VIDEO: Bush Waves The Mexican Flag
In recent weeks, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets all across the nation to protest right-wing immigration proposals. As Media Matters has documented, the fact that some demonstrators carry the Mexican flag has elicited the ire of conservative pundits. For example, Robert Novak has said:
I am no hard-liner on immigration who wants to expel 11 million illegal immigrants, but flags are a symbol of national identity. The student brandishing the Mexican flag signals divided loyalty or perhaps loyalty to a foreign power.
But President Bush himself has publicly brandished the Mexican flag. ThinkProgress has obtained a copy of a five-minute ad that the 2004 Bush campaign distributed to Hispanic supporters. In the ad, Bush can be seen waving a Mexican flag while embracing a young girl. (Watch the full ad HERE.)
What Novak and others fail to understand is that carrying the flag is not a sign of divided loyalty but a demonstration of an American value — understanding and appreciating immigrant culture.
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Does this mean he’ll be going to Mexico to be their President instead? Cool!
April 4th, 2006 at 4:52 pm…but that was for an election…
April 4th, 2006 at 4:54 pmwhat next? tell the american indians that they can’t have their separate sovereign identity?
oh and on the issue of dual citizenship. has robert novak revoked his israeli citizenship? talk about loyalty to only one nation.
April 4th, 2006 at 4:57 pmJeb Bush had a Mexican Flag in the background when he was running for Office In Florida.Jeb also did his speech in spanish.. Faiz could you dig up Jeb Bush’s speech about Latino’s and America? I think it would make for a great discussion.
April 4th, 2006 at 5:07 pmWhen deporting make it 11 million and one!
April 4th, 2006 at 5:12 pmAhh…videotape. I’m sure Scotty can explain this one away with, “The President was simply showing the young woman how to waive a flag. He has consistently stated that he has never wished to be Mexican.”
April 4th, 2006 at 5:12 pmIt’s legal when the President does it
April 4th, 2006 at 5:13 pm“It’s legal when the President does it Comment by BenDover”
Taking another one for the team? Is that what Bush told you last night, that it was legal when he ‘did’ it to you?
Republicans are such HYPOCRITES AND LOSERS.
April 4th, 2006 at 5:24 pmHe’s so unamerican when he does that.
I heard he was trying to trade Texas back to Mexico….for a bottle of Tequilla!
ps - Mexico, be very careful….Texas, it’s well, full of Texans! Be VERY careful.
April 4th, 2006 at 5:25 pmWait, he obviously didn’t realize that was the MEXICAN flag. He probably thought it was something from Taco Bell.
April 4th, 2006 at 5:27 pmben 7 - “It’s legal when the President does it”
April 4th, 2006 at 5:29 pmwhaaa??? ’splain that comment please…
do you insinuate it’s ILLEGAL for anyone else?
WiscoDuck,
Still thinkin of movin to Arizona? Yes we need you here, but fair warning. Here’s an article about how AZ is 49th in public education funding We are also 49th in funding for public mental health. The AZ legislature Republican Majority leader responded to the census beareau report by stating he didn’t think it was accurate. Typical Repuke response to a real fact. Assholes run the AZ legislature. Our Gov. is pretty good though. The list is long about how AZ is really low on funding things that are good for the people, and really high on the list of helping big business. They ignore our border problem with Mexico too. Oh yeah, and our child welfare system is 49th in funding also.
April 4th, 2006 at 5:29 pmwow, for truth - mccain has done a GREAT job for AZ!
April 4th, 2006 at 5:32 pmbe sure to spread that good news!
Immigration is practically the only issue I agree with Bush on. He is no xenophobe. He understands that immigrants do work that Americans wont do. Maybe its his unique perspective or just Karl Rove telling him how many potential Hispanic votes are out there. But he seems geniunily concerend about the plight of Mexicans.
April 4th, 2006 at 5:35 pmBen wrote”It’s legal when the President does it” (Comment #7).
A similar quote was attributed to Richard Nixon. He became a one-and-a-half term President as a result.
April 4th, 2006 at 5:36 pmBut he seems geniunily concerend about the plight of Mexicans.
Comment by Ryan — April 4, 2006 @ 5:35 pm
It could be because he has a Mexican-born sister in law, and an American-born nephew of Mexican ancestry.
This is also about the only area I find myself agreeing with Bush.
