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83 % Say Getting Immigrants To Speak English Is Higher Priority Than Creating Bilingual America
National Review Online ^ | 7/10/2008 | Staff

Posted on 07/10/2008 6:58:39 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist

Scott Rasmussen points to these striking results:

Barack Obama said yesterday that "instead of worrying whether immigrants can learn English," Americans "need to make sure your child can speak Spanish." A national telephone survey conducted last month by Rasmussen Reports found that U.S. voters overwhelmingly disagree with the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

Eighty-three percent (83%) place a higher priority on encouraging immigrants to speak English...

... A reader noted this is among the pieces of information that voters in Ohio, Pennsylvania and MIchigan need to hear before they make their decision in November.

(Excerpt) Read more at campaignspot.nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan; US: Ohio; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2008polls; aliens; barackobama; election; electionpresident; elections; englishfirst; mccain; nohispandering; obama; obamatruthfile
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
It ain't rocket science. If you know English you can communicate with anyone in America and a darned big chunk of the rest of the world. Once you've learned English knock yourself out and learn all the other languages you want to.

Obama is a complete dork to say "we have no problem with immigrants learning English." It wouldn't be an issue and there wouldn't be any "English First" legislation proposed if it weren't a problem. Pee Wee Herman has more gravitas than this jackass.

81 posted on 07/10/2008 10:44:50 PM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin '36 Olympics for murdering regimes Beijing '08)
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To: SuziQ

Suzi - bless you and your family. Well said, the difference between then and now. I believe it’s about love for this country, commitment and loyalty to it. And that separates good people like your predecessors from so many now (ILLEGALS in particular) who don’t have those feelings of patriotism.


82 posted on 07/10/2008 10:48:21 PM PDT by llandres (I'd rather be alive and bankrupt than dead and solvent)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

Just make sure that the Official language is English”

And yes, this is my point as well - Obama was dead wrong in his speech when he falsely stated that Americans “want English only”. How stupid - no, of course not. We just want the Official Language of our country to be English.

Why is everything like this such a problem here? Not in any other country. Pretty much all countries have an “official language”.


83 posted on 07/10/2008 10:54:01 PM PDT by llandres (I'd rather be alive and bankrupt than dead and solvent)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

“Obama is actually worse than McCain on the issue of illegal immigration.”

Amnesty is amnesty, no matter who it is pulling the trigger on America. Drivers licenses? LOL, since when are drivers licenses the perview of the POTUS?


84 posted on 07/10/2008 10:54:24 PM PDT by Grunthor (Mccain praised pro-illegal protests saying that they could force the laws to be liberalized)
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To: Carry_Okie
With comments this dumb already he may not even make it to the convention.

Is it possible that Super Pimp is just a stalking horse for Hillary? McCain and the RNC will spend all this time shadow boxing Obama and dropping all research and opposition to the Hildebeast. Obama exposes himself to be a complete lightweight and Hillary takes the nomination at the convention. No big slight to Obama in the long run he just wasn't ready. Maybe after Hill's eight.

85 posted on 07/10/2008 10:54:37 PM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin '36 Olympics for murdering regimes Beijing '08)
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To: patriot08

“What say I?
Bese mi asno, obama.”

What I say?
Mame mi verga, obama.


86 posted on 07/10/2008 11:42:26 PM PDT by awaken2spirit (When one fornicates with ignorance, the result of that union is chaos.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

I wouldn’t move to France and expect everyone to start speaking English. Even if I only planned visiting another country, I would at least try to learn a few basic phrases in the native language.


87 posted on 07/10/2008 11:47:22 PM PDT by red state girl (never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

If I write GOD on the ballot, they’ll probably give the vote to Obama.


88 posted on 07/10/2008 11:52:35 PM PDT by MaxMax (I'll welcome death when God calls me. Until then, the fight is on)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

89 posted on 07/10/2008 11:52:48 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42 - 12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
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To: llandres

I’m sure both of his kids speak fluent Spanish though. Como se dice hypocrisy?


