The Week.(comments about George W. Bush and the Republican National Convention)

From: National Review | Date: August 28, 2000 | Copyright information

The Republican convention featured 32-year-old California state assemblyman Abel Maldonado, giving a seven-minute speech entirely in Spanish. If he progresses at the rate of students in present-day bilingual-education classes, Sr. Maldonado should be giving a speech in fractured Spanglish by about 2012.

Brian McGrory, writing in the Boston Globe, gushes that Ted Kennedy is "the most influential legislator this state has ever known." Oh, yeah? Let the roll be called. John...

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