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Pie A La Mode, Senor Obama

On Tuesday, Senator Barack Obama told a group of supporters in Powder Springs, Georgia just what direction he wants to take the country.

Can you say, “Hola, Amigo” ?

If you look at his voting record, you’ll see that BO has opposed every legislative attempt to make English the national official language. Instead, he wants all our children to learn to speak Spanish.

Now I have no argument with the benefits to our children of being bilingual, or even trilingual. Anyone with a brain understands that being able to communicate in Spanish with Mexican or Latin-American business people is an advantage. Likewise, being fluent in Japanese or Chinese is a bonus.  But what does that have to do with making English the official language?

Senor Obama revealed that he is as embarrassed with America (as his lovely wife is only now proud of America) when he told the crowd,

“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.’”

As BO becomes more of a world traveler (perhaps during his touted visits to Iraq and, yes, Iran), maybe he can find time to take a little car trip through Europe, before he comes back to the good ole USA. If he sees Europe first hand, perhaps he’ll understand how closely those countries are situated to each other, geographically.

It is entirely possible to drive through several countries during the same car trip, and not even break a sweat. French, German and Italian tourists routinely take little vacation day jaunts to neighboring ski resorts, or other attractions. Learning each other’s languages is as normal as breathing (and a matter of practical necessity) when the next country is no farther away than Vermont is from Maine.

Perhaps Monsieur Obama could also note how rigorously each of those individual countries insist on their own language, sovereignity, and traditions being preserved. Why else would those individual languages have continued so completely when each country is in such close proximity? Wouldn’t a single language, like “Frengermitalospanport”, or “Spanitalofrengerm”, be more convenient? Guess not!

Perhaps that’s one of the reasons why Europeans utilize English as a handy-dandy universal communication tool.

This objection to English as our official language is just one indicator of the direction Senor Obama wants to take this country. I’ve been wondering what his motivation is in being so opposed to immigration legislation and reform.

Can you say “amero”, anyone? (And if you don’t know what an ‘amero” is, for the sake of the future of the USA, please look it up! Learn about the prospect of the North American Union that’s staring us in the face!)

Maybe I’m just too provincial. However, since I have no intention of visiting France, especially with their disdain of everything “Americaine”, the only French I need to know, to live happily in the good ole USA, is “pie ala mode”.

2 Responses to “Pie A La Mode, Senor Obama”

1. Bill Chapman Says:
   

   I’m a citizen of the United Kingdom, so I won’t comment on the USA’s politics, but I hope you’ll allow me to comment on a linguistic matter.

   It would be good if Americans were to look more favourably on learning languages other than a form of English.

   I would like to argue the case for learning and using Esperanto. This is a planned language which belongs to no one country or group of states. Take a look at http://www.esperanto.net

   Esperanto works! I’ve used it in speech and writing in a dozen countries over recent years.
   Indeed, the language has some remarkable practical benefits. Personally, I’ve made friends around the world through Esperanto that I would never have been able to communicate with otherwise. And then there’s the Pasporta Servo, which provides free lodging and local information to Esperanto-speaking travellers in over 90 countries.

   What do you think?

2. Brennan Says:
   

   I agree, Bill, that Esperanto is a valuable tool. Too many times we have no common language with which to communicate with our global neighbors.

   Please understand that my objections to Senator Obama’s attempts to block English as our official language has to do with USA internal politics - and not a desire to shut out the rest of the world.

   We currently have terrible immigration issues in the USA, that are bankrupting our society, not to mention creating more and more hostilities.

   We have Spanish-speaking immigrants who not only refuse to learn English, they are settling in enclaves, displacing our legal citizens and agitating to take several USA states away from the US and give them back to Mexico.

   More importantly, we have politicians here who are deviously working towards forming a North American Union, with a new currency (the “amero”) in place. With this North American Union,Canada, the U.S. and Mexico would have NO borders between them.

   I can support the utilization of Esperanto and global communication wholeheartedly. I am opposed to the destruction of the USA.

   I don’t know how disastrous immigration policies are in the UK (we only get bits and snippets of your news here) but it is rapidly deteriorating here.

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