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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.
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Agreed on all accounts, however, there is not one single country that has ever NOT behaved in some horrificly shameful way. We just happen to be witnessing the US do it now. Doesn't make it right, it just means that I don't think it's worthy of saying I'm ashamed to be American.
Except that we don't elect presidents based on popular vote, so that is an irrelivant point.
Yeah, I do. I think that MOST Americans find it to be bullshit, and I think that since the Democrats are going to, I firmly believe, control the congress and presidency next time, I think the Patriot Act will be finished.
Well, and how is that untrue? Seriously, on the whole, I think that describes most of the country. I'll bet it's fairly accurate for the rest of humanity.
While, on the whole, I do agree with your sentiments, it's the conclusion that they lead you to I respectfully disagree with. And I do mean that I respect your opinion. I just don't feel the same. :)
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