April 4th, 2006 at 5:38 pmBut he seems geniunily concerend about the plight of Mexicans.
Comment by Ryan — April 4, 2006 @ 5:35 pm
He wants to leave a legacy. It won’t be anything he’s attempted so far, so this seems like the next possible ‘project’. I only hope he doesn’t screw this up either. It’s a serious issue that needs serious reform.
I don’t hate the man. I think he frequently means well. I just don’t think he is competent or experienced enough to do an effective job.
April 4th, 2006 at 5:43 pm“immigrants do work that Americans wont do.” wow. ryan, i can’t believe YOU said such a thing … first time i’ve really disagreed with you… start here:
“The corporatist Republicans (”amnesty!”) are fighting with the racist Republicans (”fence!”), and it provides an opportunity for progressives to step forward with a clear solution to the immigration problem facing America.
Both the corporatists and the racists are fond of the mantra, “There are some jobs Americans won’t do.” It’s a lie.
Americans will do virtually any job if they’re paid a decent wage. This isn’t about immigration - it’s about economics. Industry and agriculture won’t collapse without illegal labor, but the middle class is being crushed by it.
April 4th, 2006 at 5:43 pm…
#17 It could be because he has a Mexican-born sister in law, and an American-born nephew of Mexican ancestry.
It that Georgy’s coke smuggler sister in law? Maybe I’m wrong, but I thought she was Columbian or some other South American native?
April 4th, 2006 at 5:44 pmThat is f’in TOO FUNNY
HA HA you racist scum…..YOUR BOY WAVING A MEXICAN FLAG ON American Soil!!!!
LMFAO
ROTF…..LMFAO
April 4th, 2006 at 5:46 pmI thought she was Columbian or some other South American native?
Comment by Jesus Christ God of WAR — April 4, 2006 @ 5:44 pm
Her first name is Columba and was born & grew up in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico.
I understand they met in Mexico while he was an exchange student in college.
Some GOP strategists get a kick out of talking how the US can, one day, have a president who will be 1) Hispanic 2) a Republican and 3) another George Bush. (George P. Bush, Jeb Bush’s son).
April 4th, 2006 at 5:49 pmCorrection: I should have said “I understand Columba and Jeb Bush met in Mexico while he was an exchange student in college.”
April 4th, 2006 at 5:53 pm#21 - OMFG! I’m LMFAO!!!
A guess the Bush Cabal is looking to cement it’s aristocratic control over all of the Americas.
April 4th, 2006 at 5:54 pmps - Mexico, be very careful….Texas, it’s well, full of Texans! Be VERY careful.
Comment by kindness
As native born texan, I found this very funny and true.
I am very liberal in most things, except gun control. My idea of gun control is learning to aim well.
Notice the vice prez doesnt aim so well, so is not a real texan.
I voted against Shrub as gov and as president, I am still amazed that the mindless dork ever got elected to anything.
From the lack of W stickers lately ( caught my neighbor taking his off yesterday ) I think (hope) the tide is turning against the repugs, even here in Texas.
I still have my sicker that has a pic of Shrub with “WTF?” on it. =)
Bush pandered to the mexican voters here, but as governer he never did a thing to help them or anyone else except for Big Business. too many people here were overdosed on the koolaid
April 4th, 2006 at 6:00 pmto all the wingnuts,foxnuts and the others trying to make something out of nothing,
“OPPS!!”…..
April 4th, 2006 at 6:02 pm“It’s legal when the president does it”
Geez, don’t you people even recognize a joke when you see one any more? Is this what years of righteous paranoia have done to us?
Lighten up.
April 4th, 2006 at 6:02 pmThroughout the Midwest, you will find many homes that will fly either a) the United Stats flag with the flag for Norway or Denmark underneath or b) exclusively Danish or Norwegian flags.
Granted these folks are not waving the flags in protest, but it seems hypocritical that these proud Danish/Norwegian-Americans are allowed to show their allegiances without retaliation, but Mexican-Americans are not.
April 4th, 2006 at 6:04 pmI personally agree with the conservative morons: protesting with flags like that really does seem anti american. Sorry, that is just the feeling I get. But it is their right really.
But in no way would I support the president: that is where we differ. I think it is a mistake to wave the flag no matter who does it, novaque would probably defend the president in some way, with some kind of circular logic.
