Originally Posted By: ed good
james: if what you claim here is in fact graham's thesis, then it is sad that one so respected as he, could be so ignorant of history and human nature...think back to the period in our history from the 1840's to the early twentieth century...

first it was the irish and the germans who came... then it was the scandinavians and the italians... and then the jews from russia and poland...escaping tyranny...looking for a better life...same as were my english and spanish ancestors, some of the first non asian immigrants to these shores...

nothing has changed, except for the origin of the latest wave of humanity finding its way here...they too will assimilate, as did those who came before them...they will become us...and that is a good thing...it is what makes america exceptional.


Ed, you are close, IMHO but you are missing something important.

Disregarding the issue of whether the quote can properly be attributed to Graham, there is the serious concern that the fundamental uniting beliefs, that allowed America to become the remarkable melting pot that it has been, have been corrupted or ruined by elements of the political left, for whom the American experiment is better off destroyed in favour of socialist internationalism. The Irish, Germans, Scandinavians, Poles and Jews, dispite their mistrust of each other, had a unified belief in the value of "America" and how to realize it's advantages. Many think that uniting philosophy is gone.

The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia