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Tuesday, May 2, 2006 12:00 AM

Oh, say can you care?

The flap over a Spanish-language national anthem.
Tim Grieve

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  • Tuesday, May 2, 2006 10:48 AM

    Is it possible the survey was flawed?

    Call me crazy, but the question asked in the survey doesn't seem to get at what the survey taker meant. I bet the majority of respondents were considering that question in the context of moments of official state business. Essentially, nobody cares how people want to sing it most of the time but when we're singing it at the Olympics or we're singing it at the Inauguration or other times when the country is 'on display', people want to hear it in English. With that caveat, the answers make a lot more sense. Many many many people like the tradition the way we currently practice it. Why would they want to change?

    I really don't think that 70% of Americans are ligua-phobes. Isn't this just another excuse for a wedge issue?

    —DMBfan34 Read DMBfan34's other letters

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