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Tuesday, May 2, 2006 12:00 AM

Oh, say can you care?

The flap over a Spanish-language national anthem.

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  • Tuesday, May 2, 2006 10:00 AM

    Lamar is my Senator ....

    .. so I had the sincere pleasure of calling his office today to tell him I'd prefer he'd focus on the couple hundred thousands Tennesseans without health care thanks to the insolvency of our state medicaid program. I also told them that continuing to follow this idiot president will only lead Lamar off a cliff, and that they might want to know about THIS:

    From Kevin Phillips "American Dynasty," as reproduced on tbogg:

    "When visiting cities like Chicago, Milwaukee, or Philadelphia, in pivotal states, [Bush] would drop in at Hispanic festivals and parties, sometimes joining in singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in Spanish, sometimes partying with a "Viva Bush" mariachi band flown in from Texas."

    http://tbogg.blogspot.com/2004/01/case-in-point-over-week-ago-i.html

    Oh, the horror.

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