UPDATE: The National Anthem At Bush’s First Inaugural
UPDATE: The National Anthem At Bush’s First Inaugural
UPDATE: Contemporaneous media accounts (see here for example) report that Secada was singing “America the Beautiful,†not the national anthem. The story from Cox News below, reporting that Secada sang the national anthem in Spanish, appears to be in error.
On Friday, President Bush blasted the idea of singing the Star Spangled Banner in Spanish. But Bush’s highly-scripted 2001 inaugural ceremony actually featured a rendition of the national anthem sung in Spanish by Jon Secada. From Cox News Service, 1/18/01:
The opening ceremony reflected that sentiment. A racially diverse string of famous and once famous performers entertained Bush, soon-to-be First Lady Laura Bush, Vice President-elect Richard B. Cheney and his wife, Lynne, who watched on stage from a special viewing area.
Pop star Jon Secada sang the national anthem in English and Spanish.
Apparently, Secada singing the anthem in Spanish was a regular feature of the Bush campaign. From the 8/3/00 Miami Herald:
The nominee, his wife Laura, erstwhile rival John McCain and his wife Cindy joined Bush on a platform where children sang the national anthem – in “Spanglish,” Secada explained.
This morning, ThinkProgress revealed that, according to Kevin Phillip’s book American Dynasty, Bush himself sang the national anthem in Spanish. Looks like Bush’s conviction that “the national anthem ought to be sung in English” was something he acquired very recently.
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and this is the man with the ‘nuke’ button……’Laura, now which one of the buttons gets me a drink, and which one launches a nuke?’
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:09 pmHow do you say “death by a thousand cuts” in Spanish?
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:09 pmThis is a terribly amusing zinger. Good job, you all!
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:10 pmBUSH: “Dayum this Internet!
I sung it, but I didn’t meant it!
I sang it in American in my heart!
Yeah, that’s it!
There’s an old saying in Tennessee; I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee that says ‘Fool me once… shame on… shame on you.’ *gesture with hand in the air* ‘If fool me can’t get fooled again!’ ”
BUSH IS AN IDIOT!
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:12 pmMaybe I should add his bilingual abilities to the Presidential Trivia Quiz. To learn of his other accomplishments and talents just click on Clyde below.
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:13 pmHypocrisy…
…a “conservative” tradition since…
…Adam gave the rib for Eve…
…then started dragging her around by her hair…
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:13 pmWOW, that was quick!
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:14 pmThere is a god, and apparently it’s not a white hairy male Republican!!!!!!!!!!!
#2 “Muerte por mil cortes”, a famed chinese sentence :)
BTW, the thousand cut deat would not be considered even torture by Alberto Gonzalez, because is based in small and superficial cuts whose pain doesn’t match the one of a “severe organ failure”. Until death, due to blood losing…
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:16 pmThere is a god, and apparently it’s not a white hairy male Republican!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by agua fiero — May 2, 2006 @ 3:14 pm
Now that’s funny!
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:16 pmHey…
GOOD NEWS…
A thousand Iraqi soldiers graduated from military training…
HILARIOUS NEWS…
They refused to serve outside their home areas…
Iraq Soliers Refuse to Serve
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:17 pmI’m really starting to think all those “flip-flop” signs and chants at the NRC were a Bush slogan.
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:18 pmThere is a god, and apparently it’s not a white hairy male Republican!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by agua fiero
Yes there is an He’s not a short fat Meskin either.
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:18 pmSeems that Bush’s politics of convenience always find a way of becoming inconvenient….
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:20 pmThe Rush spin preview -
(1) The pResident (Chimp), only mouthed the words in spanish He didn’t actually sing. So wrong again liberals.
(2) He was being polite. He didn’t mean it.
(3) It was not the Decider. It was the impersonator.
(4) That information is now classified.
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:20 pm#12 In fact, she’s a woman and is from Canada. See the movie “Dogma”.
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:21 pmGet it before it’s yanked: The White House website.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/05/images/20010518-7.html
And they’ve got their hands over their hearts, my friends, obviously recognizing their duty to accept the power of this anthem in any language.
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:21 pmIt might be… It could be… It is! A HOME RUN!
SLAMMED out of the park, Think P!
:applause:
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:22 pm“thats one hell of a nurse”
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:22 pmI suggest that this picture be forwarded to Homeland Security and INS and all those identified in the picture be deported.
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:27 pmI am amazed that A.G. Gonzales let this one slip thru the legal department, perhaps are there some honest Patriots in the white house after all.
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:27 pmMaybe Alberto was preoccupied, reviewing lil’ king Dubious’ drunk driving court appearance records, you know, the case that got him where he is today……
Perhaps looking for a way to extricate himself from all the tangled webs before he’s pulled down the spider hole with Karl and George and Dick and Donald and Condi and……………………………
#20 Including the Prez with the hand at heart, as if he was hearing the Official ™ USA Anthem?
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:28 pmBush can claim he was sooooo wasted during the inauguration, he couldn’t recall there was the US anthem sung in Spanish, with all those drinks he took he just believed it was some salsa singer or something
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:29 pmYes there is an He’s not a short fat Meskin either.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 2, 2006 @ 3:18 pm
Then what? This I have got to hear…
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:31 pmComic in honor of the occasion:
http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/The_Witch/348535
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:31 pmComic in honor of the occasion:
http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/The_Witch/348535
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:31 pm#5 It’s hypocracy
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:32 pmUsing the suffix for “form of government”
Thanks #16, I’ll check it out!
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:32 pmActually at the moment god seems to be this Bullock’s oriole who has learned to drink nectar from my hummingbird feeder……..
Speaking of elections and inaugurations…
In this hotbed of Republicanism in Northeast Tennessee, our local city paper has a poll today asking respondants which party they plan to vote for in the upcoming Congressional election.
Mind you, they so far only have 347 votes, but 60% selected the Democratic party.
The tide is turning, even if a little at a time.
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:32 pm#6 I mean!
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:32 pmBush Was For the Spanish Anthem, Before He Was Against It…
President Bush was for it, before he was against it. I guess now that he’s not running for re-election, Jon Secada will not be getting any more phone calls.
