A sign of the times? The most comprehensive, mature, and convincing conversation Newt Gingrich has had with the media so far about his dubious personal history comes to us from Univisión, where their top journalist, Jorge Ramos, sat down for an extensive interview with the candidate released today. Ramos went where few journalists have gone before with Gingrich– a comparison of his second known affair with President Clinton’s– and got a fair and long answer.

Rep. Ron Paul is a strict constitutionalist, but when it comes to one provision of the 14th Amendment, he doesn’t think it is currently being properly interpreted. Discussing immigration during an interview with Jorge Ramos on Univisión’s Sunday morning politics show Al Punto, Rep. Ron Paul hesitated on whether he believed birthright citizenship should be a given, noting that he wasn’t sure if the 14th Amendment applied to children of illegal immigrants.

In a town hall meeting put on by the Spanish language network Univision, anchor Jorge Ramos asked the president if he had an iPad (he does) and, in a somewhat regrettable follow-up, if, well, the president has his own computer–really his, not like, a shared computer or something. The question put President Obama into standup comic mode, asking “I mean, Jorge, I’m the president of the United States,” Obama said to the laughter of the crowd at an education town hall broadcast by Univision. “You think I’ve got to go borrow somebody’s computer? … ‘Hey, man, can I borrow your computer? … How about you? You’ve got one?’”

As one would expect for a state dinner involving Mexican President Felipe Calderon, the White House guest list will look familiar to those who regularly get their news from Spanish-language media or who follow the schedule of the world’s richest man, New York Times investor Carlos Slim.

So what did President Obama say to Univisión? It was hard to tell.

As I began to watch the interview he gave to Jorge Ramos, I found myself moving closer and closer to the TV, as if I were deciphering a strange language. The premier Spanish network had made the awful choice of dubbing instead of subtitling the interview.