[PLUG-TALK] Re: [PLUG] Sounds good to me ;)

Miller, Jeremy JMILLER at ci.albany.or.us
Thu Jun 20 18:54:19 UTC 2002


> On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Craighead, Scot D wrote:
> > >I also won't concede that they are uninvited. The US 
> invites everyone,
> > >all the time. The words at the bottom of the Statue of 
> Liberty are, in
> > >no small way, an open invitation.
> > 
> > These words were not written by Americans.  They were written by the
> > French.
> 
> No.  You just assumed that.  You really should know whether things are
> true or not before you use them to discount someone else's point.

I assumed it also, while talking about something else.

I retract that assumption, and thanks for the history.

> The French had nothing to do with it.

Well, they did build the statue that it fits with so well.  And gave it to
us, so we could stick her poem on it and make it world famous. :)





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