……
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:33 pmI suggest that this picture be forwarded to Homeland Security and INS and all those identified in the picture be deported.
Comment by Outraged — May 2, 2006 @ 3:27 pm
Especially Bush.
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:33 pmNow, lets see which media outlets carry this!
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:34 pmJust brilliant – as usual.
billjpa
Absolute stupidity. You’d think he would remember. But just because he remembers something doesn’t mean he knows how to process it. He just isn’t smart enough to realize that it is a contradiction.
And we trust this guy to make decisions about the future of America?
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:35 pmEnglish – a “acquired deficiency” of Bush’s
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:36 pmIRI, I too must hear what “HE” looks like. Waiting…
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:36 pmI accept that God is an individual perception.
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:38 pmI’m guessing that for IRI, it’s the little fanged faces he carves on the bullets for the sniper rifle he told us about that hangs in his truck cab.
If such are not simply products of his fevered dementia.
#34 Of course he remembers. They all remember. They just don’t care – current policy for current motives is all that matters. I suppose if you’re Bush, at this point with all the things you’ve done (or not done) does it really matter if you keep any of your promises or remain consistent on any issue?
“I’m a decider. And I’m never a better decider than when I decide to redecide my decisions.”
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:41 pmi blame bill clinton for it… i don’t know why i do, but, just give me a minute to think of a reason… oh, i forgot i don’t NEED a reason:
BILL CLINTON IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM BEING SUNG IN SPANISH!
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:48 pmOooooo…
That was deep Drew!!!
So the decider, decided to redecide his decision that he decided was the wrong decision when he decided it?
There’s an old saying in Tennessee; I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee that says ‘Fool me once… shame on… shame on you.’ *gesture with hand in the air* ‘If fool me can’t get fooled again!’ â€
BUSH IS AN IDIOT!
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:50 pmactually, equally to blame is jimmy carter.
JIMMY CARTER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM BEING SUNG IN SPANISH!
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:51 pmSo as a tactic to distract the national debate from the fact that this is the worst president ever, this whole National-Anthem-in-English thing is working great, huh?
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:51 pmHmm. http://www.whitehouse.gov/espanol/index.es.html
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:52 pmI’m sure it’s apparent to the lil’ feller, whether he remembers or not, that in light of recent events, he no longer has the respect of the Hispanic community in America.
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:53 pmAt this stage of his losing game, all he has left is the ignorant, intolerant, greedy and ill-educated 23% of Americans that still maintain any show of support for him.
(The 10% which would make up the balance of his current approval rating, is, of course, the corporate world owners of Dubious the Decider.)
That was soooooo funny!
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:57 pmIt’s not just about it being sung in Spanish, it is that it was rewritten in Spanish in a “different” way.
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:58 pmThis, of course, happened pre-9/11.
As we all know, 9/11 changed everything.
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:00 pmIn Bush’s defense, maybe he didn’t recognize the tune.
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:02 pm[...] To top it all off, the anthem was even sung in Spanish at the first Bush Inaugural. Pop star Jon Secada sang a dual language version at the party and on the campaign trail and at least once was joined by the president and none other than “maverick” Senator John McCain in singing this “Spanglish” version. [...]
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:03 pm#46: It’s not just about it being hypocritical, it is that the Repugs have rewritten government in a “new” way: That’s why we now have a hypocracy
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:08 pm#48,
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:09 pmHe probably doesn’t even reconize the English version. He probably thinks thinks its just a stupid song just like the Constitution is just a stupid piece of paper.
So…Jon Secada hates America? This is all getting so confusing.
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:09 pmI don’t know if that photo is an appropriate accompaniment. It wasn’t taken at the inauguration, but at the Cuban Independence Day celebration. Could be viewed as somewhat misleading.
Dittoheads everywhere will be pointing that out at high volume.
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:15 pmIn Bush’s defense, maybe he didn’t recognize the tune.
Comment by darrelplant — May 2, 2006 @ 4:02 pm
Naw bush used to own a baseball team, I am sure it would spark a memory that the tune sounded similar to the song played before every game.
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:16 pm#51, #48:
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:17 pmI grew up in Texas; we always ridiculed the song, as in ” oh say can you see, any bedbugs on me”…I’m sure Bush came up with nastier words. Songs aren’t sacred, Constitutions and Democratic ideals are.
Seemingly, it appears many believe that Mexicans should not to be allowed any celebration of their heritage…we reserve that right for the Irish on St. Patrick’s and the Italians on Columbus Day to name a couple. The irony is that they are being criticized for wanting to sing a song celebrating the U.S., yea that’s just not acceptable.
Those who think that race has nothing to do with the immigration isue might want to take another look.
more observations here:
http://www.thoughttheater.com
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:17 pmBush always thought the National Anthem began with the words, “Jose, can you see . . . ?” anyway.
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:18 pm[...] …and here: Think Progress » National Anthem Sung In Spanish At First Bush Inaugural [...]
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:20 pmBush thinks the National Anthem ought to be sung in English, but Bush’s English is so poor that he thought he’d try Spanish.
Really, if he thinks people in America need to learn English he needs to start with the Decider in the Mirror.
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:23 pmThe real issue is that they want to cater to the huge ignorant base by using xenophobia as weapon. Saying that you can’t sing a song in another language is like saying you can’t speak another language. It is just a song. With a lot of simbolic meaning, but just a song.
They are desperate. I am enjoying this so much!
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:24 pmOkay, here are my feelings on the American national anthem:
Sing it in English. It isn’t like it should be a major thing in anyone’s life, it isn’t even a very good song (not as bad as South Africa’s because at least it is all one song in one language, but no where near as good as the Irish Rugby song) but English is the official language of the USA, and frankly an anthem is a warcry, it just doesn’t work if you can’t at least reach a consensus on the words.
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:27 pm[...] Think Progress [...]
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:29 pmHey, y’all know that W can’t “remember” anything. Maybe he thought it was being sung in German?
It’s sad to think that he couldn’t get anbody better to sing it than “Latin pop star” (?) Jose Cuevos or whomever.
http://www.lcoliberal.blogspot.com
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:31 pmLewinsky 2.0 : GOP version
Right now on LCL
Will someone please give this man a bag of pretzels to eat please?