R2K
April 4th, 2006 at 6:05 pmWhat Novak and others fail to understand is that carrying the flag is not a sign of divided loyalty but a demonstration of an American value — understanding and appreciating immigrant culture.
lobbying the Regime for and in the interests of nation/states or other entities against the security, or the stability, of the institutions of the People’s self-governance is, um, errrr, well, shall we say of a somewhat more dubious endeavor, n’est pas?
April 4th, 2006 at 6:08 pmBoy there are going to be some two faced sputering going on in the righty blogs about this article… hehehe… but but but! the back side of that flag was American!!! no no no wait… he had American Flag tatooes on the inside of his eyelids so it trumps the mexican flag!!! …. let them squeel.
April 4th, 2006 at 6:10 pmI don’t hate the man. I think he frequently means well.
Comment by unbelievable
Me neither, unbelievable, me being a rightwing redneck .
Except for the part of him that is an arrogant, smirky, punk. With a low IQ. And that part of him trying to walk and act like a Texas cowboy when eveyone knows he is really just an eastern rich kid from Yale. I also dislike the way he avoided Vietnam by using daddy’s influence to get himself into a Texas National Guard unit already overfilled with other rich kids. I also dislike the town drunk who became a born-again Christian at age 40 and now uses every opportunity to shove his superior views down the rest of our throats. I also dislike the way he shifts the blame for everything that goes wrong, but is the first for a photo op whenever it might help him in the polls. The way he flies halfway across the nation in Air Force One to throw out a baseball while complaining that the nation is too dependent on oil. I also dislike the way he wraps himself in the American flag at every opportunity and uses the military for backdrops in most of his speeches. He can’t say two sentences without stammering and stuttering, unless he is reading from a scripted speech.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think I hate the man, neither.
April 4th, 2006 at 6:12 pmand by the way:
April 4th, 2006 at 6:13 pmhas no one else ever seen or been in houses flying BOTH the Confederate Battle Flag and the Stars’N'Stripes???
seems t’me it’d be pretty hard to protest mexican-americans carrying the mexican flag if’n ya had the the Stars’N'Bars flying upside the “good, ol’ red/white/and/blue”…
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that’s not a flag…that’s one of georgie’s industrial-sized rolling papers…now that he’s easing up on the liquor and cocaine, he needs a little bud to help him relax.
April 4th, 2006 at 6:34 pmHas anyone checked the kerning on that “Mexican Flag”?
April 4th, 2006 at 6:37 pmCorrect me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think I hate the man, neither.
Comment by Joe Sixpack
I don’t hate the man. I think he frequently means well.
Comment by unbelievable
forgive me, but I do hate him and what he has done to this country and everything is trying to do to this country. I don’t think he has the compassion to mean well. IMHO
April 4th, 2006 at 6:41 pmAfter 9/11, a lot of people from ohter countries waved American flags to show support for the U.S. I don’t think they were pledging allegiance to our country, nor were they being disloyal to their own flag. Why should American’s waving a Mexican flag be considered as anything other then loyal American’s who are showing support for Mexicans?
April 4th, 2006 at 6:49 pmIn re: Ben — Guys, I think he meant “It’s legal when the President does it” as a joke. You know, how everything is acceptable to the wingnuts when BushCo does it? Get it? Poor Ben — really is taking one for the team now.
April 4th, 2006 at 6:55 pmDoes flying the Confederate Flag “signal divided loyalty?”
April 4th, 2006 at 7:00 pmummm, i don’t think he actually knew it was a mexican flag—–
the dumb bastard probably thought it was a slurpie.
peace and love,
mr de gama
April 4th, 2006 at 7:00 pmwow, joe sixpack, for a man of, usually, few words, you sure let it out on that one! good for you! you ok? winded? i gotta agree with all of it too…
April 4th, 2006 at 7:04 pm#12
Wow- Not good. I wonder if those numbers are reflective of the treatment the Native American population receives there? That would make those numbers make sense.
Isn’t Phoenix pretty progressive though?
April 4th, 2006 at 7:06 pmalso, i have a feeling that those danish flags could be the equivelant of “the bird” aiimed at the muslims who were offended by those cartoons recently - or have they been there forever? …as for the confederate flags, same thing, aimed at those offended by racism, flown defiantly, refusing to give up that civil war thing…
April 4th, 2006 at 7:14 pmjust my opinion…
Why do we insist that this is a game played, with honor and rules, between two sides who have respect for each other? Why the assumption that Novak was being less than what he clearly was?
