…but can’t decide what is best for his own.
While pandering to Hispanics yesterday, Barack Obama insisted that Americans needn’t concern themselves with immigrants learning English, but that American children should be learning Spanish.
“Instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English, because they will learn English, you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish,” he said. “We should have every child speaking more than one language.”
That’s why my official ballot is written in both English and Spanish.
Yet, while Obama knows what is best for your children, he seems to be a bit conflicted about what is best for his own.
Senator Obama has long insisted that his children be kept away from the glow of his presidential campaign. But on the recent 4th of July holiday Obama made a play to show what a normal, loving family he has by allowing the entertainment program Access Hollywood to interview his family, including his two children.
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., appears in a sit-down interview with his wife Michelle and daughters, Tuesday on “Access Hollywood,” a nightly entertainment news program that’s more apt to focus on the tawdry tales of Hollywood than the inner workings of Washington.
A hard-hitting interview on Obama’s plans for Iraq or the economy, it’s not.
But it does mark the first time the entire Obama family — including daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7 — sit down for a family interview, though the Obama campaign insists it wasn’t planned that way.
The first of the 4-part interview aired yesterday. By this morning Obama was deciding he had made a mistake. Michelle Malkin has the transcript:
LAUER: …some people said wait a minute, the senator is trying to have it both ways. On the one hand, you want to protect your private life. On the other hand, here you are sitting with your two daughters and allowing them to answer questions. Did you make the right call on that?
OBAMA: Uh, you know, I think that we, uh, got carried away in the moment. We were having a birthday party and everybody was laughing, and suddenly this thing cropped up. And, uh, I didn’t catch it quickly enough. And I was surprised by the attention it received as well.
LAUER: Senator, if you had to do it over again?
OBAMA: Yah, I won’t be doing it again and we won’t be doing it again.
Right. The thing just suddenly cropped up. Those cameras just suddenly appeared and his Secret Service detail just suddenly disappeared.
He was against it before he was for it before he was against it.
So is this judgement we can trust, change we can believe in, or progressive parenting?
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If he thinks that it as harmless, then that’s his to decide for his children. And it wasn’t like anything bad. Who are you to judge? He’s brought up his children way better than many fathers. Barack is a great father and a good leader.Obama for President!! Go visit WHYOBAMA08.ORG!!!!!!!!!
Oh my God, get a grip. Learning a second language is no more controversial than learning math. Its useful and good for the brain.
As for the sit down with his kids, who the hell cares?
Dan, you’re missing both points.
He didn’t initially say “second language,” he said “Spanish.” I am of the opinion that it is the responsibility of our immigrants, regardless of legal status, to learn the primary language spoken in this country—which is English. It should not be my, or my children’s responsibility to learn the languages of our immigrants. That is obviously what was being implied by his initial wording.
The sit down with the kids is yet another call toward his judgement and his daily reversals on issues from FISA, campaign financing, and now even his own family. “We got carried away in the moment.” And it led him to do a complete 180 on his principles concerning his children and the media. One that he regretted the next day. This doesn’t give me much confidence in his decision-making on unexpected issues.
Talk about 3:00 phone calls.
To answer Sally’s question, “Who are you to judge?”
I am a United States citizen, taxpayer, and registered voter.