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Obama’s Stirring Immigration Speech Slightly Tainted by Misquote of ‘The New Colossus’
nymag.com ^ | 7/1/10 | Robert Benmoscher

Posted on 07/01/2010 11:15:55 AM PDT by Nachum

With immigration reform attracting negligible Republican interest and seemingly going nowhere, President Obama laid out the case for action and what it would look like in a major speech at American University this morning. In doing so, Obama employed a familiar formula: identifying what the extreme left wants to do (straight-up amnesty), identifying what the extreme right wants to do (round up every illegal and kick them out), and then placing his vision for immigration reform squarely in the middle.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; immigration; importingdemocrats; importingsocialism; invasion; obamas; speech; stirring
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1 posted on 07/01/2010 11:16:02 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Slightly tainted? Putrid and rotten more like it.


2 posted on 07/01/2010 11:17:03 AM PDT by Mmogamer (<This space for lease>)
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To: Mmogamer

“Stirring”? It was a disaster from the moment Obabamamarama opened his mouth.


3 posted on 07/01/2010 11:18:51 AM PDT by TommyDale (Independent - I already left the GOP because they were too liberal)
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To: Nachum

The Left would have America think that Socialist Emma Lazarus’ poem is Federal Law. It is not.


4 posted on 07/01/2010 11:19:31 AM PDT by montag813 (http://www.facebook.com/StandwithArizona)
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To: Nachum

It doesn’t take *much* to get a typical PMSDNC DemboSlut
to start creaming her panties, does it?


5 posted on 07/01/2010 11:22:48 AM PDT by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: Nachum
Going to guess he didn't mention the last line:

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

There IS A DOOR!

6 posted on 07/01/2010 11:23:44 AM PDT by Domandred (Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
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To: Nachum
It would be comprehensive and fair — securing the borders, creating a pathway to citizenship (involving penalties and requirements) for illegals currently in the country, and streamlining our legal immigration process.

The Democrats have been chanting this meaningless refrain for twenty years, with their adoring journalistic teeny-bopper fans singing along and screaming in approval.

Meanwhile every gangbanger, drug runner and islamaniac has been strolling across the border by the thousands daily for decades.

How about we close the border, then we can have a debate about what to do about those already on this side of the fence.

7 posted on 07/01/2010 11:23:53 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Nachum

My “middle of the road solution”. Any illegal who has a job may surrender to ICE, receive a green card, SSS card, begin paying taxes, and become eligible for benefits under FICA. They may travel freely but need to carry and present green cards. They,as a consequence of arriving here illegalay, may NEVER attain citizenship, may never own a firearm, and will forfeit their status and be deported upon conviction of a felony. I’d welcome any comments.


8 posted on 07/01/2010 11:24:53 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: Nachum

The Obamaloon is a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance covered by human excrement.

Other than that, he is a fine man.


9 posted on 07/01/2010 11:25:13 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Nachum

Stirring ... the only thing “stirring” was my breakfast


10 posted on 07/01/2010 11:30:50 AM PDT by clamper1797 (Would you hold my hand ... If I saw you in heaven ... to my angel in heaven)
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To: Nachum

Stirring ... the only thing “stirring” was my breakfast


11 posted on 07/01/2010 11:30:58 AM PDT by clamper1797 (Would you hold my hand ... If I saw you in heaven ... to my angel in heaven)
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To: Da Coyote

Not practical to round up illegals and deport them? Herbert Hoover did it. Harry truman did it. Dwight Eisenhower did it. Of course, their loyalty was to the American people.


12 posted on 07/01/2010 11:31:46 AM PDT by JayVee (Joseph)
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To: Nachum

The leftards, stung by listless “major speeches” of late by That One, are doing their level best to apply this narrative of a “stirring,” or “chilling” oration this time around.


13 posted on 07/01/2010 11:33:27 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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To: montag813

Her poem and lady liberty are *art* whereas the Constitution is *law*. Too many ignore those facts.

I had the thought of securing the borders and creating a SINGLE port of entry into the country...Ellis Island.


14 posted on 07/01/2010 11:33:48 AM PDT by RoseyT
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To: Nachum

The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Emma Lazarus, 1883

History of the poem
The poem was written as a donation to an auction of art and literary works [1] conducted by the “Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty”, the aim of which was to raise money for the pedestal’s construction [2] The contribution was solicited by fundraiser William Maxwell Evarts. Initially Lazarus refused, but Constance Cary Harrison convinced her that the statue would be of great significance to immigrants sailing into the harbor [3].

“The New Colossus” was the only entry read at the exhibit’s opening, but was forgotten and played no role at the opening of the statue in 1886. In 1901, Lazarus’s friend Georgina Schuyler began an effort to memorialize Lazarus and her poem, which succeeded in 1903 when a plaque bearing the text of the poem was mounted on the inner wall of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty [2].

The line “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” has read “Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!” on the plaque hanging inside the Statue of Liberty[4] since its unveiling in 1903.


15 posted on 07/01/2010 11:41:23 AM PDT by COUNTrecount (Barry...above his poi grade.)
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To: Nachum

“Obama employed a familiar formula: identifying what the extreme left wants to do (straight-up amnesty), identifying what the extreme right wants to do (round up every illegal and kick them out), and then placing his vision for immigration reform squarely in the middle.”

And then go with amnesty; but call it something else. That’s being in the middle.


16 posted on 07/01/2010 11:44:53 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Nachum
obama

.... I'm watching you....!
Misquote my big fat a$$.
Besides, facts are not important.....


17 posted on 07/01/2010 11:49:38 AM PDT by jongaltsr (It)
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To: Nachum

Once upon a time America welcomed huddled masses
Now we are being overrun by muddled asses


18 posted on 07/01/2010 11:56:20 AM PDT by silverleaf (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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To: silverleaf
Once upon a time America welcomed huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
Now we are being overrun by muddled asses yearning to EAT free.
19 posted on 07/01/2010 12:35:59 PM PDT by jimt
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To: Nachum

Unemployment at 10 percent, the housing market collapsed, the stock market collapsing, the stimulus failing, our schools overflowing and broke, our prisons overflowing and broke, our hospitals overflowing and broke, and Obamao is making a passionate speech about opening the floodgates to the world’s socialists to boost his political chances. Hire a creep; get creepy politics.


20 posted on 07/01/2010 1:02:22 PM PDT by pallis
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