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Mysteriously, Puerto Rico doesn't vote for Santorum
Sunday, March 18, 2012 1:19 PM
ANTHONYT
Freedom is Important because People are Important
Sunday, March 18, 2012 1:35 PM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Sunday, March 18, 2012 1:40 PM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: SERIOUSLY?!? Well, you know, probably not enough of them read English to understand that ballot...that must be it!
Sunday, March 18, 2012 3:40 PM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Sunday, March 18, 2012 5:49 PM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
Sunday, March 18, 2012 6:03 PM
Quote:The literacy rate of the Puerto Rican population was 94.1% in 2002; when divided by gender, this is distributed as 93.9% for males and 94.4% for females.[3] According to the 2000 Census, 60.0% of the population attained a high school degree or higher level of education, and 18.3% has a bachelor's degree or higher.[4] Unlike most schools in the United States, public school instruction in Puerto Rico is conducted entirely in Spanish. English is taught as a second language and is a compulsory subject at all levels. In the early years following the 1898 American occupation of the island, the opposite was true: public schooling was entirely conducted in English and Spanish was treated as a special subject (the practice ended in 1915).
Monday, March 19, 2012 6:51 AM
Monday, March 19, 2012 6:59 AM
Quote:Just a few hours after Mitt Romney's landslide victory over Rick Santorum in Puerto Rico's Republican presidential primary, the Santorum campaign put out an e-mail release titled "Santorum campaign congratulates Romney on Puerto Rico victory." But the statement Sunday night from the campaign of the former senator from Pennsylvania was anything but congratulatory. In the release, Santorum communications director Hogan Gidley said, "Rick Santorum has a consistent core – and he showed that when he went to Puerto Rico and took a locally unpopular but principled stance about English being the official language of America. Mitt Romney on the other hand, switched another one of his positions to gain favor in Puerto Rico, by saying that Puerto Ricans shouldn't have to learn English if they want to become a state. We all know Mitt Romney will do and say anything to get votes, and this is just another example of that." Santorum did take a controversial stand on English as a condition for Puerto Rico's possible statehood last week in a newspaper interview on the island. He later said to an extent that he was misquoted or taken out of context. He told CNN National Political Correspondent Jim Acosta that both English and Spanish should be required if Puerto Rico were to become the 51st state. "Obviously Spanish will be spoken here on the island. But this needs to be a bilingual country, not just a Spanish speaking country," Santorum told Acosta. The Romney campaign reacted to the Santorum campaign statement Monday morning. "Sen. Santorum is lashing out at Mitt Romney because voters know we won't get the economy going again by replacing one president with no job creation experience with another with no job creation experience," Romney press secretary Andrea Saul told CNN. "Sen. Santorum doesn't understand how the economy works and also doesn't understand that English has been an official language of Puerto Rico for over 100 years." http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/19/santorums-congratulatory-statement-anything-but-congratulatory/, tch, children; play nice! Apparently Romney's wrong as well, since it says BOTH English and Spanish are the official languages. It was fun for a while, but this primary season has gotten downright boring with all the circus atmosphere, lies and idiocy coming out of their mouths. I wish now they'd just get on with it and (gawd forbid) act like adults!
Monday, March 19, 2012 7:20 AM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Quote:I wish now they'd just get on with it and (gawd forbid) act like adults!
Monday, March 19, 2012 7:39 AM
Quote: "Sen. Santorum is lashing out at Mitt Romney because voters know we won't get the economy going again by replacing one president with no job creation experience with another with no job creation experience," Romney press secretary Andrea Saul told CNN.
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