Feliz Cinco de Mayo mi Gente! ... or George Bush is a tool in any language

In a rare moment of stupid honesty, George W. Bush -- the boy who would be king -- told reporters who asked him about a new Spanish version of "The National Anthem" that our national anthem should be sung in English.

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Who gives a shit?! How stupid does one politician have to be to piss off a HUGE demographic on an issue that is essentially meaningless in every conceivable way? The National Anthem has been sung in Navajo at the Olympics. It gets sung before professional wrestling matches. Nobody knows the second and third verses. If someone wants to sing anything in whatever language they want to for the singular purpose of making it more their own, then God bless.

But even if it did irritate you that someone was taking our nation's theme song in vain, there isn't any good reason to say anything against it three days before Cinco de Mayo, the day after thousands of Mexicans proved they could turn out in massive numbers just to show their political potential. Why? Becauase it isn't illegal, immoral or problematic to sing anything in whatever the hell language you want to sing it in. I'm sure Italians have translated it into Italian and Germans have translated it into German.

So why alienate Mexican-Americans for no good reason? Stupidity. Or maybe Dubya just doesn't care how he looks because his legacy is tashed anyway.