Senator Obama believes it's more important for Americans to learn Spanish than to have a law making English the national language:
Powerline believes the Senator is out of touch with the mainstream of American opinion on this matter:
Attending to the news of the day, Scott Rasmussen polled the comparative importance to Americans of immigrants learning English versus Americans learning a foreign language. Rasmussen reports, in English, that Americans reject Obama's call for bilingualism, with 83 percent of respondents placing a higher priority on encouraging immigrants to speak English as their primary language. Just 13 percent took the opposite view saying it is more important for Americans to learn other languages. Rasmussen does not report how many respondents associated the latter view with Obama.
Rasmussen also found that only 26 percent believe that every American should be able to speak at least two languages. Breaking the results down along party lines, Rasmussen found that 79 percent of Republicans and 59 percent of Democrats reject the idea that all Americans should know multiple languages. Sixty-eight percent of independent voters rejected the importance of American bilingualism.
The question I have for Senator Obama is, if all the rest of the world can speak our language, why do we need to learn theirs?
Anyway, if Senator Obama wins in November maybe we would all do well to learn Arabic.
RLC