When brown people hold up another flag, they’re traitors. When bush does, it’s just good politics.
April 4th, 2006 at 7:26 pmI say we quarantine all illegals for 1 year. In that time we can decide if we want them to stay.
April 4th, 2006 at 7:35 pmCan Manzanar hold 11 million people?
Remember all those American flags brandished after 9-11? If ya noticed- most were made in Mexico (or China).
April 4th, 2006 at 7:39 pmWisco - No, Phoenix is a hugely right-wing hellhole. It’s Tucson that’s blue.
April 4th, 2006 at 7:51 pmIf you consider it a crime to burn Old Glory, then these flags have some significance. I would no more die for our flag than I would a hundred dollar bill: both our just symbols of something.
But to some that see our nation’s flag as something more than a piece of fabric, they take this flag business seriously. They actually get upset when the see the TV news and someone somewhere is burning our flag or someone in effigee.
WiscoDuk has a great comment, and it is so true. Like many other things, those that need to profess their patriotism a lot are the ones that are least patriotic where it matters: knowledge of our government and history.
April 4th, 2006 at 7:55 pmLet’s round up all those folks who wore green on St. Patrick’s day.
April 4th, 2006 at 7:56 pmNo- they’ve been there forever. Western Wisco has a heavy Danish decent population. I believe most fly them to differentiate themselves from those of Norwegian decent- and vice versa. There’s nothing wrong with being proud of ones heritage.
Flying the “rebel†flag sometimes has other connotations though- as you said. BTW- It’s only the south that’s still fighting war. “Yankees†could care less.
April 4th, 2006 at 7:58 pmtrying to separate the suckers from their votes. If you think he supports American laborers, you’re dead wrong.
April 4th, 2006 at 7:59 pmTiparillo asked “Does flying the Confederate Flag signal divided loyalty?†(Comment #39)
In principle, it shouldn’t, because that’s like comparing apples with rutabagas. They’re both plant life, but different types. Mexico is an active nation, while the CSA has been defunct since 1865.
There’s a difference between displaying another country’s flag merely to celebrate one’s heritage vs. displaying another country’s flag to challenge America’s sovereignty on its home turf. Some of the Mexicans demonstrating in L.A. were not merely celebrating their heritage, but to challenge our sovereignty over our own country. Groups like LULAC, MALDEF, La Raza, and the Mechistas advocate, to varying degrees, detaching the Southwest from U.S. control and creating an Aztlan Republic. The worst is a group called Mexica-Movement, who want to deport all whites from North America. See it for yourself at their website:
April 4th, 2006 at 8:04 pmhttp://www.mexica-movement.org
Anchorage Activist,
Yeah, and there are movements in Hawaii, Alaska and most of the lower 48 to somehow take back some portion of indian lands. Since most of the mexicans are either part, or full indian, you can be sure that some number would love to make that happen. But if what you say is true, they’d be flying the flag of their ‘new republic’, and not mexico - which according to what you say is not where they would love to be. You sound like a retired conspiracy nut with too much time on their hands. Get a clue…
April 4th, 2006 at 8:17 pmTsk tsk tsk.
O what will they say about Pensacola?
April 4th, 2006 at 8:21 pmI’m going to have to split with a majority here on this whole issue. Bush’s guest worker program is another giveaway to corporate interests who rely on cheap labor. Bush’s insinuation that americans do not want to work shows how detached he is from reality and the common man. We need to protect our borders, enforce immigration law and put the interests of the american people before the interests of illegal immigrants. This does not mean I hate hispanics or do not appreciate how strong they value their culture, it simply means I am putting the interests of american workers first and foremost, who under 10 years of Clinton/Bush have seen depressed or declining wages, NAFTA, CAFTA and buiness over worker. Enough is enough, bring our troops home and let’s start focusing on the problems inside this country staring us in the face.
April 4th, 2006 at 8:31 pmRyan - one reason why there is no “Aztlan” flag may be due to the fact that the separatists can’t agree on what “Aztlan” should be. Some want just the U.S. Southwest, while others want to combine the Southwest and the Northern Mexican states into a hybrid.
