Romney Flosses with Shoelaces
Mitt Romney heads down to Florida and - though well-intentioned, I'm sure - snugly inserts foot into his mouth:
H/T Babalu.People chuckled when presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a Mormon raised in Michigan and elected in Massachusetts, bungled the names of Cuban-American politicians during a recent speech in Miami.
But when he mistakenly associated Fidel Castro's trademark speech-ending slogan -- Patria o muerte, venceremos! -- with a free Cuba, listeners didn't laugh. They winced.
Castro has closed his speeches with the phrase -- in English, ''Fatherland or death, we shall overcome'' -- for decades.
''Clearly, that's something he was ill-advised on or didn't do his homework on,'' said Hialeah City Council President Esteban Bovo. ``When you get cute with slogans, you get yourself into a trap.''
Follow up (3/20): Uncommon Sense.
2 comments:
Get the actual facts right people…
Here is what Romney said verbatim:
Romney: “I said at the outset that the threat in Latin America is unprecedented. I say that because the Castros have a second tyrant and he has great wealth, from oil. We must stand just as firm against caudillos like Hugo Chavez, tutored by Fidel Castro. Chavez and Castro are brothers in blood, intent on personal gratification at the expense of their people. Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro have stolen the phrase – ‘Patria o muerte, venceremos.’ This phrase should not be used by dictators, but by liberators.
“There are two spheres of influence in the Western Hemisphere. One is dark, bellicose and spreads misery by denying people basic freedoms; the other shines like a powerful light, is peaceful and wants only for its people to live in liberty and prosper.
Me: From what I see it says that DICTATORS shouldn’t be using this phrase and that it should be used by LIBERATORS.
What’s the deal? Sounds like some propaganda from the left to me.
A bunch of sheep is what you all are if you take what the media gives you and regurgitate it.
Conservative Gladiator
if true, you could have easily filled "us people" in on it without your unhealthy sprinkling of asshole.
i'd be more than happy to rectify, so how about a verifiable link for us "sheep," champ?
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