Straws connected to nothing but more straws...

Only around the fires of American Republican encampments and at weekly meetings of the Michigan militia would this conversation by Michael Goldfarb be considered to have more merit than where a bear took a dump.

It seems there is some legitimate confusion on just what languages Obama speaks, and as far as Arabic, the only real hint has came from Nick Kristof, who heard Obama recite the Muslim call to prayer in Arabic and with a "first-rate accent" back in 2007.

Legitimate?!

Obama, as a kid in Jakarta, attended school with muslims. The Adhan to which Goldfarb refers but does not know the name, happens several times a day in places like Jakarta... in Arabic, even though the native language of the place is Bahasa.

I don't believe in any god but I can recite both The Adhan and The Lord's Prayer equally well in the language ambient in the classrooms during the periods they were rammed into my head as daily memory work.

Interesting that Goldfarb spends time gazing at his genitals worrying about the language skills of the current president when the immediate past president, somebody he held up in messianic glory, usually left basic English in a smoking heap of bad grammar.

Sadly, No! offers more.