Posted on 06/16/2011 4:23:41 PM PDT by curth
Will watch later. Thanks for posting.
>>>>...Obama just makes up the history of the Statue of Liberty, what it symbolizes, and how it came to be.
And thanks to our edumacation system, the yout’s of today are to stupid to know Dear Leader is spewing a line of total crap, and too brainwashed to care.
An utter lying ass; however, this qualifies Obozo to head the CSG (Central Socialist Government).
Thanks for the info, Curth. Yes, it’s unbelievable how many tall tales the MSM lets the Usurper get away with. He lies as glibly as Casey Anthony,. Once you’ve told as many untruths as he has, they just roll of of his purple tongue... and knowing he won’t be challenged, why would he worry about a fact or two getting lost in the translation?
I just watched all the “news” ... not a “whiff” of this. Thank heavens for FR and like.
Any Republican mouthing this utter ignorance would be the subject of endless derision.
And justifiably so.
It looks like she raised a fund to help finance the pedestal upon which it stands. ... so it is an Obama half truth. Just like GM paid back all of the debt DURING HIS PRESIDENCY. Same slight of hand. I bet the French will love this one.
Any possibility of getting a summary/transcript of what Barry said?
Facts and timeframes all wrong. Whoever wrote that for him to READ was as big an idiot as he is.
I wonder if Obama knows that she was a Zionist. I was taught way back in elementary school that the French were responsible for the Statue, but I guess Obama has set the record straight.
I am sure when he read it he had no clue as to whether it was right or wrong.
He could have said the statue was there to warn the British that the colonists were arming themselves for war and the media would have nodded in agreement.
So true to his Marxist ideology....Make up or twist history to whatever you want.
CNN showed Boehner lighting a cig. The end of the report said obama used to smoke, too. Blitzer couldn’t wait to add tha obama quit a long time ago. The brown on the media’s nose is sickening.
Transcript:
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 health care 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 world-wide 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.
She was also a Marxist and that’s what matters to Obama.
The donation was for the pedestal fund, not for the statue. That was what is known as a gift, Mr. O.
Well I will reserve comments on it until I can see if I can find some verification of his version of the story fitting into the known history of the Statue of Liberty, I see this as a possible attempt to make his detractors look as foolish as Sarah Palin recently did with hers. He could be trying for his gotcha now too...
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