>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."

> <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.

> Actually, the government provides a yearly subsidy for having kids.

> Nationlizing helath care will decrease the quality of care recieved
> and provide a disincentive to drug companies to come up with drug to
> make our lives (or erections) longer.  Thus decreasing how long our
> elderly hang on.  Thus curbing population growth.

> > On Jul 5, 11:49 am, clams_casino <PeterGrif...@DrunkinClam.com> wrote:
> >> David E. Powell wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >> Actually, the government provides a yearly subsidy for having kids.

> > Nationlizing helath care will decrease the quality of care recieved
> > and provide a disincentive to drug companies to come up with drug to
> > make our lives (or erections) longer.  Thus decreasing how long our
> > elderly hang on.  Thus curbing population growth.

> You don't think we have enough great drugs to make old people stay alive?

> Not say I like universal health care, but, come on, old people are going
> to die _earlier_ if it happens unless

>> <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.

> Republicans...they want more babies...but they don't want anyone to
> fuck.