Your point about Hawaiian and Alaskan Nativist movements is well taken and is precisely why we need to stand up to these Aztlan movements, although we don’t really have a significant Nativist movement in Alaska. We don’t want to empower any more separatist movements. The last separatist movement that got out of hand took 4 years and over 600,000 lives on both sides to put down. We refer to it as “The Civil War”.
April 4th, 2006 at 8:33 pm“When deporting make it 11 million and one!”
I’ll settle for just the one. Let the millions stay if the shrub gets uprooted.
Ed
April 4th, 2006 at 8:35 pmAs of Jan 2009, Bush will no longer be president, those who do not wish to continue the policies of the Bush doctrine will be well advised to push to the forefront someone who will bring us back to a realist foreign policy. Bush is no longer your problem, his legacy is.
April 4th, 2006 at 8:41 pmoh and on the issue of dual citizenship. has robert novak revoked his israeli citizenship? talk about loyalty to only one nation.
Probably when he converted to Christianity.
Oh, and in case you’ve never read Novak (and the late Roland Evans) over the last 3 decades, he’s anything but a friend of Israel. He is, and always has been, a major Arabist. I guess it’s that oil thing.
April 4th, 2006 at 8:51 pmWhat Faiz and others fail to understand is that carrying a Mexican flag (or an Italian flag, or a Polish flag . . .) to attract votes from legal U.S. residents is a whole lot different than waiving a Mexican flag to demand special treatment for criminals.
April 4th, 2006 at 8:55 pmIf Bush becomes president of Mexico, the power vacuum will inexorably suck Stephen Harper down from Canada to take his place, which frankly would not be much of an improvement for us. That said, Santa Claus would rule Canada (good), but there would be no Christmas (meh), unless the elves seized the means of jollification (hooray!).
April 4th, 2006 at 8:56 pm#55-
I couldn’t agree more.
April 4th, 2006 at 9:00 pmIt’s legal when the President does it
Comment by Ben — April 4, 2006 @ 5:13 pm
So are blow jobs, twit.
April 4th, 2006 at 9:39 pmThat is f’in TOO FUNNY
HA HA you racist scum…..YOUR BOY WAVING A MEXICAN FLAG ON American Soil!!!!
LMFAO
ROTF…..LMFAO
Comment by lib4
It’s not funny dumbass. It’s George commiserating with the Republican party’s newest voting block.
I know you’re a left wing fucktard so let me just say that neither one of us should be happy about this.
April 4th, 2006 at 9:45 pm“Immigration is practically the only issue I agree with Bush on. … He understands that immigrants do work that Americans wont do.â€
The reason that Americians won’t do the work is that they are low paying jobs with no benefits and often with poor working conditions.
Comment by Captain Video —
Almost correct. They are jobs Americans won’t do for the same money the Mexicans are willing to take. Americans filled those spots once but not for comparative wages.
The reason that they are low paying jobs with no benefits is because the firms can get illegal aliens to take them. If the illegal aliens were not there to take the jobs, the firms would have to pay a living wage and offer benefits to get American workers to take them.
Some jobs have NEVER had any benefits other than a steady fair paycheck. It’s called an entry position and I had more than one before school during school and after school. But I got paid in those days the prevailing wage for an entry position, not the wage paid to some wetback with no greater expectations other than a few bucks to send home and a cold beer at the end of the day.
The fact that American workers are perfectly willing to take tough, dirty jobs if the pay and benefits are good is shown by the fact that there are many Americans willing to work as coal miners, a dirty and dangerous job.
An American will work at damn near anything but he won’t work for Mexican pee-on wages and I’m with him in that regard.
Bush serves the economic interests of his corporate cronies, who want the illegal aliens to be let in to provide them with cheap labor. That is why the U.S. government has made no serious effort to enforce the immigration laws until public opinion on this issue has finally made it impossible to continue to ignore the problem.
Don’t delude yourself into thinking that Bush and conservatives are alone in fucking away our borders, language and culture for short term gains. The Filthy Left/Democratic Party are behind it 100% as well, union districts excluded of course.
April 4th, 2006 at 9:57 pmCorrect me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think I hate the man, neither.
Comment by Joe Sixpack
I don’t hate the man. I think he frequently means well.
Comment by unbelievable
forgive me, but I do hate him and what he has done to this country and everything is trying to do to this country. I don’t think he has the compassion to mean well. IMHO
Comment by Wayne — April 4, 2006 @ 6:41 pm
Hate is something that’s internal. I don’t see the good in hating. I watched my father hate everyone and everything different from him and he died at 59 after a 12 year battle with cancer.
