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[Kat]

 

Ted Cruz is just.. multiple layers of stupidity and ignorance. Ugh.

[Fikri]

Many twitter users in Argentina and China have ridiculed Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner for poking fun at how the Chinese speak.

During a visit to China, Ms Fernandez made reference to how some Chinese struggle to pronounce the letter "r".

Tweeting in Spanish, she wondered whether those at an event about trade were there for "lice" and "petloleum".

Her supporters said it was a light-hearted joke, but others disagreed.

"Cristina Fernandez's lack of tack and respect is incredible," wrote @FaundezLafarga. "She goes to China looking for (economic) agreements and she makes fun of their accents."

Financial Times' journalist @GuyChazan wrote: "Faux pas in China. Really, this sort of joke went out of fashion in the 70s."

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President Fernandez suggested that the Chinese struggled to pronounce "rice", "petroleum" and "Campora", the Spanish name given to the youth wing of her political party.

"More than 1,000 participants at the event... Are they all from the Campola and in it only for the lice and petloleum?" she tweeted.
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[DregsandDregs]

I feel like we should launch a superpac that basically collects these bullshit quotes, ask the politicians if they stand by them still, then come election time spam it out everywhere.