Video Of The Day: Learn Spanish And Stop Embarrassing Me In Front Of Europe
The Bear on Jul 12 2008 at 3:50 am | Filed under: Election 08’, Immigration
Obama starts off this clip by opposing English as an official language, seems to emphasize that teaching kids Spanish is more important than teaching them English, and then says Americans are an embarrassment because they only know one language when they go to Europe. It may be the one of the most grotesquely arrogant, out of touch displays that I have seen from someone running for President in the last decade.
Money quote: “Understand this; don’t worry about immigrants learning to speak English, you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish!”
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“Also, Obama’s argument here makes no sense. He’s complaining that Americans don’t speak the native language when we visit Europe, but that we don’t speak the immigrant language when people move to the United States. With that argument, shouldn’t we expect Europeans to speak English when we travel there?”
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… while the Obama campaign supplied stickers and posters saying, “Latinos for Obama.”
“Sí, se puede!” Obama, who doesn’t speak Spanish, said as he arrived on stage.
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