90 posted on 07/11/2008 12:04:13 AM PDT by red state girl (never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never)
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To: llandres

“The thing is, he makes dumb comments like this almost daily, yet “they” don’t care or seem to notice. Lots of koolaid been served out there, for quite some time. Still...he just may majorly f**k up yet. I haven’t given up hope.”

I do find that very disturbing as well. It’s as if people so want to be hypnotized by this man, that they willingly suspend what their eyes and ears could tell them. Drink the Kool-Aid and we will be delivered into the promised land. And many did drink, not realizing that the Kool-Aid is a Kavorkian Cocktail. Problem is, these folks just plain don’t want to notice. A magician uses misdirection as a means of directing his audience to see what he wants them to see. And people are mesmerized by magic when performed by a master magician. I have to admit Obama is very good. Too bad so many of the young folk have no history other than what they may have read in a book or were taught in school. I think maybe people don’t want to wake up because they are enjoying the dream too much.


91 posted on 07/11/2008 12:40:58 AM PDT by awaken2spirit (When one fornicates with ignorance, the result of that union is chaos.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

We should do all we can to accommodate tourists and those visiting this beautiful country with respect to language. Yet, before a citizen of another country is even considered for immigration here; speaking English should be a prerequisite.

Illegals need to go home, period. Immigration numbers should be lowered to 200k a year, but that is another issue altogether. Yeah, I know, America was built on immigration. Built is past tense, and everyone can’t live here.


92 posted on 07/11/2008 1:22:55 AM PDT by WildcatClan (Our Sun, The Hottiest Planet!)
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To: Diogenesis

Is that the Zimmerman Telegram ?


93 posted on 07/11/2008 1:42:53 AM PDT by happygrl
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To: WildcatClan

Immigration quotas were changed years ago. The Liberals have been working hard to deny Europeans. Review all immigration acts since 1965.


94 posted on 07/11/2008 1:55:07 AM PDT by Lumper20
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To: happygrl

si.


95 posted on 07/11/2008 2:41:01 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
"Barack Obama said yesterday that "instead of worrying whether immigrants can learn English," Americans "need to make sure your child can speak Spanish."

Memo to snobama-messiah: STHU and kiss my cold instant grits. I'll learn Spanish the day hell freezes over. If these illegal alien invaders and their La Raza cohorts don't want to learn English and become American, they should get the hell out. Other immigrant groups from way back came to the USA and wanted to become Americans, learn English and were damn proud and happy to do so! Its been the invasion of south of the border type and their La Raza enablers who refuse to learn English, become American citizens like every other immigrant group, and force their culture and language down our throats that cause all the problems. Let them come here legally, learn English, and become American like every other immigrant group that has come to the USA since 1776 or they can STHU, GTHO, and take La Raza and all the other radical "avocacy" groups out with them!
96 posted on 07/11/2008 4:15:21 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA ("When I was a boy, America was a better place" - Dennis Prager)
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To: LukeL
" am sick and tired of having to state my language when I call any 800 number."

Amen and right on! You're not alone in feeling that way!
97 posted on 07/11/2008 4:16:18 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA ("When I was a boy, America was a better place" - Dennis Prager)
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To: TADSLOS

Ain’t that the truth!


98 posted on 07/11/2008 4:17:59 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA ("When I was a boy, America was a better place" - Dennis Prager)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
What say you?

Legal immigrants must speak English.

Illegals must LEAVE!

99 posted on 07/11/2008 7:21:39 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (A vote for any Democrat from BO on down the ticket is a vote for $10 a gallon gas.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
McCain doesn't need to support drivers licenses for Illegal Aliens because when he's finished with his “comprehensive immigration reform” there will no longer be any such thing as an Illegal Alien.
100 posted on 07/11/2008 8:19:26 AM PDT by HenpeckedCon (Deport them all... Let God sort them out!)
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