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Well, technically he is an illegal alien.

2 posted on 07/05/2006 12:40:55 PM PDT by taxcontrol

Refugee.

None of those opposed to the current immigration problem has any problem with accepting refugees.

But you *were* funny.

Somehow I don't think the new fence they're trying to get built is gonna help a whole lot.

5 posted on 07/05/2006 12:43:27 PM PDT by dangus

that's right. Superman couldn't be elected president either.

I could see an uproar if this happened in a Captain America movie, but Superman? Superman saves the world over and over, not just America.

10 posted on 07/05/2006 12:45:03 PM PDT by proust

"Well, technically he is an illegal alien."

Nope, in the current storyline in the comics his ship was an artificial womb and technically he was born in the USA when it landed and opened in front of the Kents.

As for the American Way stuff, the context is that Perry White is giving orders to different departments and among that he tells them to find out if he still stands for 'Truth, Justice, and all that stuff.' It doesn't come across as a deliberate evastion on Perry's part, but it is on the writers part.

As for the movie itself:

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Having Lois shack up with the boss's nephew is totaly wrong for her character in so many ways. Having the kid is another big mistake, and one they will have to live with in the next movie. When you take all that out, and remove Superman being away 5 years, what you are left with is a re-hash of the first movie that directly and indirectly copies in in many, many ways. Granted, the acting and effects are much better, but a creative and original story is not there. I give it 3/5

15 posted on 07/05/2006 12:50:29 PM PDT by Grig

Since Superman is an illegal alien, he should return to his country or planet or origin and come back when he can enter legally.

17 posted on 07/05/2006 12:55:10 PM PDT by Ptaz (Take Personal Responsibility--it's not fun, but it's the right thing to do.)

I was going to post the thought but dithered.

He came here as a very small child and was taken in by a loving American family that lived in Smallville. Later as an adult he as Calrk Kent moved to Metropolis.

It will take a better historian than me to assert absolutely that he was not in fact legally adopted while very very young and there by made an American citizen.

33 posted on 07/05/2006 1:54:37 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. Slay Pinch)

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