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PRESIDENT BUSH: Madam President, it is a pleasure to welcome you back to the Oval Office. We have just had a very constructive dialogue. First, I want to tell you how proud I am to be the President of a nation that -- in which there's a lot of Philippine-Americans. They love America and they love their heritage. And I reminded the President that I am reminded of the great talent of the -- of our Philippine-Americans when I eat dinner at the White House. (Laughter.)PRESIDENT BUSH: And the chef is a great person and a really good cook, by the way, Madam President.
One of the White House cooks is Filipino and that is his comment about Philippine-Americans? That is what he says after the history of colonization? After hundreds just died last week in a typhoon? A cook? His dinner?
And Gloria thanks him?
Many reactions have suggested that GMA should have replied, "Your cook is a Filipino? Oh good, my driver is White."
Grow a backbone, Gloria.
Good commentary here.
Cross posted at A Womyn's Ecdysis
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