I understand the distinction you were making but what I was admitting to was the fact that I don’t speak Latin American Spanish at a good level. I really do speak street Spanish, I appreciate the distinction. There would have been some reaction if I had spoken in a educated, articulate level of Mexican or Latin American Spanish, but I didn’t and don’t.

Serving with the USAF (protestants, regardless of nationality were not allowed to served)in Spain back in late 1950’s bring back memories when all southwestern Mexican-American, Puerto Ricans, and other so called “Latinos” were told to go to a class conducted by one Professor Miguel Blanco and “learn” the real Spanish (Castellano) so that we could communicate with the local population.

We were amused really at the challenge since the Castilian language in the Americas had long disappeared for over two hundred years when the Mexicans, in addition to rest of the Americas, kicked out the Spanish and discarded the yoke around their necks, only to be replaced by another one later on.

One young Mexican-American, a 2/lt. from Texas who was on board as a medical officer was the first to question the professor in regards to the “Castillian” language. He remarked the Castellano was not acceptable throughout the Americas for reasons it didn’t sound correct with the lisp sound where Madrid was spoken as “Madith” and Barcelona sounded like “Barcethona.” If anyone spoke with a lisp like that, the young 2Lt. added, people will start laughing.

The fact is, the lisp sound in the Castilian language derived from the 14-15th century because all of their princess and prince’s with the same “blue” blood were inter marrying their cousins, aunts and other relatives for centuries. First cousins, aunts and uncles were inter-marring and producing brain damaged offsprings speaking with a “lisp” sound. The Spanish nobility even had a Queen who was quietly addressed “Juana La Loca!”

Yes, indeed, just like in Newt Gingrich’s Southern Baptist Georgians where they go to family picnics to find a wife.

I’ll take the good old Mexican-American spanglish, texican or whatever, rather than the lisp sounding Castilian anytime. And just think, almost two entire continents in the Western Hemisphere called the Americas, have their own way of speaking spanish where Castilian is not even an option.

But back to Newt Gingrich. The damn ass hillbilly can’t even speak proper “American” (whatever that is), let alone other languages. So you see, not only the Spanish are ignorant of Hispanic Americans, but so are most in the USA.

In fact, while Nixon, Reagan and the two Bushes were presidents, US Americans were more disliked than Spain was. President Obama is having a hell of time changing that attitude. The fact there is no love lost between the US and the rest of Latin America comes down to the like of Newt Gingrich.

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You’re right, but it’s exactly what happens with “mistress” to me.

I once gave a presentation at a conference in Barcelone. At first people looked at me as if I wasn’t speaking Spanish, then they realized that I speak garbage-Mexican market-street Spanish, because that is where I learned to speak Spanish. After they got over looking down there noses at my really very low-grade Spanish, they did appreciate the fact that I was at least attempting to speak to them in their language; then, they asked me to speak in French.

Nothing that Newt can twitter it going to change the nativist, racist cant of what remains of the Republican Party. All one need do is listen to Alabama Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III to get where the GOP is going. It can go to that bad place without me and everyone I know. And, that’s too bad because a time will come when we’re going to miss a two party system. Sadly, until the GOP has the courage to deep-six their racist, nativist, know-nothing “base” and turn back to sound conservative principles of environmental conservation, smaller, more-efficient and more honest government with balanced budgets — which means collecting taxes to cover the cost of services actually delivered — they have nothing to contribute to rational public policy dialogue.

Abortion, stem-cell research and gay-marriage are essentially religious issues not political ones; fighting for the primacy of one religion’s opinion over the rights of other citizens is not a conservative principle, it is a canard to get religious zealots to throw in with a party that has no political principles. Sadly that oke-doke worked far too-well for too-long — placing majority power in the hands of unprincipled charlatans. That game is over in any language.

Damn, from California to Florida to Argentina and Chile–that’s one big mf’n ghetto!

This man is a “DISGRACE”. to Politics.

“Mistress” can be translated to “Querida”, too.

As George Burns said: “Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.”

Obviously, El Gringo got the message last November. Hispanics vote for Barack Obama in mass.

But for your information, Hispanic didn’t vote for a black or an African-American, they voted for a Democrat who is having a hell of time keeping his promises, not with the likes of El Gringo, El Rusho Limputa (Rush Limbaugh) or Patricio el loco irlandes duende (Pat Buchanan the idiot Irish Leprechaun), but from the conservatives in his own party. Not surprising though, these rightwing conservatives Democrats kept real quiet about their “hidden closet conservatism” until after the votes were counted!

LBJ, where are you now when the Democratic Party needs you?

As for reading his tweet, Google Translator is pretty good, but for the love of all that’s saint to him (Reagan basically), Newt should get someone to revise it.

Neutonio Gringucho.

How does he spell ‘cheating’, ‘divorce’, ‘wife with cancer’….Curious minds need to know…

engañar
divorcio
esposa con cancer

hipocresía (hypocrisy)