Wednesday, July 09, 2008

HERE'S WHAT HANNITY WON'T TELL YOU

The latest thing to outrage the wingnuts is Obama's suggestion that American students should learn another language. This supposedly is offensive to the "English-only" crowd but Obama wasn't calling for pandering to Hispanics. Transcript from Salon, " One nation, not just speaking English":
You know, I don't understand when people are going around worrying about, "We need to have English- only." They want to pass a law, "We want English-only."

Now, I agree that immigrants should learn English. I agree with that. 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. You should be thinking about, how can your child become bilingual? We should have every child speaking more than one language.

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