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Aviation Pro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-08-06 10:59 AM
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Spanish Fluency
Apparently, Asshole's command of the Spanish language is best summed up here:

Wrote Bumiller: "Various fluent Spanish speakers, depending on their political persuasion, describe Mr. Bush's Spanish as halting to conversational, but all give him high marks for trying. As the Spanish wire service Agencia EFE has noted, Mr. Bush speaks the language poorly 'but with great confidence.' Other Spanish speakers quibbled last year with Mr. Bush's pronunciation when he made the first radio address in Spanish by a United States president. They noted, for example, that he stumbled over the words administracion and nuestros intereses, or our interests."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html

I guess this makes Asshole the male version of another moron from Texas (by way of Montana):

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GDAEx2 Donating Member (381 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-08-06 11:05 AM
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1. Why should his fluency in Spanish be any better than his
command of he English language?
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Lisa0825 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-08-06 11:07 AM
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2. I am only moderately fluent,
as far as grammar goes, but my pronunciation s quite good. When i hear him attempt to speak spanish, I CRINGE. His pronunciation is as bad as any second semester student I have ever known.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-08-06 11:15 AM
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3. "poorly, but with great confidence" sums up just about everything
about the Chimp and his team and their attempts to do anything at all.

Seriously, the one time I tolerated him long enough to hear him speaking any Spanish was during the 2004 campaign. He screwed up his NUMBERS. Honestly folks, that's the first thing everybody learns after the dirty words.

His Spanish is at least as awful as his English is.
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demosincebirth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-08-06 01:04 PM
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4. I've been around Mexican people my whole life and they seen to
have more respect, so to speak, (maybe not Bush) for people who at least try to learn and speak their language than ones who don't.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-08-06 01:09 PM
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5. He speaks yahoo spanglish
probably understands about 3% when he hears it spoken..
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debbierlus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-08-06 01:31 PM
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6. That doesn't bother me, it is his English that is embarrassing!

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