Bush Wants Newcomers to Know English (no he doesn't/yes he does)

[deminks]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060520/ap_on_go_pr_wh/immigration_english

WASHINGTON - The White House took both sides in a dispute over English being the national language Friday as a broad immigration bill moved toward a final Senate vote next week with one conservative predicting it will never become law.

Bush's support for the dueling sides doesn't stray from his long-held view on learning English, said White House press secretary Tony Snow.

"What the president has said all along is that he wants to make sure that people who become American citizens have a command of the English language," Snow said. "It's as simple as that."

As governor of Texas and a presidential candidate in 2000, Bush supported bilingual education programs. He sprinkles Spanish into his presidential speeches and has released political commercials in Spanish. But he also has said the national anthem should be sung in English.

[babylonsister]

1. He embraced the term 'flip-flop'; he now owns it. nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. Bush doesn't even speak English himself.

At least not properly and in an educated fashion!

[niyad]

3. for a man who doesn't seem able to construct two coherenet sentences

in what is supposed to be his native (and most expensively educated) tongue, I find this the height of hysterical hypocricy and arrogance.

[madeline_con]

4. "The Decider" can't decide. eom

[struggle4progress]

10. He's countin on folk hearin what they wanna hear and ignorin what ..

.. they don't wanna hear.

The Administration's been usin this tactic since day one: Say X to group A. Say Y to group B. Tell the media yer bein misquoted and misrepresented. Say Z to group C. Expect that anybody's who followin the details closely will be unable to explain yer wafflin history clear in a few short simple English sentences ..

[Orsino]

5. Yeah? We'd like a prez who doesn't mire us in endless war...

...and a Congress responsible to actual citizens. It would be nice if oil came out of the ground already refined into gasoline, too, but no, Tony--it's not as simple as that.

[kskiska]

6. He also waved the Mexican flag while governor

[radfringe]

7. what I want to know is

how do you say Mi casa su casa in chinese?

[treestar]

8. There has been an English requirement for naturalization

for decades. They use the sheeple's ignorance of the law to pander by passing the same ones again.

[peacefreak]

9. This is a great chance for *

He can learn to speak English & set a good example.

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[pinerow]

12. Seems like you may need a chill pill...no one said english should

be supplanted by any other language...typical 'straw man' argument...sheesh!!

[Skittles]

13. hey nut job

take a hike

[sadiesworld]

14. As if Bush gives a rat's ass either way.

:eyes:

[rocktivity]

15. Rocknation wants BUSH to learn English!

rocknation