Mitt Romney & Fidel Castro

4:00 pm EST March 20th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 18 Comments

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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18 Responses to “Mitt Romney & Fidel Castro”

  1. fd10801 says:
    March 20, 2007 at 4:07 pm

    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.

  2. SpiderJ says:
    March 20, 2007 at 4:27 pm

    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.

  3. SpiderJ says:
    March 20, 2007 at 4:29 pm

    “a slogan of Communist Castro…”

    Speaking of gaffes, that should probably say something more like “one of Castro’s slogans for Communist Cuba.”

  4. Oliver Willis says:
    March 20, 2007 at 4:49 pm

    The problem is, Mitt has to survive the primaries first.

  5. fd10801 says:
    March 20, 2007 at 4:51 pm

    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.

  6. Duros62 says:
    March 20, 2007 at 5:06 pm

    Yes, I seem to remember the outcry from Donut-Americans who were upset by Kennedy’s remarks.

  7. Duros62 says:
    March 20, 2007 at 5:10 pm

    I am a citizen of Berlin
    According to Altavista, that is correct. Try it yourself.

    http://babelfish.altavista.com/

  8. fd10801 says:
    March 20, 2007 at 5:30 pm

    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.

  9. Duros62 says:
    March 20, 2007 at 5:58 pm

    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?

  10. Duros62 says:
    March 20, 2007 at 5:59 pm

    Oh, Romney quoting Castro to a group who greatly oppose Castro, I should add.

  11. Duros62 says:
    March 20, 2007 at 6:07 pm

    If Kennedy had quoted something from Mein Kampf, then I could see an equivalence.

  12. David Glick says:
    March 20, 2007 at 7:26 pm

    You people are ignoramuses.

  13. fd10801 says:
    March 20, 2007 at 7:34 pm

    Romney made a mistake = Kennedy made a mistake

    All the rest is kinderspiel

  14. SpiderJ says:
    March 20, 2007 at 11:57 pm

    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.

  15. fd10801 says:
    March 21, 2007 at 10:15 am

    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.

  16. SpiderJ says:
    March 21, 2007 at 11:03 am

    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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