Posted on 04/05/2009 2:16:20 PM PDT by PghBaldy
Q Sonja Sagmeister from a little country, Austria, from Austrian Television. Mr. President, you said you came here to learn and to listen. So a quite personal question -- what did you learn from your personal talk with the European leaders? And did this change in a certain way your views on Europe and its politics?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: It's an interesting question. I had already formed relationships with many of them. ... There's a lot of -- I don't know what the term is in Austrian -- wheeling and dealing -- and, you know, people are pursuing their interests, and everybody has their own particular issues and their own particular politics.
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There is a huge cult out there, not only Obamaniacs, but people in the media and in politics, who have subscribed to the idea that Obama is a genius with one of the highest IQs in history.
This in spite of the fact that no proof has ever been put forward to back this up. There is no metric to prove it, no IQ test. He has kept his grades secret and the media forbid any publishing of his transcripts.
To the contrary, there is much anecdotal evidence that he is stupid - very stupid. Think 57 states, the Austrian language, his ignorance when the teleprompter is gone.
People wonder how a cultured, educated nation like Germany could have fallen under the spell of a megalomaniac like Hitler whose “Mein Kampf” was treated like a bible in spite of the idiotic stuff in it. Well just look around you, it’s happening here, and for the media and inside the Beltway elites it’s just fine with them.
When happens this tyranny’s Kristalnacht? They have already come for the executives, and people did nothing. They have already come for the unborn, and people (even Notre Dame) did nothing. They are coming for the talk radio hosts and their listeners. How soon till they come for you?
Heil Obama.
Doe a Deer...The Sound Of Music Ping...LOL
You know, it’s embarrassing — 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, “Merci beaucoup.” Right?--Barack Hussein Obama
Who is mocking who now, Barry? Austrian, a language...even this embarassing American knows better than that!!
Same language, just a different accent. Also, only the australians have kangaroos.
There almost is. :-)
Soros
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A better source would be the CIA Factbook, which says:
Languages: German (official nationwide) 88.6%, Turkish 2.3%, Serbian 2.2%, Croatian (official in Burgenland) 1.6%, other (includes Slovene, official in Carinthia, and Hungarian, official in Burgenland) 5.3% (2001 census)
Oh my... That’s news to me.
Did someone say “Harvard”?
Dan Quayle said something just as dumb, i.e.learning Latin before visiting Latin American countries, and it led the news and made skit after skit on comedy shows and late night TV.
Hussein is a special olympian.
"What languages do austria speak?
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Austrian people speak Austrian, which is very close to German. So they can probably speak and understand German without any difficulty.
Austrian is a language like American is a language (which is to say, it isn't.) It's at best a dialect.
My sources?
Languages: German (official nationwide) 88.6%, Turkish 2.3%, Serbian 2.2%, Croatian (official in Burgenland) 1.6%, other (includes Slovene, official in Carinthia, and Hungarian, official in Burgenland) 5.3% (2001 census)
or, if you trust the CIA as much as anybody else should (which is to say, not at all) how about the Austrian Embassy to the U.S.A.:
Official Languages: German, locally also Slovene, Hungarian, and Croatian
Anything that starts with "Wiki" should probably not be trusted implicitly where His Ohness is concerned.
AUSTRIA — Britannica Student Encyclopedia
http://student.britannica.com/comptons/atlas?geogId=19
Official name Republik Österreich (Republic of Austria)
Form of government federal state with two legislative houses (Federal Council [62]; National Council [183])
Chief of state President
Head of government Chancellor
Capital Vienna
Official language German
Official religion none
Monetary unit euro (€)
Population estimate (2008) 8,338,000
Total area (sq mi) 32,383
Total area (sq km) 83,871
THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF AUSTRIA ISN'T AUSTRIAN... It is GERMAN.
[It's sort of like Spanish — In Mexico if you speak Castillian Spanish (the form spoken in Spain, and taught in most schools), Mexicans will be able to understand you, but many of the words are a bit different when you learn MEXICAN Spanish. But, it's ALL called “Spanish”.]
Wiki must have wrote that last night to cover obama’s rear.
Came here just for that quote.
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