Obama: I Can’t Speak French. So How Come You Can’t Speak French?
By Uppity Woman on July 9, 2008 at 3:35 PM in Barack Obama, China, Communism, Current Affairs, Elitism, Foreign affairs, Hispanic vote, Marxism, Pakistan
Comrade Barack Obama once again shows how little of his comfort zone is in America. He recently chided Americans who do not speak other languages. He snickered at them and said that when they go to Europe the only thing they can say in French is “Merci beaucoup“.
It’s…It’s…embarrassing when.. when …uh… [sic] Europeans come over here, they all speak English, they speak French, they speak German. And then we go over to Europe and [snicker] all we can say is Merci beaucoup.
What an insulting Asshat™ this guy is. Worse yet, to use an American expression: He should talk! He struggled with the language of a country he was living in and he has the Audacity and Arrogance™ to snort at others in America for being unable to speak other languages while simply visiting other countries.
Obama has claimed on numerous occasions to have become fluent in Indonesian in six months. Yet those who knew him disputed that during recent interviews.
Israella Pareira Darmawan, Obama’s 1st-grade teacher, said she attempted to help him learn the Indonesian language by going over pronunciation and vowel sounds. He struggled greatly with the foreign language, she said, and with his studies as a result.
As far as I can see, Comrade Obama is only capable of saying one phrase in other languages: Yes We Can. Even with that one line, his Spanish was atrocious, so I would like to know how it is that he thinks he can continually make fun of the country he wants to be President of and get away with it? Comrade, who were you referring to? Those “bitter hicks” with guns who work from sun-up to sun-down to provide you with your Whole Foods selection? Are you referring to those “downscale” voters who are too busy to learn other languages because they are working two jobs just to make ends meet–while they serve arrogant snotty asses like you?
Comrade, did it ever occur to Arrogant Asshat You that you insulted Hispanic Americans in this country who are struggling with our most difficult language that has an exception to nearly every grammar rule? Of course not! You are far too arrogant and self-impressed for that!
Speaking of languages of countries you visit without speaking their language: I also understand that Barack Obama plans on holding fundraisers in China. I am not surprised, considering he seems to be the darling of Socialists, Communists, Marxists, Maoists, Theocracies and lovers of Lenin and Stalin the World Over. The thing is, many Americans live in China. This is because China has stolen so many of our jobs. I would think that as a so-called Democrat, Obama would be more concerned with bringing these folks and their jobs back to America, but true to what he is, he is more concerned with getting their money.
I also understand that the Comrade has a half brother in China, named Mark. His father sure did get around, having left kids everywhere, it seems. This must be where he inherited his “respect” for women. Perhaps his brother will be helping him raise funds and set him up to talk to some Government Leaders there to get tips on how to run America. More importantly, I was wondering if Obama plans to pay a visit to China, and if so, will he be speaking Chinese?
Come to think of it, the only relative he has in the USA where he wants to Reign Supreme is his Typical White Grandmother, and he tossed her under the bus months ago. While Barack Obama enjoys pretending to be as great and as American as JFK, I can tell you for certain that when the truly great JFK was President, you could find all of his family in Hyannisport very easily on any given weekend. Nobody was hidden and JFK was proud to pubilicly speak of them and name them. Why is it, Barack Obama never speaks of the relatives he has all over the world? Why is it we have to go hunting for them? When he visits them in their respective countries, does he speak their language or does he speak English? This seems to be a fair question, don’t you think?
If Barack Obama thinks everyone else in America who doesn’t speak the language when he or she visits another country is worth snickering at, then should he not be able to speak the language of every place he has visited? For example, I know that Barack Obama has visited one of his favorite places where some of his biggest fundraisers are citizens: Pakistan. I was wondering, does Barack Obama speak their language?
Barack Obama has a stick up his ass and the most amusing part of that is he has no right to have a stick up his ass. He is a mediocre man with minimal achievements, the greatest of them is his great success at working the Chicago Thug Political Machine and sticking his nose in the air, pretending he is above everybody and everything.
He is so without substance of his own, that he spends most of his time pretending he is the equal to great men such as RFK, JFK, MLK, FDR and Lincoln. Yet, he parades himself as Above The Rest - ad nauseum.