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:31 pm[...] Whoops-a-daisy. It seems that despite all of Bush’s clamoring that the anthem should be in English, he had it sung in Spanish for his 2001 inauguration. [...]
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:35 pmWhat everybody fails to understand is that the President meant it’s OK to sing the National Anthem in Cuban, but not OK to sing it in Mexican.
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:38 pmHear hear for #59!!!!!
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:38 pmIt was all just to much for junior to get a handle on back in New England, so much easier down there at the used car lot where he could spit and say ain’t and PARTY, man, PARTEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
What’s really pathetic is that huge news organizations, with access to not only the internet but such things as Nexus/Lexus and other for-pay data bases, did not find this information. Or, worse, found it and ignored it.
Hey, it’s one thing for BushBoy to not remember his own past, but derelection of duty for news organizations to also forget–or ignore.
But, it’s what they do. See coverage of Colbert’s bit during WHCA dinner last Saturday. And, damn, man, they were f’in’ there! But no coverage. What’s with that, MCM*?
My local public radio WNYC) did a segment on it this morning with some Colbert audio. Comments ranged from the about time someone spoke truth to power to it wasn’t “funny” to how rude! British woman said this would not even be unusual over there.
*Mainstream Corporate Media
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:40 pm#61
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:40 pmActually Bruce, English is not the official language. Neither is Spansish, German, or French, or Portugese. The fact is that we do not have an official language, nor have we ever had one. Songs are translated and revised all the time, so I don’t get the problem with translating and revising the national anthem if you’re playing it on a Spansish radio station.
Bush is a Mexican government agent apparently, because everything he does relating to Mexico hurts our nation but helps them! He does NOT have the balls to tell President Fox that he must employ his own population and NOT the United States! Dubya Dunce Decider refuses to secure the Mexican border, so around 7 to 8 million illegals have crossed into the U.S. since he became president in January 2001! That means over one million a year pouring into the U.S. under Bush and the reason why the economy is collapsing and wages dropping! Bush must resign or be impeached, or the entire Congress must resign instead!
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:41 pmEarlier, I said this is a bogus issue, meaning the issue of what language the anthem should be sung in, not the issue of Bush/Rove reacting with absolutely no regard for the facts and being caught looking like idiots. Now, I think that the high comedy of these revelations outweighs the relevance of the issue.
What’s next– BUSH HAS COLLECTION OF NATIONAL ANTHEM RECORDINGS IN SPANISH?
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:42 pmPlease forward this to Lou Dobbs.
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:43 pmIt’s really no wonder junior says something one day and contradicts it two days later.
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:45 pmA chimp with his IQ can’t remember what happened 10 minutes ago.
Pretty soon, his dumb ass will be planning a nuke-u-lar attack on Blair.
He’ll be like . . . . Tony who?
And here I thought it was Pres. Bush mis-understanding the words of the song. He thought they were singing to a Mexican immigrant named “Jose”. (Pronounced “Ho-say”)
You know, “Jose, can you see. . . . . ”
OK, that was a really silly joke, but I’m busy at work and it was the best joke I could come up with.
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:45 pmWhat a damn fool and embarressment to this country. This man should not be allowed within 50 miles of the White House, and heavens to mergatroid, certainly not as president.
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:46 pmUnfortunately, Cox is not correct. Contemporaneous reports from other news services (including a full transcript from CNN) show that Jon Secada sang “America the Beautiful,” not the National Anthem. He has sung the Anthem on many occasions, including the World Serise, Cuban Independence Day at the White House , and Jeb Bush’s inauguration.
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/inauoc.html
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:46 pmhttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/18/ip.00.html
ok – great – you found some video!
i just came in from mowing – in 2 hours this is the latest on TP ?!?
how about john bolton LYING this morning to waxman, kucinich and others in congress!
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:54 pmUNDER OATH!!!
GWB does it again! Now we wait for the excuses to roll in, the ‘blame’ to be placed, the subject to be changed. They will have to get nasty on this one, too much to just dismiss out of hand. Darn it! ;)
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:57 pmMaybe Senator Lamar Alexander can amend his resolution about the singing of the anthem should be in English to censuring President Bush for singing it in Spanish…
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:00 pmNow, I think that the high comedy of these revelations outweighs the relevance of the issue.
Welcome to ‘Reality’ of the masses, or that what we are supposed to perceive as reality
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:08 pmAnd now it’s…
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:14 pmSpringtime for Hitler and Germany
Deutschland is happy and gay!
We’re marching to a faster pace
Look out, here comes the master race!
Springtime for Hitler and Germany
Rhineland’s a fine land once more!
.
Yeah, well if it wasn’t for Bush you’d all be singing in Iraqi-nese right now.
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:17 pmthis may be a repeat – i only got to 17 when posting this at past 80 :
the photo on the white house site the #17, drew mankenzie posted
here is captioned: “Jon Secada sings the American National Anthem during Cuban Independence Day at the White House Friday, May 18.”
the photo above states it’s the inaugural…
picky picky picky…
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:19 pmHey I-Right_I – you’re comment is bullshit and you know it. This coming from an Air Force vet who has a brother currently serving in the mArines. Go back and hide your head in the Bushies asses, reality is evidently too harsh for you lot to handle.
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:24 pm#82 – Yeah, from all those WMD’s that we found after the Iraqi people begged us to come over there, and all the al-Quida members that we found in Saddam’s palace, right after we found Usama bin Laden in Afghanistan.
Believe whatever lies you want if it helps you speel at night, “Right between the I’s”.
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:26 pm# 82.
I-Right, you were Stephen Colbert before Stepen Colbert. You are as funny as funny can be.
-GSD
By the way, would Bush suppport a national anthem in Chimp sign language?
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:29 pmBush family has ties to Mexico’s elite going back over 50 years > Bush Senior’s first Oil venture was called Zapata Petroleum, named after an obscure Mexican bandit! Later his sons had several Oil ventures in Mexico too! Dubya’s ties to President Fox are extremely vulgar, and both of them should be forced to admit they cut a deal to leave the border wide open!
