Guess the candidate (Bush appealed to Hispanics using Mexican flag, omitted guest worker plan from English-language side of site)
Posted Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 9:25 am
Dana Milbank in the WaPo writes about a certain candidate's web site. Can you guess which candidate he's referring to?
As pointed out by Milbank, this discrepancy was first pointed out by ProjectUSA in the article "Divided USA, divided GOP, divided Bush-Cheney website".
Milbank quotes the following from ProjectUSA's article:
On the [CANDIDATE'S] campaign's Spanish-language Web site, prominent display is given to a translation of [THE CANDIDATE'S] Jan. 7 speech proposing an immigration plan involving "guest workers." But the speech was mysteriously missing from the [CANDIDATE'S] campaign's English-language Web site, which includes almost every speech [THE CANDIDATE] gives.The CANDIDATE in question is, of course, President Bush. One has to wonder about the mindset of people who think not pointing to English-only pages is a good thing.
...[and,] on the Spanish-language site the Mexican flag was displayed prominently in the main photograph.
A [CANDIDATE] campaign official said last week that missing immigration speech was "a complete oversight" -- and quickly posted the Jan. 7 speech on the English Web site. The Mexican flag remains on the Spanish-language site. A [CANDIDATE] spokeswoman also pointed out that [OPPOSING CANDIDATE'S] Spanish-language Web site has numerous Spanish sections -- such as Contribuya al DNC and Sea Voluntario that link to English-only pages.
As pointed out by Milbank, this discrepancy was first pointed out by ProjectUSA in the article "Divided USA, divided GOP, divided Bush-Cheney website".
Milbank quotes the following from ProjectUSA's article:
"[Bush is] dividing the nation's voters into two groups and appealing to one under the flag of some other nation."UPDATE: A commentator says Dana is a he, not a she as I originally pronoun'ed above. Assuming that's correct, I changed "she" to "he."
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s (not verified)
Sat, 09/25/2004 - 12:14
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Just a note: Dana Milbank is, putatively, male.
Alex (not verified)
Sat, 09/25/2004 - 11:23
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They should start being called what they are, whores and pimps and basically traitors to the American institutions and American people. More than time people mock and scorn any of them in public and find ways to make changes.
John S Bolton (not verified)
Sat, 09/25/2004 - 10:41
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Double-dealing of this kind shows a hatred against reason and humanity. They assume that contradictions are not a problem and that we won't notice them. What works in targeted mailings, where they get away with espousing opposite policies to different groups, is not going to be gotten away with in the larger sphere. By now, people have learned that when this administration promotes two contradictory policies, it is the more traitorous one which is to be pursued in actuality. The double loyalties, presented as slickness; the enhancement of ethnic conflicts for political aggrandizement, these and more are cases of people out of their depth, playing with combustibles.