How do you feel about Obama's "learn spanish" remark?

Question

Those remarks seem to say to me that he is still a true liberal at heart. I have noticed with dismay how he has been talking about God and faith and all that rubbish. But now I am reassured all that is just a ruse...for election's sake only...in his heart...he stands for rational liberal thought.

Answer 1

Obama was a lay preacher.  He seems more genuine when he talks about religion than McCain.  When McCain talks about faith he looks jittery and uncomfortable. He talks like he reading from a script.   Their faith is their main issue to me, they running for president, not America's pastor.  I'm not judge and jury, I'll leave that to the maker.  English first and then any second language second.  The world is ever changing and if our children are going to able to compete globally for jobs, they need to be as  well equipped as any other child around world.  

Answer 2

I think it's ridiculous.I think other countries should learn English if that's the case since they are all so eager to be here. I can't stand either of the candidates that we have running for president this year, I think the elections are a joke and I am not looking forward to it....  

Answer 3

Basically that it's a ploy to get the Mexican-American vote.  I'm more concerned with the number of American kids who don't meet the bar on many fundamentals, not the number of kids who aren't bilingual.  Whether you want to blame that on teachers having to take the time to teach subjects in spanish and english instead of just teaching, or just plain American laziness, or the fact that both parents HAVE to work so there's no one home to help with homework, I don't care where the blame lies.  But focusing on how American kids can't speak Spanish when there's so many other things that our kids fall behind on is, to me, plain vote-mongering from the Mexican-American group.

Add:  Here's something else to think about.  Go to every public school in America.  Some offer French.  Some offer German.  Some offer Latin.  You will be hard pressed to find ANY school that does NOT offer Spanish.  It's still optional, but it's taught in every single school.  I wouldn't be against it being made mandatory that everyone has one or two years of Spanish, but of all the languages around the world, Spanish is the most common for Americans to try and learn.  I wouldn't say we're as pitiful as he seems to think.

Answer 4

I think it is important that everyone should learn a new language. It is a very hard thing to do. However if we should learn to speak Spanish to help those coming to this country then they should also learn English as this will help them to have better opportunities.

What the youth of today really needs to learn is Chinese.    

Answer 5

What did he say about learning Spanish? I missed that.

Answer 6

What remark are you talking about?  I can't answer your question until I know what you're referring to.

Answer 7

http://townhall.com/columnists/AmandaCar...

http://yedies.blogspot.com/2008/07/obama...

http://www.firesociety.com/forum/thread/...

http://www.drudge.com/news/109854/obama-...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news...

Answer 8

Don't know which remark that was, sorry.