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...lived his life in accordance with his professed values. And it obviously tests his commitment to those values as well. That's why the political-robotics technicians of both parties expend so much energy staging tableaux of loving family life, though strictly speaking the number of one's children, grandchildren and household pets is irrelevant in evaluating one's views on federal day care...
Besides, how can anyone think that Grandpa Bush would want to offend his own grandchildren? It would have created a stir if Bush was referring to the entire Hispanic community, and if he showed a desire to offend Hispanics. But he wasn't and he didn't He was making an observation, obviously an awkward one, when he said that those are my grandchildren, who happen to stand out a bit in my predominantly white family because they have dark skin, darker than mine if you must know...
Such a comment would have Bush kicked out of Washington and Gov. Michael S. Dukakis rushed into the White House. Bush, of course, didn't say this. Yet that is exactly what many of Democratic opponents wish the incident with his three grandchildren would become...
They could point to the fact that Bush will use his son Jeb's family, who are all bilingual, to attract the Hispanic vote. Bush has created a liasion between himself and the nation's Hispanics, through his grandchildren and his daughter-in-law. He could not talk to them directly since he doesn't know Spanish, so he will use other members of his family to relay his message...
...need more than Jeb and his wife and kids to attract the Hispanic vote. He will have to prove to the Hispanic community that he will help improve its overall situation in American society. But if he continues to be as awkward as he was in describing his own grandchildren, the nation's Hispanics will keep talking in Spanish while George stumbles along in English...