Americans Are Being Forced To Learn Spanish!

by William Gheen
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC
www.alipac.us

We recently sent out a press release condemning Presidential candidate Barack Obama's statements in a video on Youtube, "Instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English, they will learn English, you need to make sure your child speaks Spanish" and the reaction and bias in print media was astounding.

Our press release was titled "Obama Steps on Political Land Mine" and it pointed out that a recent poll run by one of the nation's top polling firms, Rasmussen Reports, indicated that Obama's stance on this issue was out of line with over 80% of the American public. Each print media report in defense of Obama, excluded this poll we cited from their reports. Some even went so far as to falsely credit our organization ALIPAC as making the statement, "Voters Reject Obama's call for Bilingualism", when we never made this statement. On our website at alipac.us this title is clearly marked as the publicized title of the release of the Rasmussen Report!

This Rasumussen Report states, "Eighty-three percent (83%) place a higher priority on encouraging immigrants to speak English as their primary language. Just 13% take the opposite view and say it is more important for Americans to learn other languages." We feel certain that even less than 13% of voters would agree that it is important for us to learn Spanish specifically.

We never said it was bad for children to learn other languages. We never claimed we were against language electives for school children, as these biased media reports claim. What our press release said was that we do not feel Americans should make sure their children learn Spanish! We also oppose America being turned into a bilingual society like Canada and the polls tell us we are taking the stance that a super majority of Americans favor on this issue.

We also did not appreciate Senator Obama's ridicule of Americans visiting Europe as tourists without learning local languages. It is outrageous that a candidate for President would ridicule Americans on this topic, especially when he speaks only one language. Did Obama fail to notice that we have millions of illegal aliens in America, not tourists, who flagrantly speak Spanish without regard or respect for America's majority? Why would anyone in their right mind criticize Americans for going to Europe without learning French or force our children to adopt the language of millions of illegal aliens?

Obama responded quickly, since his office was deluged with calls from Americans whom were offended by his comments. He issued this statement to divert attention away from his "learn Spanish" comments.

CBS Reports "Obama brushed off the criticism today, saying that immigrants should learn English but that Americans should learn a foreign language as well. 'You know, this is an example of some of the problems we get into when somebody attacks you for saying the truth,' he said, 'which is we should want children with more knowledge.'â€