BARACK OBAMA: Europeans are cooler than Americans.

Tom Maguire has some language questions for Obama, too. But isn’t contrasting American rubes with sophisticated Europeans more in the line of Democratic primary fodder than of general election material? And isn’t the whole French thing kind of, well . . . Kerryesque?

UPDATE: Reader Daniel Schensul emails:

Criticizing Obama for suggesting that kids should learn more foreign languages — Good times!!

Seriously, do you really want to mock someone for suggesting that it would be good for kids in schools to have better foreign language programs? Is that where you want your blog to go? You could have criticized him for avoiding the question of immigrants learning English, like they did over at the corner. Instead, you just typed the boilerplate attack line and move on.

That’s kinda sad, I have to say, and not normally your style.

I’m not mocking Obama for suggesting foreign language education. I’m mocking Obama for yuppie condescension. Watch the video.