’)Multiple Choice Mitt steps into it with the one hispanic element – Cuban Americans – that is in the GOP camp. Clap, Hugh Hewitt, maybe you’ll get a pony to save Mitt!
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This ranks up there with JFK’s “Ich bin ein Berliner!” (I am a donut!),and will prove to be as inconsequential.
But these non-Hispanic politicians better stop trying to speak Spanish.
I agree that few people will remember it by election time, but seriously, Frank…yelling “I am a donut” to a German audience is silly and embarassing, but shouting a slogan of Communist Castro to a crowd of people who escaped that same dictator is offensive and incredibly stupid. You can’t really compare the two gaffes as equal.
“a slogan of Communist Castro…”
Speaking of gaffes, that should probably say something more like “one of Castro’s slogans for Communist Cuba.”
The problem is, Mitt has to survive the primaries first.
SpiderJ: I’ve been posting here for several years, and it never fails: When a Democrat(ic) does something, it’s “silly and embarrassing”,but when a Republic(an) does something, it’s “offensive and incredibly stupid.”
What can I say?
You say “po – tah – toh”, and I say “po – tay – yoh”?
When people attribute being offended to racial or ethnic groups, they are saying that they can’t understand when a mistake is made, and, worse, that they all they feel the same way about a particular comment or act.
That’s Demo – think to me.
Yes, I seem to remember the outcry from Donut-Americans who were upset by Kennedy’s remarks.
I am a citizen of Berlin
According to Altavista, that is correct. Try it yourself.
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Duros: I was alive and reading the papers when it occurred. JFK meant to say “I am a citizen of Berlin,” but it is idiomatic that a “Berliner” is a jelly donut.
The use of the article ein (“a”or “one”) makes it so, vs. the article-less Berliner meaning “person from Berlin”. Imagine for a moment the difference between “I am Danish” and “I am a Danish.
So he should have said “Ich bin Berliner?”
But you don’t see the difference between what happened then and what has happened with Romney. Do I have that right? Kennedy adding an article v. Romney quoting Castro. Same diff, Frank?
Oh, Romney quoting Castro to a group who greatly oppose Castro, I should add.
If Kennedy had quoted something from Mein Kampf, then I could see an equivalence.
You people are ignoramuses.
Romney made a mistake = Kennedy made a mistake
All the rest is kinderspiel
Frank can’t see the difference between making a mistake of syntax and making a mistake of research. Mitt didn’t just say the wrong words due to poor translation, he chose the wrong thing to say to his audience.
That’s just bad public speaking and bad politics. Whoever wrote the speech for him should be fired.
He chose the wrong thing to say to his audience.
I can agree with that. But do you mean he was unintentionally offensive to X amount of Cuban – Americans?
That is, he made a mistake.
Not all mistakes have the same weight.
If you don’t believe that most simple of truths, then there’s really no hope for you.
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