Posted on 03/25/2009 3:42:13 PM PDT by MNDude
My wife was naturalized into a US citizen today. It was a rather bitter-sweet experience.
It started out with the star spangled banner and some patriotic songs.
Then they listed the countries of the 192 new citizens. Unfortunately, Somalia and Ethiopia had the most citizens (about 40 each), Vietnam and Thailand both had about 25. Surprisingly, my wife was one of the few hispanics. I guess, why bother doing that pain in the butt for something you can get the same benefits for nothing. Probably a handful of Caucasians getting naturalized but there sure were a lot of burcas!
Some liberal woman judge gave the speech that ticked me off immensely. She told the new citizens that our country's strength is based on "diversity and tolerance". No reference to liberty, duty, responsibility, sacrifice, loyalty of course. What the heck exactly is tolerance anyhow? You can only have tolerance for something annoying or bad can't you?
This hag then told everyone that our "democracy only works when everyone gets involved in the political like we saw back in November"
Next, they played a video of Obama speaking--I'm pretty sure it was his inauguration speech, which sucked since I took pride in missing this "historic event". At this time, I let my 2 year old loose and run around like a pill until this video was over.
The service ended with the music "I'm proud to be an American" song playing which raised my spirits a bit.
Sadly, I bet a very small number of those new Americans will be Sarah Palin voters in 2012.
Good points. Congrats to your wife. IMO, it is not our diversity that “makes us strong”, it is the AMerican values we hold in common. Sadly, not so common anymore.
Congrats.
Congratulations to you and your wife and son !!! Your wife did the right thing and you both have much to be proud of. And the USA is lucky to have that kind of new citizen.
It’s such a big occasion, sorry the lib judge had to put a damper on it - try not to let it get you down.
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Bump
Have her register to vote Republican.
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