"Jeb's wife is Mexican"

[question everything]

I have heard this term before and now, again, after Jeb responded to Trump.

Even at a recent LBN story

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141137741

She is American. At most, Mexican American. After all, Teresa Heinz Kerry was born in Mozambique but not one ever referred to her as Mozambiquan, or African or... African American.

So why not refer to Columba is "born in Mexico" or Mexican American?

We know that this issue will be hinted at during the Republican primaries and we can just munch on our popcorn and watch, but I don't understand why the various news sources refer to her as "Mexican."

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. My understanding is that she was born in Mexico City

not that it matters to me, since I was born in Mexico City. And I did not know that about Theresa Heinz Kerry. Nice tidbit showing just how bad both racism and partisanship are getting.

[KamaAina]

7. Actually, a city called León in Guanajuato

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columba_Bush#Early_life

Columba Bush was born in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, the daughter of José María Garnica Rodríguez (1925-2013), a migrant worker and waiter from Arperos, Guanajuato, and Josefina Gallo Esquivel (born 1920) from León, who were married in 1949. Her father abandoned the family when she was 3 years old in 1956. Her parents were divorced in 1963 when Columba was 10 years old. She remained in León with her mother while her father emigrated to the United States.

She attended Instituto Antonia Mayllen, a private Catholic school in the historic center of León.

She met Jeb Bush in 1970 in León when she was 16 years old and he was 17. He was teaching English as a second language and assisting in the building of a school in a small village outside of León, Guanajuato, Mexico, (the village of Ibarrilla) as part of a class at Andover called Man and Society.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Small city.. beautiful place

and the heart of what once was the leather industry... in the country.

[Beaverhausen]

2. Pretty sure her birthplace is being discussed because of Trump's comments

and, I assume, this fact informs Jeb's view on immigration.

[Octafish]

3. That is something to be proud of.

I am fortunate to know a good many people who are Mexican and whose families came from Mexico.

Why would anyone but a fascist have a problem with that?

[maxrandb]

4. When will Trump

start demanding to see her Birth Certificate or Naturalization Papers?

[HooptieWagon]

5. The bigger question is her behavior...

...caught smuggling jewels past US Customs. Not where she was born.

[Cleita]

6. She was born in Leon, Mexico of Mexican parents.

She probably is a naturalized American citizen.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2918970/An-illegal-immigrant-warring-parents-bitter-rift-father-did-not-40-years-extraordinary-story-Columba-Bush-husband-bids-make-Hispanic-lady.html

[Beacool]

9. She IS Mexican.

She was born in Mexico of Mexican parents who later on emigrated to the US.

Either way, that's not the reason why I wouldn't vote for Jeb. If anything, his marriage is a plus IMO.

[DavidDvorkin]

10. She is a naturalized US citizen

There are a lot of us in the US.

[UTUSN]

11. She's a U.S. Citizen. The real point is Repuke racism. JEBster said they moved to FL because of the

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racism they faced in Texas. Reading between the lines, *who* can we guess gave the happy couple the racism?!1 Might I suggest this scenario: Mrs JEBster walks into a banquet room full of Repuke trophy wives and waves of muffled snickering flow across the room, and for sure the "jokes" about, "I thought she was my maid." Poppy's "my little Brown ones (grandchildren)" even fits.


At this late date, Mittens ROMNEY continues to show his cluelessness, referring to "Mexicans" and "Mexican Americans" interchangeably. Not to mention that wingnuts constantly claim Dems want the VOTES of (undocumented immigrants). Uh, non-U.S. citizens can't vote. Besides that the ones who are here are so preoccupied with *surviving* and mostly clueless about politics here that they have near zero interest in the luxury of voting.

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“Do you think Donald Trump’s comments on [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Mexicans[/FONT] have hurt the Republican Party?” a reporter asked Romney in video carried on CNN on Saturday.

“Yes, I think he made a severe error in saying what he did about [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Mexican-Americans[/FONT],” Romney replied. “And it’s unfortunate.”

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[Initech]

12. Donald Trump really hates Mexican people doesn’t he?

[Cleita]

13. Since its Mexicans and other Latinos that probably keep his hotels, resorts and other

holdings running, it's pretty amazing he should go there.

[Angry Dragon]

14. Perhaps they short sheet him all the time

[Cleita]

17. If I were one of his maids and I heard those things he's saying, I'd do

more than short sheet.

[Initech]

20. They also manufacture his clothing line.

So yeah Trump, keep going there.

[Motown_Johnny]

15. (R)s can't vilify rich white Mozambiquan woman.

There was no upside to pointing it out.


Mrs. Bush and her husband will be found guilty by association by every bigot in their party.

[DefenseLawyer]

16. Maybe the whole thing is a canard

Send buffoon Trump out to make incendiary comments about Mexicans and Jeb gets an opportunity to look "moderate" and the GOP can remind potential latino voters that "Jeb's wife is Mexican".

[JI7]

18. because the point of it often has to do with her background

[JI7]

19. at the time it was a portuguese colony

And that's how teresa was born there.

But she was referred to as a foreigner

[arely staircase]

21. I have always suspected Trump was trolling Bush with the anti-Mexican stuuf. nt