David E. Powell wrote:
> On Jul 5, 11:18 am, wis...@yahoo.com wrote:
>> On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 08:02:56 -0400, "Population Explosion"

>> <flatb...@prodigy.net> wrote:
>>> More Americans losing jobs daily and we can't pay for gas for gas in our
>>> cars in order to sit in traffic on our traffic jammed highways; and Bush
>>> welcomes more immigrants into America. Never mind that we need more people
>>> here like we need more air, water and habitat destruction; President Moron
>>> gets a photo-op. I'm only sorry that more people in the audience didn't yell
>>> for his impeachment. 198 more days and (please Lord) we'll be rid of him. Of
>>> course, he'll be replaced with someone who will want to throw open America's
>>> doors to even more legal and illegal "immigrants."
>>> Bush Welcomes New American Citizens
>>> Antiwar Demonstrators Interrupt Annual Naturalization Ceremony at Monticello
>>> Washington Post Staff Writer
>>> Saturday, July 5, 2008; Page A02
>>> CHARLOTTESVILLE, July 4 -- President Bush kicked off the Fourth of July at
>>> the hilltop estate of one of the nation's Founding Fathers, where he
>>> welcomed dozens of new American citizens from 30 countries.
>>> Bush's address Friday at the annual Independence Day naturalization ceremony
>>> at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello was immediately interrupted by a handful of
>>> antiwar demonstrators, one of whom repeatedly shouted, "Impeach Bush!" Bush,
>>> apparently unfazed, offered a holiday-appropriate response.
>>> "To my fellow citizens-to-be, we believe in free speech in the United States
>>> of America," Bush said to hearty applause.
>>> Six protesters, including one in a cartoonish Uncle Sam hat, were
>>> "voluntarily escorted" away from the crowd of 3,000, and no arrests were
>>> made, said Lee Catlin, a spokeswoman for Albemarle County.
>>> The citizenship ceremony has been held annually since 1963 outside
>>> Jefferson's colonnaded plantation home in the verdant Piedmont hills. Bush,
>>> the fourth U.S. president to address the event, lauded the "guiding
>>> principles" Jefferson laid out in the Declaration of Independence, saying
>>> they had long inspired immigrants like those gathered before him.
>>> "They've made America a melting pot of cultures from all across the world.
>>> They've made diversity one of the great strengths of our democracy," he
>>> said. "And all of us here today are here to honor and pay tribute to that
>>> great notion of America."
>>> The 74 new citizens (72 adults and two children) filed one by one across a
>>> sun-drenched stage, and they shook hands with their new president. There was
>>> Ali Hussain Al Asady, an Iraqi man with a small U.S. flag sticking out of
>>> one buttonhole of his striped shirt. There was Sawsan Mohamed El Fatih
>>> Zeyada, a Sudanese woman wearing a vibrant floral head scarf. And there was
>>> Julia White Freeman, a petite girl born eight years ago in China, who got
>>> more than a handshake: Bush lifted her off the ground and propped her on his
>>> hip.
>>> Julia, donning a red-white-and-blue dress tailor-made for the occasion,
>>> smiled sheepishly.
>>> "I knew already I was an American, but it just made me feel very good and
>>> different," Julia said after the ceremony, as she soaked in the atmosphere
>>> with her parents, John Freeman and Jennifer White of Charlottesville, and
>>> her sister, Emily, who, like Julia, was adopted from China. "I feel that
>>> it's very exciting."
>>> The experience was heady for other new citizens, too, all Virginia residents
>>> who seemed to realize that they were taking the oath under special
>>> circumstances. Many naturalization ceremonies occur in places such as
>>> federal courtrooms.
>>> It was inspiring for Zeyada, 40, a native of Khartoum who is studying for a
>>> master's degree and hopes to become a psychologist. She, like many others in
>>> the group, said she was "proud to be an American." But she said that when
>>> she looked at the cast on the stage -- Bush, Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine
>>> (D) and a gaggle of federal judges in black robes -- she saw her American
>>> dream for her four children, ages 7 to 12, who watched from the crowd.
>>> "My kids have a big chance here," she said, referring to the United States.
>>> She pointed toward the stage. "Those men up there, maybe they can be one of
>>> them."
>> The President of the United States of America is worthless. Same for
>> McCain and Obama. America needs a total rebuild.

> And what the fuck do you want to do? Decrease the population? How,
> smart ass? Hey here's an idea, if you don't like it and don't like
> people are free to have kids here, move and get out.