Comments on: When in Rome, Amigo . . .

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:39:39 +0000

I apologize for my spelling and grammar. It is even worst today than normal.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:16:38 +0000

LB
I was trying to humorously though in a jab at Obama statement about the U.S. kids need to learn Spanish and supposedly he doesn’t know Spanish himself.

Also I think it is ironic when the left bash Bush for knowing some Spanish and don’t give him any credit whatsoever. I suppose they think it is less impressive than not knowing any at all.

What is worst, someone who doesn’t try to speak a foreign language or one who does and misses up?

By: sam

sam — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:01:21 +0000

Bush is much better at Spanish than Obama.

Well that settles it.

By: LaurenceB

LaurenceB — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:50:47 +0000

As others have said, this is another in the long list of non-gaffes that I will chalk up to the need for our political pundits to find "politertainment" to discuss, rather than something that requires the viewer to have an understanding of actual policy.

Bush is much better at Spanish than Obama.

It's possible I guess Wayne. But I've never heard Obama attempt to speak Spanish. Have you?

By: Tlaloc

Tlaloc — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:32:55 +0000

I can't bash him for that. I sometimes call people "amigo" despite neither I nor them being or speacking spanish. This is no "is our children learning".

By: Alex Knapp

Alex Knapp — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:32:19 +0000

My first thought on hearing this is that the reporter misheard "amico" as "amigo." But even if he said "amigo", what of it? It's not really a mistake or a gaffe, is it? I also use "amigo" to refer to friends in the United States, even though I was assured yesterday that such multilingual affectations were elitist, and that English is the only language that real Americans should speak.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:25:16 +0000

By the way, Italian and Spanish originated from the same root language and share many similar sounding words and are similar in other ways.

Bush is much better at Spanish than Obama.

By: Boyd

Boyd — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:25:07 +0000

His brother, Jeb, on the other hand, is impressively fluent in Spanish.

Since his wife is Mexican, this would make sense.

By: LaurenceB

LaurenceB — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:19:15 +0000

Bush is not at all fluent in Spanish. He knows a few words - roughly High School spanish level. I've seen him interviewed on Spanish cable television.

His brother, Jeb, on the other hand, is impressively fluent in Spanish.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:14:12 +0000

It is not like the left hasn’t made things up about Bush or say Bush said something that he didn’t.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:12:10 +0000

Bush himself has laugh at some of his gaffes and some of them have been quite funny. This doesn’t mean that someone can’t be disgusted with lame attempts to pile on especially if they make things up to do it. Anyone have audio for this suppose gaffe.

By: anjin-san

anjin-san — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:07:13 +0000

Bush is fluent in Spanish

We keep hearing this, but I find it hard to believe. After all, he is not fluent in English...

By: Derrick

Derrick — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:39:20 +0000

It's so sad to see the self-pitying that goes on with the last remnants of the Bush supporters. If you can't find humor in Bush's repeated struggles with language, you're being a bit to sensitive.

By: just me

just me — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:28:40 +0000

Bush is fluent in Spanish-it is possible they speak to each other in Spanish.

This is somebody looking for somebody to do something stupid and finding something small.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:24:44 +0000

Amigo vs. Amico which is said to be pretty close. Pretty lame slam. Are they going start on his southern accent again? How about how someone pronounces potato? How many dignitaries butcher our English language? Should we make fun of anyone who doesn’t pronounce words exactly like we think they should even if they are close? Lame!

And don’t give me you know he was speaking Spanish with the use of one word that sounds close to an Italian word.