Quixote & steed LOOKED ridiculous, set in humorous contrast to how noble Quixote himself acted all the time.

[daviddennis]

I don't know if invoking Don Quixote is the best image for Bustamante, since Quixote was in his own way a hero.

Not a title I'd give Bustamante, the drab political hack.

I have grave doubts about Bustamante's suitability to be governor. Unless I hear some evidence to the contrary, he seems like an unintelligent person whose political operation is largely run by his staff.

From reading a few of them, I got the impression that his staff ghostwrites all the impossibly dull speeches he needs for the job, and he recites them woodenly at rubber-chicken events.

You have to check this out for a laugh. There's an ad for one of Univision's sexy shows on the left, and Cruz Bustamante, looking particularly dumb in the picture on the right, appears to be leering at it. I had to laugh, and I just hope they'll keep the page with the same ad so you can see. (I found it when doing a Google search for the Bustamante speech page).

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