I wonder exactly how many more Americans he insulted by laughing at America again–this time for speaking only one language: The language of the country in which he is running for President.
While this Out of Touch Snot is busy telling everyone in America to go learn another language, Somebody also needs to explain to Comrade Obama that, in spite of his attitude that the country he wants to become Czar of is inferior to the places he really loves–such as the Middle East, English is the preferred language of business communication World-Wide.
While it certainly does open doors for people to learn other languages, Comrade Obama might be more helpful to the USA if he chastises many of his own young followers for their own communication problems with the English language. In fact, back when I could stand to listen to him, I heard The Comrade Himself butcher the use of verbs with respect to singular and plural. So, comrade, try telling your worshippers to focus on their own language first before shipping them off to butcher another country’s language. Thanks!
Having spent a fair amount of my life in Academia before moving to the Real World, I get the sense that Obama needs to permanently assign himself to the Faculty Lounge instead of running for President of The United States. His arrogance and snottiness with respect to the Real World is simply staggering. He is so snotty, he can’t even help himself. Insults just roll right off his tongue.
Comrade, we are truly sorry that so many Stupid Americans just don’t speak French and German. We all know that you are classy and we are not.
It’s a wonder you put up with this country at all, you are just too damned superior for us! Let us Worship You for that.
Say! I have an idea! Comrade Obama! We are sorry our country “embarrasses” you so much! This might come as a huge surprise to Snotty You, but you embarrass plenty of us as well! Perhaps you would be more comfortable running for President of France. I know many of us here in America would be more comfortable with that thought. For sure, you would hear millions of us say, Merci Beaucoup.
By the way, speaking of embarrassing: It’s embarrassing to listen to a Presidential Candidate act like a snob when he can’t even put two sentences together sans teleprompter without saying “uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh………ahhhhhhhhhhh” every sixty seconds. Just saying!
So tell us, Comrade, do you speak French and German? Just wondering. If not, get on it, Mr. Lead-By-Example! Merci Beaucoup!
thanks for that…
that was the funniest headline i have read in a long time…
heh heh…
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Would somebody tell him planes leave for Kenya every day. If he can’t stand to hang around here with us ignorant hillbillies, maybe he should get on one.
And don’t axe him about his baby mama.
Yes ! Barack Hussein Obama,Jr. will be happier among his large Kenyan family members.He was happy to meet his 6 half-brothers and sisters from 4 different mothers during his first visit in 1985.Did he converse to them in English or Kenyan language?
Hillary or McCain ‘08
GOD SAVE AMERICA!!
Just for the record, there is NO such thing as a “Kenyan language”. Kenya’s official language is Swahili (or, more properly, Kiswahili) but English is also widely used.
Wikipedia indicates that there are 62 languages used in the country (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Kenya ).
Just so you know, Obamabutt, ENGLISH is the international language, as any pilot in the world will tell you. And before you go off to other lands, first you should master the English language, before foreigners put you to shame in your own native tongue. [Well, we are assuming it is your native tongue; depends however on what country you were actually born in.]
Other than as an intellectual exercise, why would an American need to learn another language?
“Modern English, sometimes described as the first global lingua franca, is the dominant international language in communications, science, business, aviation, entertainment, radio and diplomacy.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#Significance
“It is the primary language of world trade, business and management. It is the language of global travel, tourism and hospitality. It is the international language of science and medicine. It is the language of diplomacy and international cooperation. It is the language of global banking and Third World development. It is the dominant language in all forms of international media and publishing. Although many languages can now reach around the world cheaply over the Internet and satellite broadcasting, it is English that consistently reaches the biggest global audiences. English is the language of sports and glamour: both the Olympics and the Miss Universe pageant use English as the official language. It is the ecumenical language of the World Council of Churches.”
“According to some forecasts, within just a few decades more Chinese will be able to speak English than in the rest of the world combined. Already, more people speak English as a second language in India than in all of Britain, where the language began.”
http://languageinstinct.blogspot.com/2006/09/languages-of-world-two-ways-to-triumph.html
Instead of bothering with a second language, perhaps channeling, instead, that energy and effort into other fields of study would yield better results.
