Barack Obama continues to display his lack of intelligence when not being guided by a teleprompter. It is true that children should at least be offered the chance to learn Spanish in elementary school. However when he insults Americans by saying that Europeans speak English while Americans don’t know French or Spanish, Obama does not understand one basic fact.

Europeans need to learn English because English is the dominant language in this world. English is the language one must learn if they are to succeed in whatever career they choose. It is imperative that Europeans learn English. There is no similar monetary motivation for Americans to learn French or Spanish.

This may be a sign of Obama growing up in Indonesia and not America. I would bet that this also contributes to his lack of knowledge in American history.

Here are the quotes:

“I don’t understand when people are going around worrying about, we need to have English only. They want to pass a law, we just, we want English only,” Obama told supporters in Powder Springs, Georgia on Tuesday. “Now, I agree that immigrants should learn English, I agree with this. 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.”

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He continued his thoughts by expressing embarrassment at Americans’ language skills compared to the Europeans. “You should be thinking about how can your child become bilingual,” he said. “We should have every child speaking more than one language. 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 beacoup, right?”

Obama has consistently opposed making English the official language. As an Illinois senator, Obama voted against a measure to make English the official language of the United States in June 2007. He was one of 34 senators who voted against the measure.