Posted on 02/23/2016 2:30:34 PM PST by jimbo123
On what turned out to be the last full day of Jeb Bush's presidential campaign, a man with a distinctively English accent stood to ask him a question.
"Can you vote?" Bush interrupted with amusement.
"I don't think so," the man responded. "I've had the privilege of reporting for the Times of London - "
"Oh, you're a reporter, too!" Bush cut in again. (The man was a columnist.)
And then, there in Greenville, South Carolina, Bush said something that left no doubt he was still Miami Jeb: "This is going from Guatemala to Guate-peor!"
I laughed, but few others did. Besides Bush's wife and son, a Colombian-born voter, and another bilingual reporter present, no one else seemed to get it. From bad to worse, Bush had said - using a Spanish-language colloquialism.
Moments like this made covering Bush's candidacy particularly endearing for a Miami reporter. When I least expected it, Bush would show flashes of his inner Hispanic
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That was actually a very witty joke by Bush. I have to give him credit for that.
Nice, but not a match. We are not looking for that quaint little town of “El Paso”, as sung by Marty Robbins.
El Caudillo, neutered.
Pobrecito.
He had no business running for POTUS.
It made me chuckle, but I wonder how many not conversant in a little Spanish caught on.
I should think it was witty. He had been practicing that line for weeks after all.
Yeah, he just needed to campaign more in a foreign language to foreigners who can’t vote (legally) .
(Jay and the Americans).
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