Obama wants everyone to speak Spanish

Anybody who thinks he's not left-wing (as opposed to merely liberal) needs to follow Barack Obama more closely:

Obama starts off this clip by opposing English as an official language, seems to emphasize that teaching kids Spanish is more important than teaching them English, and then says Americans are an embarrassment because they only know one language when they go to Europe. It may be the one of the most grotesquely arrogant, out of touch displays that I have seen from someone running for President in the last decade.

The video shows it all.

UPDATE: Transcript:

You know, I don't understand when people are going around worrying about, "We need to have English- only." They want to pass a law, "We want English-only."

Now, I agree that immigrants should learn English. I agree with that. But understand this.

Instead of worrying about whether immigrants can learn English — they'll learn English — you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish. You should be thinking about, how can your child become bilingual? We should have every child speaking more than one language.

You know, 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 [is], "Merci beaucoup." Right?

You know, no, I'm serious about this. We should understand that our young people, if you have a foreign language, that is a powerful tool to get a job. You are so much more employable.

So, not only does he want everyone here to know English (and for what purpose? So we can tell illegals how to mow our lawns? Spanish isn't exactly useful in international commerce.), but who gives a crap what Europeans think of us? If it wasn't for us they would have been overrun by the Soviets. If they don't like us maybe they could build the biggest and baddest economy and military in the world like we did.