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    Vegas Live: Spit It Out, Already

    John Edwards answers each question as if he'd been asked, Sen. Edwards, can you please recite a few of your talking points on Subject X for us?

    Brian Williams asks, "What’s the problem with English as an official language?" Edwards takes a few minutes to weave in and out of immigration reform specificspenalties, pathway to citizenship, educationand finally, after Williams reminds him what the question was, manages to squeeze out this answer: "I think that [learning English] should be a requirement for being an American citizen."

    Now that wasn't so hard, was it?

About Christopher Beam

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