Topic: Smart as a PICKLE

[rustybayonet]

From e-mail ---

Yep she shows up with wisdom again;  A first lady that makes me ashamed.... 
 
 
     Michelle Obama reminded attendees of a Naturalization Ceremony Wednesday that the Founding Fathers weren't born in America.  The ceremony for 50 new U.S. citizens was held at the National Archives in Washington , D.C.
     
She said during her speech , referring to the Declaration of Independence, "It's amazing that just a few feet from here where I'm standing are the signatures of the 56 Founders who put their names on a Declaration that changed the course of history, and like the 50 of you,   none of them were born American - they became American."
    
Excuse me?  Did she actually mean that those who signed the Declaration of Independence and participated in the drafting of the Constitution were not born in America?
      
Benjamin Franklin was born in Pennsylvania.
Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and James Madison were born in Virginia.  
John Adams was born in Massachusetts.  
Only eight of the 56 were not born in America . Surely she knew this.
     
But, then again, maybe not.  After all, she is a Harvard graduate. Isn't she?
     
As John Wayne said ....  "Life's tough.  It's tougher when you're stupid."
     
And by the way, THE CONSTITUTION WAS NOT SIGNED IN WASHINGTON D.C.!  It was signed in Philadelphia!  
     
I guess it's true, you just can't fix stupidity........
 

[warpmine]

When in doubt, she opens her gape and proves beyond that she is in fact a fool.

[Libertas]

See what happens when people take the Wookies tire swing away?

[AmericanPatriot]

Far be it from me to find anything good to say about her.
But, she's technically correct.

There was no America yet.
Most were born British subjects

[warpmine]

Far be it from me to find anything good to say about her.
But, she's technically correct.

There was no America yet.
Most were born British subjects

There was a North and South America. The United States didn't yet exist but they were the American colonies so yes the bitch is still incorrect.

[Alphabet Soup]

It's not like she ever GAS about her country (at least not until 0bongo fleeced his way into the white house).

[Weisshaupt]

But, she's technically correct.

There was no America yet.
Most were born British subjects

British subjects - BORN in the Americas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_%28word%29

16th-century European usage of American denoted the native inhabitants of the New World.[31] The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book France Antarctique; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.[31] In the following century, the term was extended to European settlers and their descendants in the Americas. The earliest recorded use of this term in English dates to 1648, in Thomas Gage's The English-American: A New Survet of the West Indies.[31][contradiction]

The term American, however, applied as a noun to the citizens of the newly independent colonies, was not yet in general usage. In fact, it was British officials who first called the colonists “Americans”.

But even if we take your meaning -  and the Founders BECAME Americans - after fighting a despotic government ( which Michelle Obama is an advocate of)   for their individual rights and freedoms,  the people in that room - DID NOT become Americans via that same process, and suggesting that  there is equivalence is still an ignorant  lie.  Michelle Obama doesn't even agree with the founders on what the qualities of an American are - in fact rejects the ideas of individual liberty, limited govt, rule of law and inalienable rights that the founders held dear - because liberals are and can be Americans in the geographic sense ONLY.

[John Florida]

  Words just fail me.