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To: longnshort who wrote (839746)	2/28/2015 11:56:44 AM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1574004

Not only didn’t her Harvard and Princeton educations teach her how to feed her children, they apparently didn’t teach her much about American history: Maybe you should read more carefully Short stuff...... While most were born on this soil, it was not yet America..... The First Lady said, in reference to the Founding Fathers, that "none of them were born American; they became American," and in its original context (i.e., a naturalization ceremony), the meaning of that statement was perfectly clear. What Michelle Obama was communicating on that occasion was that the Founding Fathers were not born into a fully formed and established America with its own history, customs, culture, and values, as modern American children are; they were born into a very different world as British subjects in a colonial empire, and they chose to seek new opportunities and lives for themselves by transforming their world into something distinctive (through the establishment of a new nation) — just as modern immigrants born outside America choose to transform their worlds by opting to leave their homelands for the United States and seek new lives through becoming Americans. snopes.com