I think instead of saying merci beaucoup, Obama should have said quanta costa!
For that is what we all will be saying if he gets elected.
Michele best invest in the rosetta stone language program..QUICK before he leaves for overseas…
He now regrets his kids and ‘hollywood’ just like he’ll regret his trip to the mideast when he gets back…does he have a twin brother or sumpin? Maybe early alzehiemers..
NOBAMA!
Ah - you beat me to the Rosetta Stone suggestion.
People in other countries only care whether or not you try to talk to them in their own language. It is the arrogant Americans who won’t even try that get the cold shoulder. I have found almost without fail the citizens of other countries to be most kind and generous.
I am so very tired of this fake putting down our country. He does not have my permission to be embarrassed for me.
Since we have a severe second language problem in the Intelligence, Law Enforcement and State department, as I am sure Sibel Edmond will tell you, can I have the Rosetta Stone language program for free then BO?
I have installed it in the course of my work and it would be really great to have a copy. I want to learn Pashto and Arabic….at least well enough to understand what is being said next to me on the GG to JFK or read a website. Hell, I will even read the Polish version of the NY Post while gazing at the floor of the subway car. Please?
Both my parents wrote for a living and man was I ever scrutinized. I just had to pass it on to my children.
From the vanishing North American native tongues to the classics, it is critical that America’s future is maintained by the diversity of language. The ties that bind us as a nation are spoken in English, That is just the way is.
As of today, AK,CA,ID,UT,AZ,ND,NE,KS,IA,MO,AR,LA,WI,IL,MS,IN,KY,TN,AL,NH,MA,VA,NC,SC,GA, FL have English as the Official Language with 10 more states with bills moving in the statehouses.
zogby; 83% of respondents want English to be the Official Language 75% of Spanish speaking people responding want the same. CNN
Funny piece….loved the image of him in the faculty lounge. *haha
Looks like we’re not the only ones to think Obambi is a little arrogant and pushy!
Merkel uneasy over Obama Brandenburg Gate address
Associated Press
Published: Wednesday July 9, 2008
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has signaled unease over the prospect of a possible speech by Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama at Berlin’s historic Brandenburg Gate, a spokesman said Wednesday.
Merkel has “only limited understanding for using the Brandenburg Gate as an election campaign backdrop, as it were, and has expressed skepticism about pursuing such plans,” Thomas Steg, a spokesman for the chancellor, told reporters.
However, Steg stressed that the chancellor is “very happy” for Obama to visit Germany and meet her and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Berlin city officials said this week that members of the Democratic candidate’s campaign had contacted them about what permission and security issues would need to be resolved before Obama could speak in front of the monument.
The Obama campaign has refused to provide specifics on his plans during an upcoming visit to Europe and the Middle East, including the candidate’s interest in a possible event at the Brandenburg Gate.
“Senator Obama looks forward to his visit to Germany and his opportunity to meet with the chancellor,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said. “He has considered several sites for a possible speech, and he will choose one that makes most sense for him and his German hosts.”
The gate stood for 28 years behind the Berlin Wall in communist East Germany’s heavily fortified border zone. Probably the capital’s best-known monument, it was once a symbol of Germany’s Cold War division and now stands for its reunification.
Steg noted that the Brandenburg Gate has become “a place with a particular exclusivity, intensity and symbolism” in view of past speeches by sitting U.S. presidents and events such as a large rally in solidarity with the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
As a result, he said Merkel has voiced “great skepticism as to whether it is appropriate to bring an election campaign being fought not in Germany but in the United States to the Brandenburg Gate.”
Steg said that “no German (chancellor) candidate would think of using (Washington’s) National Mall or Red Square in Moscow for rallies, because it would be considered inappropriate.”
He stressed that giving permission to use the venue is a matter not for Merkel’s government, but for Berlin city authorities. Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit said Tuesday that he would be “delighted” for Obama to appear at the Brandenburg Gate or elsewhere.
In a famous 1987 speech that used the gate as a backdrop, President Reagan urged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “open this gate” and “tear down this wall.”
In 1994, four years after German reunification, President Clinton spoke on the other, formerly eastern, side of the gate - declaring that “Berlin is free.”
