it's a touchy subject, no?
What, guacamole?
Oh sorry, it looks like we are talking about raising our kids with their eyes and brains wide open again.

it's a touchy subject, no?
2. When he said, "... we go over to Europe, and all we can say is, 'Merci, beaucoup' ", that was elitist. Most people I know never dream of going to New York City, much less Europe. Only the privileged few (or those in the military) take for granted that an overseas trip is a given. Obama's blas? comment about traveling to Europe is elitist. The talking heads on CNN also agree with me on this. And consistently they have been, not just on the Democratic Party's side, but on Obama's side during the primaries.
According to CNN, Obama said that rather than Latinos assimilating, U.S. children should learn Spanish. It's a noble goal for U.S. citizens to not be so provincial and to be able to converse in other languages. But it just shows just how elitist Obama is -- he has no clue that in a county in a suburb of a major U.S. city (e.g., Atlanta), there is a 40% illteracy rate in the ENGLISH language.
Even Jack Cafferty and the CNN crew were dissing Obama for his comments regarding this issue.
Maybe someday English will become the universal language. But, would that really be a good thing?
As for Obama suggesting that we teach our kids Spanish, he himself does not speak Spanish. Was he being an elitist? If he had suggested any language other than French, I would say no but by pushing French, he pandered to his leftist supporters on the upper west side. This may have been an attempt to negate his move to the middle and the accompanying fanfare. Now that he has locked lips with the French, he can now safely scamper back towards the middle.![]()
Fascinating...
And here the whole time I thought Obama was addressing the fact that, unlike most industrialized nations, the vast majority of the US population is not multilingual (and that we should do something about it)...
But rather than making reasonable points all this time he was really pandering to those elitest French bastages...
:roll:
Well yeah, but the operative question is why? Or more specifically, why now? In addition to his leftist pandering, he goes to Europe in two weeks and his ports of call include Paris. The Dems seem to be obsessed with "restoring our reputation in the world" and especially in western Europe. Paris seems to be the targeted crossroads for the repair work hence Obama, I'm guessing, also pandered to the hapless French so they would assemble in huge thongs in the street and cheer him and then those here at home who care about such things, well they can allow the warm and fuzzies to run down their backbone or if they want to be like Chris Matthews, down their leg.