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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 10:50 AM Original message |
Proud to be an American? |
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ileus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
1. Always have been always will be. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
2. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 11:00 AM Response to Original message |
3. I'm proud to be an American and too often ashamed of what is done in its name. n/t |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 11:02 AM Response to Original message |
4. I'm not sure we ever really had a right to be proud of being born here. |
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NC_Nurse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 11:05 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Exactly. Accident of birth. |
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GeorgeGist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
6. I'm not even proud to be human. |
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 11:28 AM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Yep. I have days like that. |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 11:06 AM Response to Original message |
7. I just hate that f**king song. |
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leeroysphitz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 11:06 AM Response to Original message |
8. You may benefit from going back and re-reading your Zinn. N/T |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 11:21 AM Response to Original message |
9. "Patriotism is the most foolish of passions, and the passion of fools." Schopenhauer |
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MatthewStLouis (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
10. I am always proud of the good things! |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
12. Those who excoriate European socialism fail to recognise that nearly |
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tularetom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
13. I'm thankful that I was raised in the America of the 40's, 50's and 60's |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 12:17 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. I'm guessing you're not African American. |
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 12:40 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Ouch. Great post Ms Arugula Latte. |
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11 Bravo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 02:49 PM Response to Reply #18 |
26. And I'm guessing you're not of West African descent. |
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 03:15 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. And your point is ...? |
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11 Bravo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 04:04 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. West African tribes sold thousands of their African brothers and sisters into slavery ... |
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EC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
14. Actually, I wish I were born in a Scandinavian |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
15. Someone call in the white coats. We got a thinker on our hands. |
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xiamiam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
16. i'm humiliated that we continue with wars and occupation..not proud of the mechanism of profit and |
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Wait Wut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 12:15 PM Response to Original message |
17. Not sure if "proud" is the correct word. |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
20. I am proud to live in America...we've been going down the wrong rode |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
21. No. Not at all. nt |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
22. I'm proud of my ideals, not the spot of ground I was born on. |
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 02:38 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. I've never heard that point of view expressed that way before. |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
24. Nope. nt |
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Peacetrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 02:39 PM Response to Original message |
25. I am always proud to be an American.. |
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Cyrano (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-06-11 03:14 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Okay. Perhaps you can tell us why. |
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