![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
Hm, what a lovely combination of headlines...
Schwarzenagger vetoes gay marriage bills.
Oh, and there are still rumors circulating he's running for re-election and possibly later for President because obviously, the last actor we had for President just did such a great job.
Secondly, US image abroad has suffered.
Oh wow. Really? What with the hugest ever mass protests against one person and the fact that 58 percent in the BBC poll see Bush's re-election as a threat to world peace, I would have never guessed that America's actually unpopular now.
This isn't high school. It is not a case of being cool to be uncool. This is a case of a global community, of peer judgment and not of a bully stomping onto the playing field, stomping on the glasses of the geeks and insisting it's because they wreck grade curve so really, bullying them is okay!
Come on people. I lived in Europe. I remember how proud I felt to be able to tell people that I'm American. I remember daydreaming about living in America once I started college.
I don't even know when it was that I started realizing being American was a shameful thing; but I do know it had nothing to do with extra-marital blowjobs and quite a bit to do with someone's idea of diplomacy being to forget the soft words and rely on the big stick.
Oh, and there are still rumors circulating he's running for re-election and possibly later for President because obviously, the last actor we had for President just did such a great job.
Secondly, US image abroad has suffered.
Oh wow. Really? What with the hugest ever mass protests against one person and the fact that 58 percent in the BBC poll see Bush's re-election as a threat to world peace, I would have never guessed that America's actually unpopular now.
This isn't high school. It is not a case of being cool to be uncool. This is a case of a global community, of peer judgment and not of a bully stomping onto the playing field, stomping on the glasses of the geeks and insisting it's because they wreck grade curve so really, bullying them is okay!
Come on people. I lived in Europe. I remember how proud I felt to be able to tell people that I'm American. I remember daydreaming about living in America once I started college.
I don't even know when it was that I started realizing being American was a shameful thing; but I do know it had nothing to do with extra-marital blowjobs and quite a bit to do with someone's idea of diplomacy being to forget the soft words and rely on the big stick.
no subject
And if I'm not mistaken, the protest was against the Iraq War, not Bush. Not that many of the protestors wouldn't protest against Bush as well.
no subject