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To: MineralMan
Nobody's being forced to see the site in Spanish.

I speak and read Spanish...yet disagree with your premise on this one. There are ways to deliver the White House message to other countries without appearing to cravenly cater to people who are breaking our nation's immigration laws.

Making bilingualism an official government policy is a horrible idea...just look at the Canadian fiasco that promotes a separatist movement.

There was a stronger argument on behalf of German being an official language in the late 1700s than there is for Spanish today based on the percentage of Americans who spoke German. Yet the Founding Fathers did not grab their ankles in capitulation on the issue...and any protests like we saw this past month would have been met with soldiers on the streets.

12 posted on 04/22/2006 1:14:56 PM PDT by peyton randolph (Time for an electoral revolution where the ballot box is the guillotine)
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To: peyton randolph

"I speak and read Spanish...yet disagree with your premise on this one. There are ways to deliver the White House message to other countries without appearing to cravenly cater to people who are breaking our nation's immigration laws. "

As do I. My point was that the site could be presented in several languages, to help people outside the country have access to it. Having only a Spanish version makes it pretty clear what the goal is.


13 posted on 04/22/2006 1:27:49 PM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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