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10/10/09
"Finally we have a President who likes Broccoli."
So now we can add Broccoli to the list.
10/10/09
Oh, and how about: Rooting for the USA. (see Olympics, Chicago, 2016)
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They think that all this repetition will eventually cause it to sink in with the American people, but what they don't realize (and never have realized) is that it's desensitizing Americans to these terms at the same time. If everything in America is "un-American", then being un-American *is* American, as strange as that sounds. I mean, you go back to the campaign, when Sarah Palin called small-town West Virginia (or whatever) "real America" - is it ever a good idea to call the 80% of the country that actually lives in urban areas "not real America"? I think all those un-Americans consider themselves Americans, so if they're un-American, then everything else American must be too.
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Of course, and this is the part that is so hard for some people to take, single-handedly changed the image of the US in the world by becoming president, a literal overnight transformation that was celebrated with dancing in the streets of the capitals of Japan, Australia, Lebanon, France, Nigeria, the UK, Germany, all major US cities, and many Canadian ones.
The nuclear arms thing may seem weirdly a throwback, but it is still relevant as we and our friends in Russia still have the majority of the world's nuclear weapons, and while other threats may seem more, say, scary, we can still blow the crap out of each other. It's all well and good to be scared of what could happen as a result of Afghanistan and Iraq, or to worry about Iran, but as long as we have our weapons, the nuclear threat is real.
People who say "it's too soon" are engaging in historical amnesia that involves forgetting that at this time last year we were being told McCain was going to pull it out of the bag, no one would REALLY vote for a black president and we'd be in on a third war on a third front with Iran, courtesy of the Iran Working Group, which Liz Cheney was a member of, a descendant of the Iraq Working Group which created the war in Iraq.
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As for spontaneous celebrations abroad, you'd have to go to JFK, or FDR for those, but having lived outside the US a good bit, I can tell you that Clinton is VERY popular.
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1. Writing books.
2. Being a politician.
3. Wearing suits.
4. Being married with kids.
5. Pallin' around with terrorists.
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That's always been un-American. Except of course for Condoleeza Rice and Ward Connerly.
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