Well, Jeb Bush does speak fluent Spanish and has a Mexican wife as well as Hispanic Children, so personally I’d say his mistake can be laughed off more easily in this case…especially since it buys him nothing to have done this deliberately. I certainly can’t think of a reason why he would do something like this that would be some sort of political calculation on his part.
As someone who has my wife fill out most of my paperwork and someone who has randomly checked nearly every box (or scratched them out and put Human) on the silly race check boxes I can relate to either or to simply checking the wrong one.
Like I said, there are lots of other things to dislike about Bush or not vote for him (didn’t he recently put his foot in his mouth over the religious tolerance thingy that’s a backdoor way to discriminate against gays? Or am I thinking of someone else?).
I never said she was lying, and I have no idea what Fox would do if HRC had checked the wrong box on a voter registration card. Besides, that is not what was being claimed here. What was being claimed is that the two actions (By Bush and Warren) were if not the same, very similar. They are not. Do you think they are?
There are thousands of people who claim some Indian ancestry with no more “proof” than grandpa said his grandpa married an Indian. Remember such things might well have been tried to keep hidden 100 or more years ago. This seems particularly relevant in Warren’s case as some relatives were apparently upset about the same family lore.
There are thousands of people who have Indian Ancestry who cannot be registered tribal members. Many tribes require you to be at least 1/8 or even 1/4 descended from a tribal member to register.
He’s married to a hispanic woman, so I imagine he gets those fliers regardless. But in anycase, I can’t imagine Jeb takes it upon himself to personally monitor campaign literature for one ethnicity in a not very important primary state. I’m sure his campaign organization has people who do that in some sort of much more systematic fashion.
Then your words “doubled down” and “will claim to this day” were not well chosen, given their insinuating connotations.
Yes, she does, and said so in a debate with Brown, perhaps the one where he accused her of lying (“Clearly she isn’t”).
Of course you do.
Bush’s statement, although certainly inadvertent, was false. Warren’s was true as far as anyone, including her, can ever know, and given her origins is probably true. False and true are *not *similar.
Warren has not made the claim in any kind of official capacity or tried to get any of the benefits associated with being a Native American, as far as I know. She used it as “about me” info in a professional listing. Bush made his claim on a sworn government document. I’d say that’s worse.
But really, they are both stupid, nothing stories.
Warren suffers from the insinuation that she did try and gain advantage because someone on the Harvard Administration touted their diversity by using her Native American ancestry as an example. AFAIK, she was never an affirmative action candidate, and if you look at her record you can see that she wouldn’t need it anyway. Scott Brown rather shamelessly tried to make a big deal about this, but the fact is she does claim to be Native American based solely on family lore. If she were just some generic white person, family lore would most likely be wrong. Being from OK, it’s much more likely to be true.
That’s not a cite that she claimed in the debates to have high cheekbones. And those pictures don’t show it, either. She just looks like a grandmotherly white lady. Sort of like this woman.
See, thing is about the Cherokee was that they were intermarrying with white people almost from the git-go. Like a number of American Indian tribes, they accepted someone as Cherokee on a voluntary basis. The tribal leaders were often half or one quarter Cherokee, but nobody cared enough to make a big deal of it. So, when those people intermarried, the common formula for ethnic derivation became meaningless.
If your family was in Oklahoma or Texas from any time in the 1800’s, it is pretty likely you have some Cherokee blood. Scot/Irish and Cherokee mixture is very common in Texas, as well as being widely admired and envied by the less fortunate.
But there’s no way Jeb can pass for Mexican himself. He’ll have to bring the adoring wife and “little brown ones”, as Poppy Bush called them, everywhere he goes in search of the elusive Hispanic Republican vote.
That’s all fine and good, but the reason this has any traction at all is not that EW claims to have some Native American heritage, but that she claims to be Native American. That stretches credulity.
And President Obama is commonly referred to as being “black”. Whatever the hell that means.
So, by what means do you propose to authenticate her self-identification? DNA analysis? In your estimation, what it is approximate ratio one needs to be, say, Italian? Rather than having “some Italian heritage”?
Gods, that’s really off the scale.