re: #64 HappyWarrior

…. America is not about a race or ethnicity. It’s about wanting to belong. And that’s something Nativists have never gotten about this country whether they were bellyaching about the Irish in the Famine years or today complaining about asylum seekers.

That’s one thing I respected about McCain (as well as his courage during Vietnam) — his very eloquent defense of the best of our heritage:

We are citizens of the world’s greatest republic, a nation of ideals, not blood and soil. We are blessed and are a blessing to humanity when we uphold and advance these ideals at home and in the world