Reply #139: I am American and I am not insulted [View All]

[reggie the dog]

Bush started an illegal, immoral war under false pretenses. He said it was a crusade (W. is a history major like me so he knows damn well the connotation of "crusade" in the context). I am glad someone insulted bush. I have an anti war shirt that I wear often, I never voted for W. I think he is a disgrace, I use videos at school with images of signs saying "bush lied millions died". I am a fan of the "fuck bush" shirts and I can understand that the office of president, like any office, is open to insult. Why is W. so insulted? Probably because he abused the office he was ELECTED to. W. is a disgrace to the office of President of the United States. He is my president even thought I never voted for him so yes part of the insult against W. is against me but you know what? I can deal with it. I understand that the USA is probably so far to the right because of media manipulation. Perhaps people like me (I fancy myself to be part of the talented tenth) have not done enough to spread the message that yes, some people are smarter than others, and yes some people understand more about the world they live in but that if you find youself in this category you should use you wits to HELP those less fortunate than youself. The whole problem I see around the world is people using their "wits" to outsmart other people who are less intelligent then they are. At any rate my country chose W. in 2004 and sad to say he is my president and sad to say we all should be ashamed of him and sad to say beacause of him people around the world have come to despise us Americans. It is to the point that I try to pass for French when I am in other EU countries. Hell, I went to get hash on the street in Bruxelles last month and there was grafitti in the "muslim" neighborhoods saying things like the mild "fuck USA" to the more violent "die America". I told the people I was buying from that I was French, but my accent gave me away and I admitted that I had grown up in the USA but insisted that I was French (I have the nationality thanks to my wife) but that my parents worked in the USA for a while. They asked about W. and the war and were really cool when I said I thought the war was BS. Then they asked about what life was like in the USA and I explained that it was too dog eat dog, they said they had heard that before too and that they were happy to live in Belgium. At any rate I am ashamed of W. and my country and the only bit of redemption we have at the moment is electing somone who is not white (yes in many places around the world this is what makes us Americans look cooler again). Now if only Obama could really change the country for the better then perhaps people would no longer feel the need to insult the office of the President or Americans. America has to be cool to other countries for that to happen though.