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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

probably??
WTF ....do we get a link, clue or do you just want us to read your mind?
its bad enough when you just post something dumb but when you want us to work for the privilege of understanding what you are babbling about , I don't care enough.

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ORIGINAL: willbeurdaddy

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

probably??
WTF ....do we get a link, clue or do you just want us to read your mind?
its bad enough when you just post something dumb but when you want us to work for the privilege of understanding what you are babbling about , I don't care enough.

Youre Canadian. Who cares. You obviously didnt care enough to listen to his speech, or if you did are clueless as to the history of the Statue of Liberty. I would hope that the level of education amongst Americans is high enough that they dont need to be spoon fed.

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ORIGINAL: Mercnbeth

I know this is a big vacation week and not many people are paying attention; but was it just me who heard Obama's latest campaign speech and though it was a summer rerun of George Bush's speech on the same subject a few years ago?

CHRIST - the man is so lost he can't even go back on a campaign commitment without borrowing from the same playbook of his predecessor.

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ORIGINAL: willbeurdaddy

Or did he just decide to make up shit about the Statue of Liberty for effect?

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ORIGINAL: BitaTruble

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ORIGINAL: willbeurdaddy

Or did he just decide to make up shit about the Statue of Liberty for effect?

I was born in Texas, raised in California. Totally 100% United States National but I live in Milan, don't have television yet, no radio and didn't even have any power for 6 hours today. When I goggle my G3 card throws up and kicks me off line. I would really appreciate a link if you don't mind. Thanks in advance.

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One of the largest waves of immigration in our history took place little more than a century ago. At the time, Jewish people were being driven out of Eastern Europe, often escaping to the sounds of gunfire and the light from their villages burning to the ground. The journey could take months, as families crossed rivers in the dead of night, traveled miles by foot, endured a rough and dangerous passage over the North Atlantic. Once here, many made their homes in a teeming and bustling Lower Manhattan.

It was at this time that a young woman named Emma Lazarus, whose own family fled persecution from Europe generations earlier, took up the cause of these new immigrants. Although she was a poet, she spent much of her time advocating for better healthcare and housing for the newcomers. And inspired by what she saw and heard, she wrote down her thoughts and donated a piece of work to help pay for the construction of a new statue -- the Statue of Liberty -- which actually was funded in part by small donations from people across America.

Years before the statue was built -- years before it would be seen by throngs of immigrants craning their necks skyward at the end of long and brutal voyage, years before it would come to symbolize everything that we cherish -- she imagined what it could mean. She imagined the sight of a giant statue at the entry point of a great nation -– but unlike the great monuments of the past, this would not signal an empire. Instead, it would signal one's arrival to a place of opportunity and refuge and freedom.

"Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand," she wrote,

A mighty woman with a torch…

From her beacon-hand

Glows worldwide welcome…

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!"…

"Give me your tired, and your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to be free…

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Let us remember these words. For it falls on each generation to ensure that that lamp -- that beacon -- continues to shine as a source of hope around the world, and a source of our prosperity here at home.

Thank you. God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America. Thank you.

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Years before the statue was built -- years before it would be seen by throngs of immigrants craning their necks skyward at the end of long and brutal voyage, years before it would come to symbolize everything that we cherish -- she imagined what it could mean. She imagined the sight of a giant statue at the entry point of a great nation -– but unlike the great monuments of the past, this would not signal an empire. Instead, it would signal one's arrival to a place of opportunity and refuge and freedom. "

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

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Years before the statue was built -- years before it would be seen by throngs of immigrants craning their necks skyward at the end of long and brutal voyage, years before it would come to symbolize everything that we cherish -- she imagined what it could mean. She imagined the sight of a giant statue at the entry point of a great nation -– but unlike the great monuments of the past, this would not signal an empire. Instead, it would signal one's arrival to a place of opportunity and refuge and freedom. "

This part was in reference to Emma, not the statue.

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

Anyone can read "The New Colossus" and see that she considered the Statue to be more than a commemoration of the Declaration.

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Anytime someone has nothing more than this for people to bitch about, things must be going well.

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

Anytime someone has nothing more than this for people to bitch about, things must be going well.

The most ridiculous thing is, there is ample things to complain about, I mean we have some really really big stuff to complain about... I have to wonder why he isn't going for the more obvious stuff (unemployment, destroyed gulf region, two wars, etc etc etc)