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:31 pm[...] Spanish shit hitting Texan fan: “National Anthem Sung In Spanish First Bush Inaugural”, “McClellan Asked About Bush Singing National Anthem In Spanish”, “Candidate Bush Would ‘Sing The Star-Spangled Banner in Spanish’ At Hispanic Festivals”, “FACT CHECK: U.S. Government Commissioned Spanish-Language ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ in 1919″, New on Swoon: “Hole In The Scene”, “What I Did In The 90’s” [...]
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:38 pmYeah, well if it wasn’t for Bush you’d all be singing in Iraqi-nese right now.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 2, 2006 @ 5:17 pm
UMM exactly how logistically would Saddam have invaded the US? He would
1.) need a large technically savvy Navy to even reach the shores of the united states, including multiple aircraft carriers to establish air superiority in order to land ground troops.
2.) need an army of millions with up to date weaponry to establish ground forces across the country. I suppose he could hold the coasts, and ignore the middle section of the country. Even still the manpower would be staggering.
3.) need an updated airforce to counter the US Air Force.
4.) a treasury in the billions to support the cost of such a war.
5.) to hold the rest of the world at bay while he invaded.
He couldn’t hold Kuwait for a year, do you really think he could invade the US? there is no way that saddam could pose that type of threat to the US. At least of you are going to spew nonsense, make sure it is semi-beleivable nonsense.
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:39 pmchange national Anthem to
America America über alles,
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:42 pmÃœber alles in der Welt,
Wenn es stets zu Schutz und Trutze
Brüderlich zusammenhält,
Von der Maas bis an die Memel,
Von der Etsch bis an den Belt -
America America über alles,
Ãœber alles in der Welt. :|
Don’t shoot the messenger but…
Every link I have found for the 2001 inauguration schedule lists Jon Secada as singing “America the Beautiful” and one even lists Christian singer Sandi Patty as having sung the national anthem.
I despise Bush, and his facist regime, as much as the next guy but are we sure the “inauguration day” story is true? I have no doubt that Jon Secada sang the song at the White house especially since it is clearly shown on the white house web page…
but the photo is captioned as…
“Jon Secada sings the American National Anthem during Cuban Independence Day at the White House Friday, May 18.”
Does anyone have a sure link to the inauguration schedule/program that clearly states that he sang the anthem?
We don’t want to be accused of swiftboating Bush. The fact that it happened at all is hypocritical enough but if our facts are wrong we lose credibility.
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:43 pmYeah, well if it wasn’t for Bush you’d all be singing in Iraqi-nese right now.
Comment by I-RIGHT-I — May 2, 2006 @ 5:17 pm
You meant farci, right?
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:45 pmwell shoot = that’s what i get for posting before reading them all…
concerning the photo caption confusion:
#53 -Dittoheads everywhere will be pointing that out at high volume.
Comment by MANIMAL!, Deciding — May 2, 2006 @ 4:15 pm
i just want it known, vehemently, I AM NO DITTOHEAD…
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:51 pmjust a truth seeker…
No one expected the Spanish Inquisition!
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:57 pmRush Talking Point #1 “children sang the national anthem – in “Spanglish,†Secada explained.”
“It was SPANGLISH! Wrong again, why do you hate America!”
This whole presidency is built on no one having a memory longer than 1 or 2 days. Good job TP!
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:05 pm#82- Is that because GWB would have just sat there, doing nothing, while Saddam invaded the U.S.? You sure have an odd way of showing your support of YOUR President. A ‘Freudian’ slip, perhaps?
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:05 pm“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain….”
“Nothing to see here, move along, move along….”
Cheers,
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:09 pmEmilio Zapata was NOT an obscure Mexican bandit, he was a hero of the Mexican Revolution! Ironic name for a Bush company, since he represents empowering the downtrodden little guy & was an anti-fascist.
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:12 pmmr bush has become quite the music critic as of late. national anthem in english only?? i just cant wait to here how he critiques neil youngs new album
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:13 pmI was for singing it before I was against it…….
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:15 pmSeems I am remembering that the English language has its roots in the ‘Romance Languages’ ?
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:36 pmAnyone welcome to set me straight if I’m in error here….
Speaking of Rome, can anyone remember ( we’re talking the mid 60’s here) the Mad Magazine cartoon lampoon of Americans having become as those cone shaped punching bags, (you know, the ones with sand in the bottom) as the lean mean and hungry barbarians from the east overwhelm the U.S.
Appears that the present day Empire of Greed is beset to the east, west and south……. not to worried am I about our neighbors to the north, they will simply melt away into the woods and pick us off slowly, just like in Iraq…… instead of roadside bombs we’ll have to look out for streamside deadfalls………
tongue in cheek there, officer mountie, sir………….
Oh do I wish the DNC would hire me to script commercials for them. There are so many great things you could do, but no one with the balls to actually put them on the air.
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:36 pmTo # 82 and #92
82 What is in your pipe? Did you find Georgie Boy’s stash? Or, Trash Rimjob’s? Be careful or you will urinating in a cup too.
92 Farsi is the language of Iran not Iraq. Farsi is sometimes called Persian. Iraqi speak Arabic.
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:44 pm“The Star-Spangled-Mangled Banner”
Oh Bush can you see … the corruption in thee…
With broad lies and sound bites, and words wihout meaning…
Bush-farts bursting in air!
“Facts” that aren’t at all there! …
Blah-blah-blah…
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Give proof through Iraq, that Oil Profits are there…
How long will that star-spangled banner yet wave
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:57 pmO’er the land of The Greed, paid by Lives the The Brave? ”
“The Star-Spangled-Mangled Banner”
Oh Bush can you see … the corruption in thee…
With broad lies and sound bites, and words wihout meaning…
Bush-farts bursting in air!
“Facts” that aren’t at all there! …
Blah-blah-blah…
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Give proof through Iraq, that Oil Profits are there…
How long will that star-spangled banner yet wave
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:57 pmO’er the land of The Greed, paid by Lives the The Brave? “
There’s one problem with the “America the Beautiful” angel though. Why does everyone have their hand over their heart? That’s typically only done to the anthem.
