Common Sense

That’s about all I remember from Spanish class (4 years of high school Spanish and your public education dollars at work), but it is a good enough segue into this story:

When the president was asked at a Rose Garden question-and-answer session whether the anthem should be sung in Spanish, he replied: “I think the national anthem ought to be sung in English, and I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English and they ought to learn to sing the national anthem in English.”

I’m not going to hop in and debate one way or the other on this. You’re either for it or against it; it’s one of those kinds of hot-button issues and I’m not going to be able to sway anyone one way or the other.

Fun fact: Most native-born Americans can’t remember the words to the national anthem. They remember the first part. They remember the ending. Not so much the middle verses, though. Someone in the White House press corps should ask the president to sing the national anthem unassisted (in English if he prefers). That would be a news-making video.