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Obama Just Can't Stop ... Not Shifting Rightward
LiberalOasis : The Blog — ... 4) Encouraged people to quit worrying about "English-only" laws and start worrying about getting our kids to learn second languages: ...

Civil Rights Roundup 07/10/08
The Moderate Voice — ... In related news, though I personally am awful with foreign languages, I can still recognize that if I were able to learn one it’d be a valuable skill. That apparently qualifies as progressive in today’s political context. ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... Look who's upset that Barack Obama said, "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.'" Why, it's ...

Obama Just Can’t Stop … Not Shifting Rightward
The Hollywood Liberal — ... the fact they get paid 78 cents on the dollar compared to men, and 62 percent of families rely on women for at least half and maybe more than half of their income,” Obama replied. “So if we can raise wages and incomes for women, if we can make sure that they’ve got paid family leave, if they’ve got more support for child care, that doesn’t just benefit women. It benefits all American families.” 4) Encouraged people to quit worrying about “English-only” laws and start worrying about getting our kids to learn second languages: “You know, I don’t understand when people are ...

GOP, the Know-Nothing Party
Daily Kos — ... Republicans have been in a lather since Barack Obama commented that American children should learn a foreign language in school. It demonstrates the extent to which they've become the party of ignorance. ...

Resolved: Republicans think you're dumb
Nitpicker — Recently, Barack Obama made the entirely uncontroversial point that American kids, in order to be more competitive globally, should be learning other languages. Conservatives, of course, crapped themselves. I won't link to the myriad idiotic complaints by the righties, but the Carpetbagger Report and ...

Wingnuts: Obtuse in any language
Orcinus — -- by Dave K Lo is "just curious": If Obama could go to Germany and give a speech in English and be not only understood but well-received, why does he say we all need to learn another language? Gee, maybe because he thinks being multilingual, as the Germans (and most Europeans) are, is a good thing. Here's what he said: “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 ...