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:01 pmPost 98 to the Mexican elite Emilio Zapata was a bandito! Bush Senior did not use his name for his Oil company to pay homage to him for being a leftist Revolutionary! He used the name to denote that his company would rob and steal for profits > perhaps Bush Senior failed to see the irony in choosing that name?
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:14 pm“There’s one problem with the “America the Beautiful†angel though. Why does everyone have their hand over their heart? That’s typically only done to the anthem.”
Because nobody knows which is which. One of them is played at baseball games. Aside from that, how often does this song ever come up? Let’s face it, our country’s theme songs suck.
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:26 pm[...] Yesterday: National Anthem sung in spanish at inauguration; Today: Bush says sing it in english! (Also see four spanish versions on the State Dept. site) [...]
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:33 pmThe leaders of Mexico for the past 40 or more years consider themselves to be pure Spaniards, not Mexicans { who are part Indian and part Spanish }, so an elite group who claim bloodlines closer to the royalty of Europe! The Mexican Revolution was betrayed because the wealthy elite own everything and control the nation again! The poor are told to go to the United States to find jobs, instead of finding decent employment in Mexica, which does NOT exist!
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:39 pm#101, you are in error. English is a Germanic rather than Romantic based language although it has a lot of Romantic contributions and influences.
I wonder what Bush’s sister-in-law has to say about all of this. Mrs. Jeb Bush is a Mexican American.
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:41 pmJeb Bush’s wife is Cuban-American > I do not know why they claim she is Mexican now?
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:43 pmPeople put their hands over their hearts for the National Anthem, not America the Beautiful.
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:46 pmJeb Bush’s wife is Cuban-American > I do not know why they claim she is Mexican now?
Comment by Jay Randal — May 2, 2006 @ 7:43 pm
Gov Jeb Bush’s wife is Mexican-born:
The First Lady was born in Leon-Guanajato, Mexico in 1953. She and Governor Bush met in Leon, Mexico in 1971 while he was teaching English as part of an exchange program sponsored by his school, Phillips Academy, Andover. They were married on February 23, 1974, in Austin, Texas. They have three children George, Noelle and Jebby and in 2004 they were blessed with the addition of a new daughter-in-law, Amanda, wife of George P.
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:53 pmColumba Bush, Florida’s First Lady
Junior is half hispanic.
May 2nd, 2006 at 8:00 pmHis daddy doesn’t know about Barbie & the gardener yet.
Hey #114
May 2nd, 2006 at 8:05 pmI hope Your amiga Columba has done a better job with Phoenix House than she did in her own house. And she is on the board of a drug program at Columbia Univ? Is her daughter one of their volunteers for a research program?
Well post 114 If that is true, I wonder why Jeb’s wife tells Cubans in Florida that she is one of them? Like all Bush family members they have murky dual past histories > one of Jeb’s boys was almost black in skin color as a child, which is not unusual for Cubans, but is strange for someone of Mexican heritage?!
May 2nd, 2006 at 8:07 pmThanks Zeke!
May 2nd, 2006 at 8:09 pmI wonder why Jeb’s wife tells Cubans in Florida that she is one of them? Like all Bush family members they have murky dual past histories
Comment by Jay Randal — May 2, 2006 @ 8:07 pm
Everytime I read about Gov Bush’s wife, it is always mentioned she was born in Mexico. I have never found a reference about her being Cuban-American. Do you have a link?
one of Jeb’s boys was almost black in skin color as a child, which is not unusual for Cubans, but is strange for someone of Mexican heritage?!
You actually made me look it up -both Jeb Jr. and George P are very dark, but definitely not black. More like dark Mexicans. Same for their sister, Noelle.
“Jebby” Bush Jr.
George P Bush
Noelle Bush
But, not to be left behind by the twins, they have also had run-ins with the law.
May 2nd, 2006 at 8:18 pmNels,
I have no clue what in the world you are talking about. Get a life…
May 2nd, 2006 at 8:20 pm[...] Yeah, apparently he only decided (he, of course, is the decider for the whole country) this recently. [...]
May 2nd, 2006 at 8:29 pmNice one IRI back in #12, that was sweet.
May 2nd, 2006 at 8:41 pmI think I figured it out. If you consider yourself above all accountability, it doesn’t matter what you said before, only what you say now. The decider can decide to ignore or reconstruct according to his wishes the past, present, Congress, the courts, the public — in fact, all reality.
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:01 pm[...] President Bush sure seems to have a short memory. Last Friday he came out publically against the national anthem being sung in spanish saying “one of the important things here is that we not lose our national soul” ,“I think the national anthem ought to be sung in English, and I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English and they ought to learn to sing the national anthem in English.” but 5 years ago he didn’t seem to have a problem with our anthem being sung in Spanish when he was courting the Spanish speaking vote. [...]
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:04 pmFolks, I thnk it is in our collective self-interest to hold back until we have all the facts lest we undermine our own credibility. In the meantime, if the dittoheads don’t attack maybe it is because they know the footage exists somewhere. We’d have to rely on bloggers or S Colbert’s research team to uncover it though as the MSM is DOA and has been for years.
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:07 pmPost 119 I used to live in Florida, now reside in Georgia, so I was in living in Florida at the time that Jeb Bush was first elected Gov. in 1998! He campaigned all over Florida claiming his wife was of Cuban heritage > perhaps her family lived in Mexico, but were originally from Cuba?
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:24 pmAs for Jeb’s sons > one was almost black as a child > not so as an adult now! Cuban heritage is Spanish mixed with African slaves! Mexican heritage is Spanish mixed with native Indian! Like I said the Bush family members have murky backgrounds which are changed to pander to different voting groups!
As for links about Jeb’s wife being Cuban > if there was any I am sure they are erased now?!
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:31 pmGreenboy at Needlenose makes a great point: what about Puerto Rico?
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:38 pmIf the update is correct and Secada sang “America the Beautiful,” why are the people in the picture standing with hands over hearts?
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:39 pmJohn Secada’s brother used to leave a six pack’s worth of Heineken bottles all over the beach in Santa Barbara every week. He and I did not get along.
