Posted by floatingbridge on May 1, 2011, at 13:01:09
So I get my news from my husband. Trump is out there stumping. Apparently he is claiming to be the *only true American* candidate.
How can this be true? Any citizen is a true citizen. Granted, to become president, a candidate needs to be a native as well.
But that seems pretty dismissive of the majority of people in the United States. All of my relations came to this country at the turn of the previous century or afterwards. They worked hard in small businesses, some were refugees from eastern Europe. One exception was one tiny branch of the family tree that descended from John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts. (Check my facts on that, please.)
My poor mom used to laugh about that. Said it qualified her to belong to the DAR, Daughters of the American Revolution. If you had seen us, you'd have gotten the joke. Poor Catholics w/ lots of kids in a largely Protestant neighborhood. The
significance of that lost to me until I was a teenager.
*a rose by any name
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