Organizers of Obama’s campaign have said he is planning two foreign trips this summer, including stops in the Middle East and major European capitals, in an effort to boost his foreign policy credentials as he prepares for the November election against Republican John McCain.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Jens Ploetner said there had been contacts with the German Embassy in Washington regarding Obama’s trip. He said that, while German officials suggested that he could visit landmarks such as Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial, the Cold War-era Checkpoint Charlie border crossing and the Brandenburg Gate, they had made no recommendations on any venue for a possible Obama speech.
I think it’s fine provided Obama speaks in German, as would be appropriate.
AH HAH AHHAHA AH HAHAHAHHAHA!!!!11!!!!!!!1!!
now that was funny…
tee hee….
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
He wants to return to where his Uncle freed all the Jews–from his Navy ship.
Is that guy still in the attic by the way? He seems to keep most of his relatives in the attic.
lol*…..you’re on a roll today!
This should be his first sentence for the German people,
“Wenn meine Lippen bewegen, bin ich lügen.”
If my lips are moving, I’m lying.
“Sie gehen girll”
or as us dumb Americans would say “you go girl”
Du gehen mädchen.
Wir haben unsere eigenen kleinen Verein hier.
Good for Merkel that she acknowledges there is still an election going on. How did word get out about this without clearing it with the German government first?
Arrogance?
He doen’t think anything is inapproprite of his wonderful self.
And bo, I’m sick of seeing the inside of your nostrils. It’s nauseating.
Now that Obama has fulfilled his mission here, to piss off and offend every race, every nationality, every religious group. And seeing that there is not much more room left under the bus. He can now get on his “Change” jet and visit every country, so he can fulfill his purpose of being. He can now begin to piss off and offend all foreign nations. There is lots and lots of room under a jet.
This man is in the process of starting World War 3. And nobody is stopping him……..
Wait, he can’t go to Germany yet. He hasn’t pissed off our Asian population yet.
Si se puede!
It isn’t a translation of Obama’s slogan, it was a slogan a few years back for the Presidential elections in Mexico.
He just uses it.
CESAR CHAVEZ….United Farm Workers.
They used it to good effect.
Don’t buy non-union grapes….lettuce…etc.
I say “Don’t buy a bullshitting, empty suit candidate!”
Si se puede!
I lived in California then. It worked very well.
Grapes and lettuce sales went way down.
And they endorsed Hillary!
It was Cesar Chavez’ Slogan for The United Farm Workers.
Just another thing he stole from someone.
I just went to the youtube video (the link for this article) and there are already multiple comments from obamabots saying that Obama is right! Funny how quickly the bots pounce on things that show the true Barry.
How dare he challenge Americans to learn! Won’t somebody please think of the children!
He should challenge himself.
He’s just a snob. Nothing new about that observation.
Just another elitist running for office as a Democrat. Nothing new about that, either.
Hopefully, we’ll get to see yet another elitist lose the election and say, “nothing new about that either.”
Gee, how many languages can the magic one speak?
My history prof. speaks 40.
I’m jealous, your Professor is like a mini UN all inside one head…
I wonder what it is like to think in 40 different languages?
I do wonder. He’s Hungarian, btw.
For such an elite snob, he hasn’t traveled the world much - essentially, it was Africa to visit the land of his much-lauded father, the middle East and muslim countries and of course, as a child he was in Indonesia.
He’s never been to Europe. Can you believe that? Nor to the orient (Japan, China, Hong Kong) nor to Australia. How dare him throw that snotty attitude around when he himself couldn’t even master a language when immersed in it as a child?
Remember - Bush had never been out of the US when he was elected President. Man, has he been impressive when it comes to foreign policy and the ability to work with those of other countries. Obama would be just a leftist version of Bush.
As for me, I personally speak a smattering of Spanish, French and Italian and I learned it as a courtesy when I was traveling in those countries. I learned a very basic amount of Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin) but it was difficult. Still as a courtesy, when I’m in another country I attempt to make an attempt. It shows respect. I suspect Obama would never learn to show respect. He thinks he’s the one that deserves all respect.
so he is giving his speech in German then?
i don’t think so…
so the thing with being a leader is you actually have to do something that warrants people respecting you…
if Baracktrack spoke several languages then i think he would have a point…
but the reality is he is a simplton criminal…
a. hillary
b. mccain
america first!