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:40 pmTHE STORY APPEARS TO BE IN ERROR???
Wait a minute. If the story is in error, WHY ARE YOU STILL PUBLISHING IT HERE??
Just stick to the Kevin Phillips story, which appears not to be in error.
You really should take it down. We’re not going to beat these bastards by playing their kinds of games.
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:41 pmPost 129 > the pic on this thread shows everyone with their hand over their heart which means the anthem was sung by the Hispanic singer! Something is confusing about this story > I am sure that Bush operatives want this story buried, so confusion is best bet for them?!
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:05 pmYet another reason to abandon Capitalism: Your health…
Study: Americans sicker than English
Study finds more serious illness despite greater U.S. spending
CHICAGO (AP) — Middle-aged, white Americans are much sicker than their counterparts in England, startling new research shows, despite U.S. health care spending per person that’s more than double what England spends.
“At every point in the social hierarchy there is more illness in the United States than in England and the differences are really dramatic,” said study co-author Dr. Michael Marmot, an epidemiologist at University College London in England.
The study, appearing in Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association, adds context to the already-known fact that the United States spends more on health care than any other industrialized nation, yet trails in rankings of life expectancy.
Smoking rates are about the same on both sides of the pond. The English have a higher rate of heavy drinking, but a higher percentage of Americans are obese.
The researchers crunched numbers to create a hypothetical statistical world in which the English had American lifestyle risk factors, including being as fat as Americans. In that model, the researchers found Americans still would be sicker.
Only non-Hispanic whites were included in the study to eliminate the influence of racial disparities. The researchers looked only at people ages 55 through 64, and the average age of the samples was the same.
Americans reported twice the rate of diabetes compared to the English: 12.5 percent versus 6 percent. For high blood pressure, it was 42 percent for Americans versus 34 percent for the English; cancer showed up in 9.5 percent of Americans compared to 5.5 percent of English.
The upper crust in both countries was healthier than middle-class and low-income people in the same country. But richer Americans’ health status resembled the health of the low-income British.
Health experts have known the U.S. population is less healthy than that of other industrialized nations, according to several important measurements. U.S. life expectancy, for example, ranks behind that of about two dozen other countries, according to the World Health Organization.
Robert Blendon, a professor of health policy at the Harvard School of Public Health who was not involved in the study, said the stress of striving for the American dream may account for Americans’ lousy health.
“The opportunity to go both up and down the socioeconomic scale in America may create stress,” Blendon said. Americans don’t have a reliable government safety net like the English enjoy, Blendon said.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/05/02/sick.america.ap/index.html
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:10 pmOr the pic shows everyone taking the pledge of alligence > lol. Doubt the singer would do that in Spanish > lol.
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:15 pmBruce, Bruce, Bruce.
Where in the First Amendment does it say that free speech–so long as it’s in English–is protected?
So very un-American of you to suggest it.
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:47 pm[...] The National Anthem was sung in Spanish at the Bush’s First Inaugural: On Friday, President Bush blasted the idea of singing the Star Spangled Banner in Spanish. But Bush’s highly-scripted 2001 inaugural ceremony actually featured a rendition of the national anthem sung in Spanish by Jon Secada. From Cox News Service, 1/18/01: [...]
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:48 pm[...] The National Anthem was sung in Spanish at the Bush’s First Inaugural: On Friday, President Bush blasted the idea of singing the Star Spangled Banner in Spanish. But Bush’s highly-scripted 2001 inaugural ceremony actually featured a rendition of the national anthem sung in Spanish by Jon Secada. From Cox News Service, 1/18/01: [...]
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:48 pmAll together now…
FLIP FLOP FLIP FLOP FLIP FLOP FLIP FLOP FLIP FLOP!
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:22 pm[...] * On the lighter side of political idiocy-cum-demagogery, Think Progress catches President Bush in another very significant flip-flop. Seems he didn’t always object to Francis Scott Key en Espanol. Writer Kevin Phillips even says he warbled the translation himself once. Sounds like grounds for impeachment to me! [...]
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:32 pmHe campaigned all over Florida claiming his wife was of Cuban heritage > perhaps her family lived in Mexico, but were originally from Cuba?
Comment by Jay Randal — May 2, 2006 @ 9:24 pm
Actually, the more I look for information on Columba Bush’s background, the more I find references to her been born in Mexico, and how her family is originally from there. Take this, for example:
Married this month to Amanda Williams, who accompanied him on the Mexico trip, George P. Bush is the grandson of migrant worker Jose Maria Garnica, who separated from his wife and still lives in Mexico. But Bush said he did not have much contact with his maternal grandfather.
George P. Bush accepts criticism of some U.S. policy during Mexico campaign trip
George P Bush was campaigning in Mexico to get the expats’ vote. Again, the evidence seems to point to the fact that his mother’s family is from that country -not Cuba.
But if he claimed his wife was Cuban, well, I believe you might be on to something. Me thinks it would be fantastic if you could find the references. Not that I would be surprised to find out Gov Bush lied to get elected…
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:41 pmDid anyone read the update? 9 hours of blogging here at TP and they got the story all wrong. I’m happy for the above UPDATE. Can Anyone say oops in spanish?
May 2nd, 2006 at 11:59 pmIf this story is wrong, why is it still on the front page?
May 3rd, 2006 at 12:00 amSend this story to the archives already.
May 3rd, 2006 at 12:05 amgood to see the update and clarification…
May 3rd, 2006 at 12:31 amfrom past experience, i think it is best to leave the story up, with caveat…
enough posts point out the obvious and prove TPs honesty and fairness…
just sayin’…
[...] National Anthem Sung in Spanish At First Bush Inaugural: I say that basically nullifies the whole thing, and means we can put Gore in his rightful place. [...]
May 3rd, 2006 at 12:36 amThe principle behind Bush’s statements still show him to be hypocritical.
May 3rd, 2006 at 1:40 amThis all happened in 2000 and early 2001.
BUT 9/11 CHANGED EVERYTHING!!!
So you librul freaks got nuthin’!
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May 3rd, 2006 at 2:36 amBush no habla español. Él habla Spanglish — pero mal. ¡Él no es nuestro primer presidente bilingüe, sino que él es nuestro primer presidente BI-IGNORANTE!
