In March 2006, Barack Obama told The Hill that he could speak “Indonesian and a little Spanish.” But today at a campaign event in Ohio, Obama elaborated: “I don’t speak a foreign language. It’s embarrassing!” Obama confessed his monolingual shame while defending comments he had made earlier in the week:

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