what the user above me said

plus...
He was six. thats fairly young. i doubt he had a decent grasp of the language then anywas.

Right through from grade one to year twelve, every student in Australia learns English. You can't pass any year level here without a pass in English. And, just in case Americans don't know, in Australia we speak English.

If any of my kiddies was living/studying in a foreign country, I'd make darned sure they still took their English classes. Otherwise they'd be way behind their classmates when they got back home.

Wouldn't you?

Whether Obama's mother was married or not it entirely irrelevant. It says nothing about the man. It's nothing to be ashamed of, either. It's between his mother and God, if anyone.

It seems you're just looking for anything to try to nail Obama, and don't hesitate to stoop to such mean-spirited attacks as this. I ask you, "why"? What does that have to do with who Obama is now? If you don't like the man, just say so. If you've got a reason to dislike him, then share it. But to pick at things like his mother's marital status is just petty and irrelevant.

We could use some correspondence courses here in the Bluegrass, it seems the schools don't teach English very well.

I was in Germany my first time. I met up with some people who became my good friends. Hell, I just studied a bit of German before I went there. I could say the word for brown, in German, much better than a 6 year old who was born in Germany and knew only German. What's up with that? We all had a good laugh about that. lol.

So a little kid is living in a country where his native language is not the norm. So he needs classes to learn his own language better. Yeah, so?

Last time I checked kids in the US also take courses in English, even in college. Even more odd is some of these kids never learned a second language besides English yet they still take these classes.

As far as his mom being a teacher so people think its weird he learned elsewhere. Does a person who is a cook never go out to eat? Does a doctor never send his/her kids to see a specialist?

In many countries people study their own native language. At least in my country. You have classes of your native language before you start studying foreign languages. Actually reading and writing your own native language is the first thing taught at school in most countries.

Many ATS writers would surely find classes in English useful based on spelling mistakes such as "Marshall Law". Who is the Marshall Law who is coming to your town, does he wear a black hat or a white hat?

Maybe Obama is such a great speaker since he was studying English at age of six. Many children cannot read and write at that age. Many people cannot write or read properly even at age of 16, 26 or 36.

Savvy? It doesn't mean that a man is an evil foreigner even if he is studying his native language...

English is an official language in Kenya too, so his father would have spoken it at a young age too... It was a colony of Britain until 1963.

[edit on 29-7-2009 by Etsivä Romppainen]

[edit on 29-7-2009 by Etsivä Romppainen]