To: Tanniker Smith; SoFloFreeper; Borges
Paine was English.
He was certainly a US citizen (eventually) and influenced Americans, as he did the English & the French, but he could be found just as easily on a list of Influential Englishmen as Influential Americans
141 posted on
11/22/2006 9:05:40 AM PST by
Diggadave
(Omlette making lessons?)
To: Diggadave; Christopher Lincoln
True, but people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were technically "British," too!
143 posted on
11/22/2006 9:07:47 AM PST by
Alberta's Child
(Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
To: Diggadave
Ummmm, did he get his green card and naturalize eventually??
163 posted on
11/22/2006 9:36:43 AM PST by
Tanniker Smith
(I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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