• Mike Huckabee speaks no language other than English but
this former Arkansas Governor and Southern Baptist preacher hopes
to speak the language of the voters. His electrifying oratory
elevated him as the only Republican governor of Arkansas to be
elected to two four-year terms.

• He learned to read koine Greek (the dialect in which the
New Testament is written) while studying to be a Baptist pastor
but cannot speak the Greek language.

• Huckabee's early adult life wallowed in the
communications business. At the young age of 21, he became
director of a Christian advertising agency in Texas and by 25, he
made his living by ghostwriting books, designing church
publications and writing ads. "He had a great sense of humor that
came out on the radio, in his sermons, and in the dorm room with
the guys," Huckabee's college roommate Rick Caldwell commented.		

• Apart from English, Obama speaks, 'Indonesian and a
little Spanish' as told to The Hill in 2006. He has confided that
his 'German is not real good.'

• Barack Obama, the son of a Kenya-born Harvard-educated
economist and an American anthropologist, was brave enough to
admit his handicap in not being able to speak a foreign
language.

• "I don't speak a foreign language. It's embarrassing!"
were his words at a town hall meeting in Powder Spring, Georgia
on July 11, 2008.

• He is reported to have an average grasp of the
Indonesian language as a result of the four years he spent at
local schools in Jakarta.

• However, despite having a multi-national family tree and
being brought up in a diverse cultural climate, Obama lacks a
proficient grasp of any foreign languages.

• Though he himself could not be bilingual, this global
leader of the free world is of the firm opinion that in America
"we should have every child speaking more than one language" and
emphasized the need for foreign language study in America's
classrooms.

• Obama's embarrassment over Americans not knowing more
foreign languages prompted a few outrages from conservative
groups who argued that the President?s comments meant Americans
should be forced to learn Spanish.

• Obama's heightened faculty as a writer par excellence in
the English language stands him in good stead among his
supporters.