Is it Time to Send Lady Liberty Back to France? - By Gene Robinson

[calimary]

9. It's AWFUL, isn't it! I keep thinking about that poem on the Statue of Liberty's pedestal.

The one that goes - "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses... your wretched refuse... the homeless, tempest-tost...

The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

http://www.libertystatepark.com/emma.htm

Fucking damn teabaggers. Intolerant, hateful, mean-spirited, closed-minded, regressive, selfish, willfully-ignorant, utterly ANTI-American they are! If they hate it, and them, so much, and they don't want to play anymore, why don't THEY leave? Heck, I'd help them pack! They've made a complete mockery of this beautiful poem and this even more beautiful sentiment. ASSHOLES!!!!