Video Of The Day: Learn Spanish And Stop Embarrassing Me In Front Of Europe

09 Jul, 2008 by John Hawkins

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Obama starts off this clip by opposing English as an official language, seems to emphasize that teaching kids Spanish is more important than teaching them English, and then says Americans are an embarrassment because they only know one language when they go to Europe. It may be the one of the most grotesquely arrogant, out of touch displays that I have seen from someone running for President in the last decade.

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