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"If you've read the latest Eckhart Tolle book you know that "te quiero" means I want you and "te amo" I love you. The former is the more common way to say "I love you" in Spanish because, according to Tolle, the Spanish are more honest about what "love" usually means. That is, it usually means desire, lust, obsession, and an uncontrollable urge to possess someone. Hence, the expression "te quiero"--"I want you."
It is telling that Hillary Clinton chose the form "te quiero" and not the less common but equally correct form "te amo."
Hillary Clinton "wants" Puerto Rico. She doesn't love it. I assume her feelings about the rest of the American public and the US presidency are the same. She "wants" to be president not because she "loves" America but because she "wants" power. She doesn't love America because if she did she wouldn't be on this narcissistic crusade to make her own party look like a bunch of morons."-baloo
TE QUIERO is correct! No Latino that tells their grandmother "te amo". TE AMO is amorous and it is the proper I love you for lovers. Just tune in to the tele novelas and you will learn within a half hour that mami "te quiero" means mommy I love you. No child is ever heard saying mami "te amo"!
If you want to knock Hillary around do it on policy and facts. Hillary does love her country and she has shown it through many years of service. Some people do remember and they have continued their support of her. It must be hard for the Obama campaign to see a RAINBOW island vote for her 2 to 1 and that they saw her as a person with a long history of service and experience. She was the best candidate that happens to be a woman.
Yo TE QUIERO too Puerto Rico and my next vacation will be in your beautiful island. Viva Puerto Rico!
