Taking pandering to new lows, Obambi sucks up to the immigrant base:
"When it comes to second-language learners, the most important thing is not to get bogged down in ideology, but figure out what works," Obama says. "Everybody should be bilingual, or everybody should be trilingual." The comments drew loud applause.Of course they did.
There was once a time where immigrants came here to the US and assimilated because they knew it meant that their children would have greater opportunity. My own grandfather and grandmother were right off the boat Germans who learned English quickly and only spoke it in their house. My mother doesn't even speak any German because her parents wanted her to become and American of German ancestry instead of a German living in America.
Everyone in America should be unilingual first and that language should be the English language. Does Obama not understand that English is the international language and the ability to speak it offers one far more choice in careers than any other language? While knowing several languages is a nice asset, being able to speak English fluently should be the top priority.
The longer the campaign continues, the more Obama melts down. McCain will eat him alive come the general.
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English is the Official International Language . If an airplane leaves Moscow and flies to Beijing, there is an air traffic controler in both towers that speakes English as well as someone in the cockpit that speaks English. Most people are bilingual out of necissity. If you plan to never leave the U.S.A. there is no reason to speak another language.
anonymous put it very well.
it's certainly true that immigrants should accomodate themselves to english.
at the same time, however, it's true that there once was a time when american students dedicated themselves to learning a second language because to not know french or german or spanish was to be unsophisticated and unworldly.
frustration at public bilingualism often obscures a slothfull comfort with that unsophisticated unworldliness.
I agree wholeheartedly that immigrants who don't speak English are at a huge disadvantage, not just here in the U.S., but everywhere in the civilized world.
I love listening to foreign languages, and have sung in German, Italian, Latin, French and Spanish. They are all beautiful languages, but that's not the point.
And that butt-sniffing douche Obambi is just pandering, as was pointed out.
My great-grandparents were straight out of Germany, both sides, paternal and maternal. They all learned English, adopted the American Way as their own, and prospered. My great-grandparents owned a florist and my grandpa got a job with Martin Marietta, working as a contractor for NASA, with a third-grade education. English is the language of success, and I REFUSE to learn another language for any reason other than my own pleasure and enlightenment. I've been overqualified for jobs but could not have been hired because I refuse to learn Spanish. I won't even apply for such a job. Not many things annoy me more than hearing adults speaking to their (assuming) children in stores in another language, not even making an attempt to assimilate. When in Rome... this is Rome, baby, learn it, live it, love it.
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