Won’t you please think of something else to say? I’m tired of “Won’t somebody please think of the children!”
Voir, c’est croire.
Wasn’t that some punchline from the republicans before?
That’s so funny because the bots can’t evern speak english well.
Bonjour, Cheese-eating surrender monkeys!
Stupid French people. Are we still calling french fries Freedom Fries, I get confused sometimes? USA! USA! USA!.
You’re always confused. Just dummy up with a bag of Cheetohs and save your brain the strain.
No way, the mascot for Cheetos is a Cheetah. (Found in Africa.) I only eat food with animal mascots native the the U.S. I don’t eat Swedish Fish either.
Country before Snackies!
NoCheetos, No way 08!
You can eat this PUMA.
Send pic.
OK….you get a point for funny. LOL*
Thanks Annin.
You might want to brush up on your English … the screen name is “Ann in CA” … like Ann in California …. nice work, sfb
Obama outsourcing his trolls should tell you what he has in store for Americans’ jobs.
http://www.nataliedee.com/040506/cat-ass.jpg
But what about animal crackers?
What do you have against them?
Did you know that while cheetahs are very fast in a sprint they have very little staying power. hmmmmm
Hey I like France. They do have a love affair with cheese though.
la fromage….fondue!!!
ahh the 70s!!!
Look, I can’t stand the guy, but he’s right about this issue (and I say this as someone who’s been “learning” Spanish for the last 50 years and still can barely manage a rudimentary sentence or two.
One of my favorite jokes goes something like this:
Q: What do you call someone who speaks three languages? A: Trilingual.
Q: What do you call someone who speaks two languages? A: Bilingual.
Q: What do you call someone who speaks one language? A: An American.
Is this somehow something that is important in a presidential election? Aren’t you tired yet of hearing what Obama thinks a “good American” looks like? I for one am. A good American doesn’t sit in a church whose spiritual leader says that we brought 911 down on ourselves and asks God to Damn us! If I could manage to make myself any LESS like Obama, I would make that my personal goal!
Amen. He needs to clean up his own life first.
I’d tell him to see to his own backyard, but that’s an old racist joke.
Will he have to hang out outside the Oval office to smoke his cigarettes?
What a fucking transcontinental - wannbe ass kisser is Senator Hope-a-Dope.
Given that our bibles, flags and the instructions on the boxes our ammunition is packed in are all in American English, Why Bother?
Simply another ploy to endear himself with SAAB-drving, Grey Poupon-eating, latte-drinking shitknockers who think that Scarsdale is, “the sticks,” and bemoan the unavailability of a good Bechamel east of the Hamptons.
Drag him out here to the trans-Mississippian west, and let’s see how he does in Japanese, coupla Chinese dialects and some Border Spanish.
And, before the Trolls crank up, I taught American History in France for a year, in French, NOT on a military reservation, and was a tour guide at van Gogh’s in Arles.
I’m certain that
Sasquatch Bigfoot Winnie MandelaMichelle knows where Arles is located.‘Bout the middle of Tuscany, right?
Do those SAAB drivers know they are really driving a GM product built on a platform shared with Chevy?
Yeah, this is the guy who chairs the Senate Foreign Affairs European Subcommittee and never held a NATO meeting or visited the continent. He was waiting until he could learn to order in a restaurant. “Avez-vous du Grey Poupon?”
(chitlin joke censored, because SOME shots are just TOO cheap!)
I will bring the barrel if you bring the fish Fred C. Dobbs, deal?
The cheap shots we can get at the local pub across the lake from Zurich…Love me some Dole wine!
For one thing, the syntax of English is a hodge podge of many languages. This is why it is easier for a person who speaks French to learn Italian. The romance languages have some sense of similarity. But English took its syntax from many languages.
I happen to think that learning a second language should be a choice, and I especially think it’s not a presidential candidate’s place to be snickering over those who don’t know a second language…especially considering he hasn’t seemed to mention knowing any of these languages himself.
He’s an arrogant ass.
He probably thinks that entrepreneur is English ….
