<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."