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james_davis_nicollThe least Anglophone plausible candidate for the American Presidency? Accents don't count.
A potential POTUS who grew up speaking Spanish doesn't seem impossible. Or Cajun. And child-of-immigrants potentially offers any language on Earth as their milk-tongue.
A potential POTUS who grew up speaking Spanish doesn't seem impossible. Or Cajun. And child-of-immigrants potentially offers any language on Earth as their milk-tongue.
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Date: 2012-10-18 05:51 pm (UTC)For example, a 1st generation USAn with Brazilian parents who grew up in Framingham, MA would likely be bilingual, and might have an accent -- but probably not.
Oooh. OK, somebody with 2 USAn immigrant parents who go back to live in their original non-English speaking country right after the kid is born, retain citizenship and move back eighteen years later.
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Date: 2012-10-18 06:01 pm (UTC)Prediction: Presidental Candidate in 2052 (plus or minus 8 years)
- krin
(*) - substitute with whatever term you wish for a child that is born inside a country by a parent who is not a citizen of that country, in an attempt by the parent to stay in the country.
(**) - substitute with whatever term you wish for an adult entering and staying in a country against the conventions and legal frameworks provide for being in that country, and doing so willfully and with afore knowledge.
edit: correcting date and terms a bit.
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Date: 2012-10-18 06:21 pm (UTC)Somebody like Marco Rubio (Cuban parents who weren't even naturalized citizens at the time of his birth) might marginally fit the bill; I'll bet he has an accent when he's speaking to overwhelmingly Hispanic audiences, the same way Obama develops one when speaking to overwhelmingly black audiences. (Or the way everyone seems to develop a drawl when speaking in the South?)
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Date: 2012-10-18 06:23 pm (UTC)In Florida, we find Cuban-Americans. A guy from my high school graduating class became Mayor of Miami-Dade County. (Me, I may have been valedictorian, but I amounted to nothing.)
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Date: 2012-10-18 06:23 pm (UTC)Most plausible would be Marco Rubio, current US Senator from Florida. Fully bilingual, very conservative, up-and-comer in the Republicans.
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Date: 2012-10-18 08:20 pm (UTC)I can foresee difficulty for Rubio or someone else of Hispanic ancestry winning votes nationwide from the voters of today's Republican party. Maybe if he came out strongly for a law making English the Official Language...
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Date: 2012-10-18 11:43 pm (UTC)1. Such as the Puerto Ricans who constantly have to remind other Americans that they are indeed Americans already. Or the ones from countries where they don't get a free pass for getting a foot on American soil.
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Date: 2012-10-18 08:29 pm (UTC)Huh.
Don't Republicans think life begins at conception? And Jindal was not conceived in the US, as far as I can tell.
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Date: 2012-10-18 09:49 pm (UTC)(Fred Clark had a related post about how racism is totally okay, but feminism is beyond the pale, today)
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Date: 2012-10-19 06:48 am (UTC)There are other fuddy-duddy institutions like birthdays (rather than conception days) and being supposedly allowed to vote at "18 years of age" when you actually have to wait until you've been alive roughly 18 3/4 years.
Harumph!
Nich
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Date: 2012-10-19 06:31 am (UTC)Bruce
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Date: 2012-10-19 01:29 am (UTC)Anyway, yas, our first (and last) President for whom English was a second language.
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Date: 2012-10-21 05:09 am (UTC)--Dave, his words reverberate
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Date: 2012-10-19 01:03 pm (UTC)Of course, with voice synthesizers and translation programs, the candidate would actually be less impaired by spoken language differences than the other candidates.
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Date: 2012-10-20 10:22 am (UTC)On the other hand, you do have to kind of take on faith that the person in the chair is also the one working the electronics. I'll let others make up their own list of politicians who seem to be animatronic dolls operated from off camera by a Dalek...
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