“The problem with the French is that they have no word for, ‘entrepreneur!’” - The Addled Puppet Reagan
““The problem with the French is that they have no word for, ‘entrepreneur!’” - The Addled Puppet Reagan”
Actually, this quote is attributed to Bush, and in either case, its a phony quote. Neither man said it:
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/bush.asp
LOL Beebop!!
and UPPITY some serious SNARK! I loved it!
roflol - hysterical!
he is not right connecting this issue to illegal immigration, he is conflating two totally different issues
in the border states we spend an increidble amount of our school budgets on ESL english as a second language, which is fine, but then we run out of money for MATH and SCIENCE
want to fund languages? GREAT!!
Do it EARLY so we MASTER it, GREAT!!
give us the money for MATH and SCIENCE first, we have no engineers…….
and DONT conflate this with the costs of ESL to border state budgets which is the illegal immigration argument he is puling out and isolating and calling it cultural diversity..
I CALL BULLSHIT
How about Bawack gets the 50% dropout rate in Chicago down some first, how about that?
I wonder just how Merkel “signalled unease?” Probably by saying something like, “Mein Gott, what an asshole!”
The Germans really don’t think that Obama cares about their sensitivities when he is using their most famous landmark for a hanky, do they?
With the DNC is in hock up to BO’s eyeballs, can’t BO just go to Hollywood and green screen it, like his 2002 speech?
I mean it would save a whole bunch of money and time…Does anyone know if the American taxpayer is on the hook for this dog and donkey show?
Here’s my current sweet nightmare for BO…He goes to Europe and his BC is found to reveal his citizenship was obtained fradulently and the U.S. won’t let him back in….
No, of course, taxpayers don’t pay for it. The DNC pays for it.
I haven’t seen where they have even met their original commitments to Denver, so this strikes me as being beyond the budget.
To me? Couldn’t care less. He can bus in a million if he wishes.
We all know his showy tricks by now.
In the meantime, McCain is pulling away in MO. Poll today shows him up by 5.
Hillary Clinton and Caroline Kennedy are flying to New York with Obama tonight. Just Reported on Greta. What is she doing?
going to a Hillary supporter fund raiser..it will not go over too big
I hope she’s is shaking CK and trying to bring her to her senses.
What, they left Paris Hilton and Oprah the Hutt behind?
I took French for a couple years and never learned “okie dokie,” “hoodwinked,” or “bamboozled.” I wonder if there is a French version of the Urban Dictionary?
“okie dokie” is Swedish. That is the Swedish phrase used by Ulla in The Producers- The Movie Musical.
In French, they say, “C’est cool, ma poule” instead of “Okie dokie.”
I prefer “lache moi, j’te frappe.”
That’s Obama at the core.
Donkeypunch 08
I have 3 years of French and still, I most often use:
Merde!!
Sacre Bleu!!
and handy in the upcoming totalitarian regime will be:
J’accuse!!!!
When is Bawack paying for our cultural diversity trips to Europe??!! I wanna go!!!!
Merkel Chides Obama for ‘Electioneering’ Abroad
Conservative German Chancellor Angela Merkel today sternly warned Sen. Barack Obama against speaking at Berlin’s famed Brandenburg Gate when he passes through Europe later in the month, with her spokesman telling reporters that such “electioneering” would be “inappropriate” at a site of such historical significance. PISSING OFF PEOPLE IN GERMANY
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/09/merkel_chides_obama_for_electi.html
Whats wrong in speaking English??Weather Obama like it or not English is a universal language.I came from Asia..I speaks malay,Indonesia,a bit of Chinese and abit of Hindu and I learn to speaks German 10 years ago..I have forgotten how to speak it as I have noone to speak with in Asia…But when I travel…They speaks English except for Poor Indonesia people…I went to Australia they speaks English..when to Thailand and Japan they speaks English..My brother in law who works for Norwegian oil ompany,who recently spent time in Norway,German and Russia,hey they communicate English with him.To learn a second language is best when you have someone to communicate with….Are all Americans going to migrate to French or Germans to work or they just going there to visit???
I hope Merkel just says nein.
Do you think he had to look up, “sheisskopf,” in his German-American dictionary?
LOL