@stengel: Regarding the "poisoning of the blood"—the whole point of America is that we do not have and never have had a common blood. We do not have and never have had a common religion, or a common ethnicity, or acommon heritage. What we do have is an uncommon set of ideas, that all people are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That, and not our blood, is what makes us Americans.
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