Obama Sounds More Like Jimmy Carter Each Day
The more Barack Obama speaks the clearer it becomes that he’s running for Jimmy Carter’s 2nd term. Obama’s latest jab at the American people is something that would sound right at home in almost any Carter speech:
“You know, it’s embarrassing when Europeans come over here, they all speak English, they speak French, they speak German. And then we go over to Europe, and all we can say (is), ‘Merci beaucoup.’ “
He and Michele are certainly establishing a pattern here. They’re not proud of Americans. He can surround himself with as many flags and pins as he wants, but the words coming out of his mouth tell the real story.
And then there’s this little tidbit from the same talk:
“But understand this: Instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English — they’ll learn English — you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish.
Our schools are doing such a wonderful job teaching basic English that I’m sure Spanish won’t be a problem. So now our children can barely speak 2 languages instead of just 1. That certainly sounds like a “progressive” agenda.
And instead of a melting pot, we can divide the country into the Spanish speaking areas, the English speaking areas, the Arabic speaking areas, the Mandarin speaking areas, etc. After all, why worry about 100s of years of success with the melting pot concept when elitist liberals like Obama want everyone speaking a different language. I’m sure that’ll work out wonderfully.
Archived in: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, English, illegal immigration, Jimmy Carter, language, Liberals, Presidential PoliticsJuly 9, 2008 at 8:01 pm | Trackback
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Obama’s displays of cultural subterfuge appear with the predictability of his lips moving in this political cycle. Since when is coercion an American value? Since when do Americans want to be coerced? Since when do Americans fall at the feet of The Coercer?
Liberalism speaks and liberties are endangered. If it feels good, tax it. If it encourages individuality, control it. If it produces private money shame it and make it unlawful.
English has been the common language of the spirit behind the words of our American success. Just as the English we speak ain’t the Queen’s English anymore our American tongue continues to evolve, shaped by Americans and their human need to express the bequeathed Liberty that in pure form seduces the starved human spirit.
Further, just as we add hundreds of new words every year to our commonality perhaps the time has come to pronounce a language of our own as Libertese, before that too is lost to the language of Liberalism.
Over at Firedoglake they are in knots about his mamboing around his various positions.
One poster suggested voting for Barr as a protest as long as he doesn’t win. I think EVERY body should vote for Barr as long as he doesn’t win. Snf guess what?
Gotta like that logic.
It’s just this type of ignorance that elected Bush 2 times. America needs to be focused more on real issues that impact their lives than this pettiness.
Real issues such as energy independence, climate change, ending this war, stabilizing the budget, the mortgage crisis, growing inflation all have to be slightly higher in importance than whether or not a candidate thinks children should learn Spanish (which by the way, they should).
OK Phil, here’s you chance to vote for god. (lower case)
Every problem you have enumerated has been caused by congress. Yes the government, I didn’t say the Donks or the RINO’s alone.
When they meddle in the free market, we get carefree investing and social responsibility. Everyone gets to gamble with the taxpayers money.
Screw Spanish, learn to speak Chinese, French, Russian, German, or Urdu. You sound biased sticking with the spanish.
Foreign language study is a part of every middle and high school in the country today,…again. According to one figure I can’t verify, 85% of all students today are required to take a foreign language.
It used to be part of every “college prep” curriculum, until it was dropped from that category to avoid offense to the industrial arts crowd, and to allow more boneheads to pass college entrance requirements. That was one stupid progressive policy taken to override one GOOD progressive policy.
European facility with languages is a consequence of their history, not their sophistication or advancement. Obama’s comments on European superiority in this area is disturbing not because of its elitism, but because he hasn’t developed past the kind of sophomoric bullshit you hear in college cafeterias.