May 3rd, 2006 at 3:19 amYou’re so phoney;out mowing? I’ve got your ditto-head nectar right here.
May 3rd, 2006 at 3:54 amSegmentis
Ahhh but you see, I am not a American, so I am perfectly allowed to be un-American if I want.
Look, I live in a country with 11 official languages, and trust me, it is a touch awkward at times. Keeping it down to 1, it makes communicating a whole lot easier.
Unbelievable:
Has anybody tried to tie any of this in with the pollution levels in America yet? Might be interesting to do a study along the lines of which areas have the worst smog and which areas have the most cancer sufferers.
May 3rd, 2006 at 6:11 amHas anybody tried to tie any of this in with the pollution levels in America yet? Might be interesting to do a study along the lines of which areas have the worst smog and which areas have the most cancer sufferers.
Comment by Bruce Gorton — May 3, 2006 @ 6:11 am
Not as far as I know… We’re all really too afraid of stuff that has a slim to none chance of happening (road rage, terrorism, one another), and not at all concerned with the fact that most of us will die from heart disease or cancer…
My father was diagnosed with cancer when I was 15. My grandmother (his mom) died from lung cancer shortly thereafter. Since high school I have paid attention to my health, and how to stay that way. Yet occasionally people like to tease me because I am vegan, don’t smoke and gave up a high paying job with much stress – the same folks who fear a small group of radical Islamic terrorists who’ve managed to kill fewer Americans than our own government. Doesn’t make sense to me.
So, I’m guessing we’ll not be able to answer your question any time soon… Although it’s quite valid. Guess it just doesn’t get higher television ratings that ‘headchoppers’
May 3rd, 2006 at 7:34 am~~~I don’t know so much about Carter ~~ But I think his Presidency suffered and then crashed from high domestic gas prices and problems in the Middle East ~~ ……..
~~Nixon spied on Americans ~~ perpetuated a useless conflict ~~~and became highly unethical with the politics vis-a-vis the Democrats leading to the Watergate break-in~~
~~~Seems Bush is like a mix of these two ~~ A Nixter ~~:)
May 3rd, 2006 at 8:06 amPicking up the health issues thread……
May 3rd, 2006 at 8:25 amNow the gov’mint is beginning the spread of scare tactics over the impending doom of bird flu………..
liberal morons, it wasn’t the national anthem. ha ha, fools…
May 3rd, 2006 at 8:43 am#156 Totally true. Bush is in this picture with the hand at heart because he is in love with Jon (Secada).
May 3rd, 2006 at 9:08 ami remember hearing a news story that health officials said the flu season wasn’t as bad this year, not as many cases as usual…
May 3rd, 2006 at 9:48 amthen a government study out earlier with warnings and procedure…
then i see there is a new movie out (tv?) about the bird flu pandemic…
made me wonder if rummy’s tamaflu stock was taking a hit…
besides the need to deflect attention from the corruption and greed…
[...] The Post also noted that a news story by Cox News Service which reported that the national anthem was sung “in English and Spanish” at Bush’s 2001 inaugural, cited by ThinkProgress yesterday, was incorrect. We updated our post below last night to reflect this information. [...]
May 3rd, 2006 at 9:57 am[...] The Post also noted that a news story by Cox News Service which reported that the national anthem was sung “in English and Spanish” at Bush’s 2001 inaugural, cited by ThinkProgress yesterday, was incorrect. We updated our post below last night to reflect this information. [...]
May 3rd, 2006 at 9:57 ami like the idea of posting those lyrics, as #148, but i don’t read spanish…
May 3rd, 2006 at 10:30 amwhy is the “chant” the only part in english? and, my, isn’t THAT message evil and subversive… (sarcasm, of course)…
if anyone can translate, put the 2 side-by-side, or direct to a link that does so , that would be most helpful…
[...] In related news, the president recently came out against a spanish version of the national anthem. I’m not really sure what it means to be “against” that, but many have since pointed out that Bush used a spanish national anthem many times during his campaign, and it was sung by the president himself. Of course, that was back in the days when Bush courted the latino vote and Rove dreamed of a “permanent GOP coalition” that included hispanics. Today, those dreams have been replaced by a desperate appeal to racism to retain the last remaining conservative base; and Rove just wants to stay out of jail. [...]
May 3rd, 2006 at 10:35 amYour all a bunch of morons who can’t get the story right and obviously don’t know the difference between “America the Beautiful” and “The National Anthem”. No wonder the Democrats have lost the house, senate and presidency and I predict you will lose again in November! Get the story right, in fact MAKE A RETRACTION! Secada sang “America the Beautiful” at Bush’s inauguaration.
May 3rd, 2006 at 11:53 am#161 If the links to both of them are posted, I’ll comment on the differences (not being myself as far as proficient in english as I wished).
But the one thing that nobody as said is that the metrics of lyrics of the song in english and spanish may differ a lot, and simply to make a translated lyric match with the original music would be hard. For example “spangled” hasn’t direct translation in spanish, and you must adapt the whole phrase, not only by vocabulary, but by musicality, too, because a lot of words have a different lenght and intonation. But I think that doing this doesn’t make it unpatriotic, but in the contrary, more patriotic, because there is people working hard to integrate in the USA, and learning a song that is almost a pledge of allegiance.
May 3rd, 2006 at 12:11 pm#6 I mean!
Comment by LookInward #30
LookInward,
Clever…
…point noted…
May 3rd, 2006 at 12:37 pmWill someone please give this man a bag of pretzels to eat please?
Comment by Iraqi Vet #64
Too late Iraqi Vet,
…that won’t work…
…I heard since that ‘err “incident”…
…his mumsy Barbara…
…crushes ‘em up before she lets him eat ‘em…
…she apparently got the idea from IRI’s mom…
May 3rd, 2006 at 12:42 pmSo he’s supposed to be singing America the Beautiful in that photo? Because everyone’s got their hands over their heart, which is for the Start Spangled Banner.