I’m not saying I’m passive about Bush’s actions. I just won’t internalize them. I won’t let him do to me what he’s done to this country. But, that’s just my two cents. You’re certainly entitled to your own.
Though, I know we agree on what should happen as a result of his actions. After all, there are choices and consequences in life. And his choices have put us all in a very dire situation.
April 4th, 2006 at 10:02 pmRemember all those American flags brandished after 9-11? If ya noticed- most were made in Mexico (or China).
Comment by WiscoDuk — April 4, 2006 @ 7:39 pm
Good point!
April 4th, 2006 at 10:03 pm(I started on this before IRI’s posts) Busy on another project- but I’ll post it anyway
A rehash of something I posted a while back:
My company was involved in the recent construction of a local Super Wal-Mart. When the drywall arrived for the job it came in two enclosed trailers. One full of drywall. The other: half full of drywall- the other half full of Mexicans and mattresses. After the days work, the mattresses were unloaded onto the job and the workers literally slept in their work areas. All personnel were ordered by the general contractor to have no contact with the drywallers or face being booted off the job. This left little doubt that the workers were illegal. Nobody said anything out of fear for their own livelihoods.
I know for a fact that a union drywall contractors bid was lower than the bid won by this scum bag contractor. (The least he could have done was put his workers up in a hotel.) Don’t tell me drywall installation is a job Americans won’t do.
Illegal immigration has become a very sticky issue. I have mixed feelings myself. I don’t have the solution but in my experience- it is a problem.
April 4th, 2006 at 10:12 pm[…] George W. Bush on his 2004 presidential campaign: Posted: by Jason on Apr 4, 2006 at 6:50 pm Last modified: Apr 4, 2006 at 6:50 pm Filed: Main + Politics + Media + Los Angeles […]
April 4th, 2006 at 10:46 pmillegal aliens do jobs Americans refuse to do like HIJACK AIRLINERS AND FLY THEM INTO BUILDINGS
April 4th, 2006 at 11:00 pmBush is waving the Mexican flag because he and Vincente Fox just got it on again! Why does Bush hate Americans?
April 4th, 2006 at 11:10 pmDoesn’t that girl look a little underaged?
April 4th, 2006 at 11:28 pmillegal aliens do jobs Americans refuse to do like HIJACK AIRLINERS AND FLY THEM INTO BUILDINGS
Comment by bill tyler
Nice try but those guys had green cards, sudent visas or were on a pass to go to Disneyland. They weren’t illegal at all.
April 4th, 2006 at 11:42 pm[…] Conservatives have pushed the mantra that to wave the flag of another nation - particularly Mexico - is to be an agent of that nation (rather than what all right thinking Americans know as ethnic pride). Looks like Bush is playing for the other side. […]
April 4th, 2006 at 11:47 pmBush can move to Mexico and become their idiot president! We can then militarize the border and never let Dubya back into the US again > lol.
April 5th, 2006 at 12:24 amHOW SO UN-AMERICAN OF HIM! {/snark}
April 5th, 2006 at 12:40 am[…] If Bush being loyal to Israel didn’t upset you, maybe this will! […]
April 5th, 2006 at 1:02 am[…] But what I really find odd is Bush supporters decrying Americans waving the Mexican flag. Because Bush has waved it. I know I’ve seen it in the last election - and not just in this campaign ad. […]
April 5th, 2006 at 2:06 amIn the ad, Bush can be seen waving a Mexican flag while embracing a young girl.
http://thinkprogress.org/ 2006/ 04/ 04/ homeland-security-official-arrested/ #comments
Okay, I am not a nice person.
April 5th, 2006 at 4:44 amif you like it so much bushyboy, why not make permanent residence. they welcome you with open arms, has liberators. save em captain.
April 5th, 2006 at 9:55 amDon’t the Italians, the Irish, the Greeks, and many other people of foreign descent have occaisional parades throughout our country each year and carry their home country’s flags? We welcome them to do so, as we should. This is a land of immigrants many of whom love both their homeland and the United States. The fact that they are proud of their heritage does not mean they are not loyal to the United States.
