Obama, speaking in Colorado today:

12:18 p.m. “When it comes to second-language learners, the most important thing is not to get bogged down in ideology, but figure out what works,” Obama says. “Everybody should be bilingual, or everybody should be trilingual.” The comments drew loud applause.

His wife warned us, “Barack is going to require you to work.” Apparently we’re all going to be working on passing our federal foreign language exams.