Anyway, I do speak spanish tho not hispanic, and the translation’s marvelous & ingenious (as someone recently pointed out, you can’t just translate it cos many phrases just don’t exist in the same way or in the same meter). Maybe i’ll get a copy and translate it exactly back so non speakers can see what’s involved…
Anyway needless to say, *I* think the spanish (and any other language) versions are tres cool…
–Red Blooded American
May 3rd, 2006 at 2:13 pmWith all the thieves in that room, the camera just caught a bunch of people checking to see if they still had their wallets
May 3rd, 2006 at 2:42 pmBush declassified the Spanish version, then Cheney leaked it to Secada.
May 5th, 2006 at 11:28 amRe. the update that Secada sang “America” and not the Star Spangled Banner in Spanish: methinks the update is specious because (a) no one places their hand over their heart for “America the beautiful”; and (b) no one has to/or normally stands for the singing of “America”. You do THOSE two things for the national anthem, however.
May 6th, 2006 at 2:50 amLeave it to the Bushies and the righties to even attempt to spin that one.
um…so y’all are cool with the mex’s were CHANGING THE LYRICS???
looks like a bunch of democratic fanboys on this thread
May 6th, 2006 at 9:56 am“Your all a bunch of morons…” blah blah blah.
At least most of us know the difference between “your” and “you’re.” Moron.
May 6th, 2006 at 9:53 pmOk well guess what the American National Anthem is a U.S. Copyright in spanish here in the USA so how do u like them apples. Ohh and by the way its registered through BMI so enjoy it because its here to stay, or better yet do you need me to spell it out for you in spanish as well.
BMI Work #3865322
May 7th, 2006 at 1:49 am
The national anthem in spanish is rediculous. It should be sung in English and only English. Would you like to hear puerto rico, dominican republic, mexico or any other latino courty’s anthem in English? Of course not. It’s the same deal. And if any of you think that the national anthem should be sung in Spanish, then just go find your fake green card and go back home to where you came from and leave the lawn care equipment that you road in on behind you.
May 7th, 2006 at 9:02 amBullyforyou: were you by chance educated (that means “lurned”) in one of those “No Youngun Left Behind” charter schools that the repugs have stuck the country with? You know, the ones where science equals the bible (that means “bahbul”).
Puerto Rico is part of the U.S, it’s not a “latino courty” (that means it’s “Murrican”, just like you). You might want to get a third grader from a normal school to help you write (that means “raht”) your messages for you, then you won’t mistake “road” for “rode” and look like a typical redneck right winger (that means “rot wanger”).
Gosh, I wonder how we ended up with such stupid leadership? Or how it is so easy to get the population (that means “Murricans”) to be distracted by this kind of hot button issue when we are experiencing the most corrupt, greedy, and ignorant leadership (Congress and Chimpresident) of our lifetimes? Something tells me your idea of research is listening to talk radio.
May 7th, 2006 at 9:56 pmumm… is it just me, or is the fact that secada sang “america the beautiful” in spanish at the 2001 inauguration in any way relevant to the question of whether he also sang the national anthem in spanish? sure, the CNN transcript cuts in with him (supposedly) singing one song, but the entire proceedings are not documented there.
would it really have been impossible for him to have sung more than one song?
and for all the folks referring to the photo, that’s not relevant either. the caption says it’s the anthem, but it also says it’s cuban independence day (and just why are we celebrating that foreign holiday at the WH anyway?). nor do we have any indication which language secada is singing in from a still pic.
as i read it, we still have one report that the anthem was sung in spanish out there, with no real info contra. surely the WH has a tape of the entire thing somewhere. if there’s no antema en espanol in there, they could release that instead of this “golly shucks i don’t remember that” routine.
May 8th, 2006 at 7:59 pmLets not forget that PRES. BILL CLINTON HAD OSAMA &LETHIMGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 9th, 2006 at 1:08 amWhat about all the legal immigrants from Eastern Europe, Asia, etc.? They are LEGAL immigrants and LEARNT english LEGALLY in a school or classroom. They did not have to take the easy way out and translate the AMERICAN NATIONAL ANTHEM into Spanish.
May 9th, 2006 at 2:32 pmi think there shouldnt be a national anthom in spanish! woooooooo!
May 9th, 2006 at 2:42 pmi think there shouldnt be a national anthom in spanish! woooooooo!
May 9th, 2006 at 2:42 pmi think there shouldnt be a national anthom in spanish! woooooooot!
May 9th, 2006 at 2:42 pmWE SHOULD BE ABLE TO SING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IN SPANISH BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE ARE SPANISH AND THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO SING IT IN SPANISH
May 9th, 2006 at 2:46 pmWe should be able to sing the national anthem in spanish because some people are spanish and they have a right to sing in spanish
May 9th, 2006 at 2:50 pmspanish is GAY
May 9th, 2006 at 2:51 pmspanish is GAY
May 9th, 2006 at 2:51 pmI hate mexicans they are taking over america it’s crazy a but george bushis a weirdo and is hairy
May 12th, 2006 at 11:29 amLet me think about the situation… I leave my home, travel to a foreign land where everyone speaks another language and have different customs. Now I ask them to learn my language, as opposed to me learning their’s. I ask them to change their anthem to my language. I ask them to let me live and thrive here illegally while they change their customs to suit me. Do you think they would let me take their wives and daughters if I demanded nicely?
Capital B., Capital S.!
If you want the language, music, and customs to perfectly suit your lifestyle, GO HOME! You were never invited to start with!!! And you bleeding heart liberals will blame the rest of us when your plan backfires and we are all living in the land of North Amexico.
June 1st, 2006 at 12:28 am[...] And: Bush’s highly-scripted 2001 inaugural ceremony actually featured a rendition of the national anthem sung in Spanish by Jon Secada. From Cox News Service, 1/18/01: [...]
June 5th, 2006 at 4:21 pm[...] From Think Progress: This morning, ThinkProgress revealed that, according to Kevin Phillip’s book American Dynasty, Bush himself sang the national anthem in Spanish. Looks like Bush’s conviction that “the national anthem ought to be sung in English” was something he acquired very recently. [...]
July 1st, 2006 at 8:02 pmu suck bush.
September 12th, 2006 at 7:05 pm
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