When are we Democrats going to learn to market ourselves as effectively as the Republicans? Well, maybe to do what the Republicans do requires too much lying and deceit. By their very nature, Democrats are concerned for the greater good, not just their own prosperity, so their higher moral evolvement lessens their ability to get so down and dirty.
April 5th, 2006 at 10:26 amDoes anyone know where you can get a Dubai flag? Besides the White House, that is. I’m not a Bush Pioneer, so I won’t be able to get one there.
April 5th, 2006 at 11:16 amDon’t the Italians, the Irish, the Greeks, and many other people of foreign descent have occaisional parades throughout our country each year and carry their home country’s flags?
Comment by Russell J. Pape
Yes they do, on special occasions but apparently you can’t see the difference between AMERICANS waving and Irish flag during St Pat’s and MEXICANS waving the Mexican flag in AMERICA demanding equal rights to American citizens. Then on top of that some of them are DEMANDING that we give them back the SW & California territory that we fairly and squarely took from them in a war 150 years ago. Now, see the difference?
April 5th, 2006 at 2:42 pmBush sucks and so do beaners.
April 5th, 2006 at 3:03 pmif you like it so much bushyboy, why not make permanent residence. they welcome you with open arms, has liberators. save em captain.
Comment by bs — April 5, 2006 @ 9:55 am
Only Bush could make a bigger mess of Mexico than it already is :)
April 5th, 2006 at 7:00 pmThe flag bearers…
ThinkProgress posts a video clip showing President Bush waving the Mexican flag in a 2004 election commercial produced for Spanish language media……
April 6th, 2006 at 1:01 am[…] Watch the video. (hat tip iSteve). […]
April 6th, 2006 at 1:19 ammaybe he is thinking this is the flag of the next new state?
April 7th, 2006 at 1:50 amYou people are absurd. Real conservatives have been saying all along that Bush is a leftist and would love to sell out his people to Mexico in the name of corporate profits. This video just confirms that what we have been saying all along (and incidentally, is a favorite on the right wing circult). Get it straight, you commies — you and Bush are on the same side on this one, uniting to destroy America in the name of multiculturalism and corporate profits. As far as conservatives are concerned, Jorge Bush and his leftist, big spending, open borders agenda can go to hell.
Viva Tancredo!
April 7th, 2006 at 6:07 pm[…] http://thinkprogress.org/ 2006/ 04/ 04/ bush-waves-mexican-flag/ […]
April 8th, 2006 at 4:08 amI think we should deport him(Bush) along with the illegals.
April 9th, 2006 at 3:16 pmBoth the Democratic and Republican parties are selling out this country and literally turning it over to Mexico. I urge all conservative Republicans and moderate Democrats to consider the Constitution Party instead of maintaining blind, misguided loyalty to either the Democratic or Republican parties.
The Constitution Party is against illegal immigration and wants to put America first and protect Americans’ rights under the U.S. Constitution.
http://www.constitutionparty.com/
http://www.constitutionparty.com/party_platform.php
April 10th, 2006 at 2:16 am[…] And you might be interested to note that not everybody thinks carrying the Mexican flag is anti-American. In 2004, the Bush-Cheney campaign distributed and mailed a video to Hispanic voters which included a clip of Bush, as Texas governor, walking in San Antonio’s Mexican Independence Day parade while carrying and waving — yes, the Mexican flag. […]
April 11th, 2006 at 3:27 pmfour and 1/2 words:
FREE TRADE AREA of the AMERICAS
http://www.stoptheftaa.org or .com whichever
This soft-sell on granting no-contest immigration to Mexicans is NOT to help Mexicans. If our govt cared, we would not have allowed the IMF and World Bank to Economically RAPE Latin America. We would not be trying to kill Hugo Chavez for resisting these NGO banks, and the private banksters they front for.
That $4 bn loan Reagan gave to Mexico, and $40 bn from Clinton, never left NYC. Just transferred into accounts of Citigroup, etc.
