printGov. Chris Christie’s address on Tuesday, at the Reagan Library, was more rambling than Reaganesque. It was also a little baffling. In the second paragraph, Christie says,
“Ronald Reagan believed in this country. He embodied the strength, perseverance and faith that has propelled immigrants for centuries to embark on dangerous journeys to come here, to give up all that was familiar for all that was possible.”
What’s up with this? Was Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, an immigrant? And why mention immigrants at the onset of your coming-out-as-presidential-candidate address? By so doing, Ann Coulter’s crush is probably attempting to convey that to speak of America is to speak of immigrants.
America=immigration.
John Jay had a different take. He conceived of Americans as “a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and custom.” The very opposite of what his descendants are taught.
In the past America was a place where immigrants were welcome to come and try their luck to build a new life. Some of them had it hard but eventually they became part of the American fabric. Now, there is no American fabric. Americans are expected to stand at attention, apologize for America and bend over backwards to accomodate whichever bunch of third world tribesmen want to turn us into another jungle or desert disaster just like the one they left. I hope the head hunters in New Guinea don’t start coming over. I’ll bet California would absorb them nicely but the rest of us might have some problems.
Was Ronald Reagan an immigrant?
What could be more alien than Tampico and Dixon, IL and Eureka College to those who self-identify as the elite and ruling, and resonate only with the all-encompassing gender/racial/underclass and global untouchables?
It doesn’t appear that President Reagen was an immigrant, but grandparents / great grandparents perhaps!? I think that line was to show that he had some traits shown by immigrants.
http://genealogy.about.com/od/presidents/p/ronald_reagan.htm
However, now that there has been talk / articles re MARCO RUBIO and BOBBY JINDAL
for possible VP or higher, these things matter as we have seen with BHO.
The story about Rubio is that both his parents were Cuban, escaped Castro’s regime and came to the U.S., they became U.S. Citizens, and 4 years later, Marco was born.
Now, this, you know, will lead to all the hubbub about BHO’s eligibility.
NATURAL BORN CITIZEN is the question.
Sheriff Joe is heating up the issue with his Posse of volunteers researching it under his legal orders.
Please read: http://mises.org/daily/5686/Divided-We-Stand
DOES ANYONE TRUST THE WASHINGTON CROWD AT ALL AND IF SO, WHICH ONES?
Found out not too long ago that some member of my extended family had done some genealogy work. Seems that a distant relative on my paternal grandmother’s side was the sister of Confederate general J.E.B. Stuart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.E.B._Stuart.
To this I can add Admiral John Worden, commander of the U.S.S. Monitor and later commandant of the Naval Academy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Worden. My late mother was a Worden.
So, not only were Americans truly an extended family, but the Civil War really was a war pitting brothers against brothers.
This “nation (sic) of immigrants” stuff is a crock of shit.
Reagan always identified with the “City On A Hill” (New Jerusalem) concept of John Winthrop and the Puritans who came here to escape the Old World corruption and start anew with some religiously utopian ideals. Certainly a lot of people came here for reasons like that. Others came not so much to find Heaven in America but to escape various Hells – Nazi, Communistic, African-National-Congress, Islamic, whatever… – and some came for jobs and money.
The starting from a clean slate New Jerusalem idea is part mythical but it has been part of the American ethos. Still, immigrants had merged into am evolving “common culture” until the 1960’s when America started with the “minority classification” nonsense and bilingual education. Now we just have a mess.
Christie gets some credit for denouncing the Perry concept of free tuition for trespassers and high tuition for Americans.