FTAA is NAFTA on steroids … creating ONE BIG UNCONSTITUTIONAL FREE TRADE AREA out of the whole two continents, which makes and kills laws on THEIR whim, and are unelected — they established their power by “treaties” not laws.
ahhh Constitutional Law .. who needs it .. we have CNN and Fox Polls
April 13th, 2006 at 6:51 ammexicans fill our prisons, they like to kill people, and sell drugs, the same with the blacks, they need to go live in their own country, but no! Now there hording over here in the u.s.a, free everything for them, im sick of it! there all on welfare, welfare gives them no drug tests, they come to the welfare offices all doped up, and off they go with our hard working dollars. im sick of the ratty bastards. there rats! they ruined our country, they also get free college education, my kid cant, because we struggled to get good paying jobs, the whites are working their asses off, and our tax dollars go to help the hispanics and blacks, my grandfather died for this country, what do we get, no breaks for the white hard working people. it makes me sick! and why is mexican and french a language our kids have to have learned to go to college? they need to learn english before they come here!i am so sick of being made to wipe there you know whats, if they want to come here, they should have to get to the top like the rest of us! they screwed up their country, now they rule ours! im sick about it!
April 21st, 2006 at 1:07 pmWhy do the Mexican/Latinos think it will be any different this time.
May 5th, 2006 at 8:40 amAs every other nation that crossed us found.
America is slow to anger but swift to kick your ignorant asses light years back into the 3rd world.
I call on every RED BLOODED AMERICAN to meet me and my posse
May 5th, 2006 at 9:06 amat our southern border to help build and maintain our “Liberty Fence”.
We answered the call to the first and second world wars and this will be no different.
Again the peaceful people of America are called on to save the world from the lies and deceit of fascist dictators and their minnions.
Mexico is and always will be corrupt and unable to provide for itself
and anyone inside our borders who feels a dichotomy of loyalty is ignorant and should be
held accountable.
If the 20 million had just one brain they would see that the Mexican government has no answers to their struggles so why else would they be here.
Leave it the “white people” again to save them from their own ignorance.
Our ellected officials that speak of “reconquista” are guilty of treason and should be given swift American justice for this reason:
The Mexican people nor their corrupt government has an answer for
any of their social, economic, spiritual, or political well being.
I will not allow the struggles of my Irish/Native American ancestors to
be ignored so that corrupted and misguided followers should enjoy the
fruits of their sacrifices.
The American Southwest was won with bloodshed and it shall not be given away.
[…] And you might be interested to note that not everybody thinks carrying the Mexican flag is anti-American. In 2004, the Bush-Cheney campaign distributed and mailed a video to Hispanic voters which included a clip of Bush, as Texas governor, walking in San Antonio?s Mexican Independence Day parade while carrying and waving — yes, the Mexican flag. […]
May 10th, 2006 at 5:10 pmim proud of pres. bush for doing what he is doing, but maybe he shouldnt be all for the mexicans scince they are using the taxpayers money.
May 16th, 2006 at 9:13 ami take that back. i agree with #101 (ritchard night.) but sorry, i cant meet you anywere, im only 13 years old!
May 16th, 2006 at 9:16 am#95, you are a jerk for thinking that about our president! you had better respect him! just because he messes up a little bit, doesnt mean that you have the right to just speak badly about him thinking that he wont find out! think of it this way. if an angry mob was surrounding you about to stone you because you had sinned, and they had sinned more than you had. then some man comes by and says, “why are you stoneing this man?” and they say,”sir, this man has sinned!” jesus said, “well let the first one who has commited no sin cast the first stone!” notice that everyone in that mob leaves, accept for jesus. GOD says in romans 3:23, “for ALL have sinned and fallen short for the glory of GOD.” that means that no one deserves HIS glory, only those who have not sinned, wich is JESUS. so my point is that, so what if he messes up a little bit. hes not like Bill Clinton who would lie about pretty much everything, is he?! i would say not. so, come to your sences and know whos right and whos wrong. because im right ane your wrong! understand that, JReid! because this is a 13 year old, preaching this to an adult! and beleive me, its all true! dont believe me? read the BIBLE, theres your truth for you. i go to cleirview foursquare church by the way, if you ever want to come. its in snohomish,WA.
May 16th, 2006 at 9:31 amoh, and by the way, im not on Richard Knights side! im on Jesus’ side! thats what side all of you guys should be on.
May 16th, 2006 at 9:33 amIf President Bush is goin to not allow mexicans then he should also not allow the Chinese,Russian,African etc. in the U.S. either.
May 16th, 2006 at 12:50 pmI’m a lifelong Republican, but believe President George W. Bush should be impeached for his lack of border protection.
September 20th, 2006 at 6:56 pmFor more ’spanics antics, visit http://www.newnation.org
November 15th, 2006 at 8:58 pm