[killJOY]

It's like asking do I love my left nut.

I speak no other language, have lived nowhere else, and am connected to the land.

I'm continually reading American history and works by American authors.

We have an on-going project here at home figuring out how they did it here in the 1830s.


The government and about 60% of the people are howlingly insane, however.

[RonMN]

KillJOY Wrote:
It's like asking do I love my left nut.

::lol::

While I haven't "lived" anywhere else, I've traveled to many other countries & I have never seen a place I would rather live!

Sure America has it's problems, but it's the best place I've ever seen anywhere. It is us, the people, that need to do a better job TELLING the Gov't what to do (or dismanteling the gov't & put a new one in it's place that WILL listen to the people).

It's our one & only constitutional obligation, and we're failing at it.

[holmes]

the turd world extras human biomass is growing exponentially along with the cretenous fat pig gestapo. But still love it. For now....

[shakespear1]

I love it with all its faults.

It is not perfect ut few place come close to giving someone opportunities that one gets in the US.

Bill Gates would have gotten nowhere in Russia , China or India.

To trick the people is easy, thus America has been ticked. Those running the show are not true Americans. They hijacked this nation on a bankrupt trajectory. The real ones are found in small towns of Vermont, Wisconsin, Arkansas etc.

[shakespear1]

Here is a good example of what I was referring to above.

Lawyer

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'Gitmo ‘Attack Dog’ Turns on His Pentagon Masters
Military lawyer ‘puts career on line’ to question fairness of commission system he had championed
by William Glaberson')

Reminds me of the policeman who warned me not to walk on Lake Superior ice in winter when I was 9 yr. old. I had just arrived in USA

[steam_cannon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('shakespear1', 'I') love it with all its faults.

It is not perfect ut few place come close to giving someone
opportunities that one gets in the US.

Bill Gates would have gotten nowhere in Russia , China or India.

To trick the people is easy, thus America has been ticked. Those
running the show are not true Americans. They hijacked this nation
on a bankrupt trajectory. The real ones are found in small towns of
Vermont, Wisconsin, Arkansas etc.

[shakespear1]

I was thinking along the lines of being able to start a business, find money and be a self starter.

In Russia you are correct, the mob is the equivalent of innovative business model. However even here you would need connections

[Roy]

I love the "idea" of America, much much more than the reality that exists here, and now.

The ideals expressed in teh Constitution, though they may be distasteful to fascists, communists, monarchists, and socialists are revolutionary in and of themselves.

The whole concept of liberty and freedom of interference from government is an anomaly in world history. The lone exception in all of recorded history.

Regrettably, most of my fellow citizens fail to grasp that, and vote for ever more government, war, and taxes.

Which is why I believe this country, as a functional political entity is totally fucked. I hate that but I can't see any other outcome.

That brings me great sadness when I actually stop to think about our situation and our 'preference' for Clinton, Obama, and McAmnesty.

Three birds of a feather as far as I'm concerned.

[efarmer]

Sure, she is lovable without a doubt.

(pssssst how do you get this working both ways?)

[sandbyme]

I say we buy 50 million electric vehicles, paint them all red white and blue and give them away.

The $507 billion wasted in Iraq would have bought 43 million of them.

The projected 1 trillion dollars would have bought how many?
80 MILLION

God help us all if we do not change now,
A Patriot

[phaster]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cynus', 'I')'m actually only interested in hearing from posters who answer "yes" and what their reasons are. (If someone wants to start another post called "why do you hate America" for America-haters to post their reasons, that would be OK.)

[9]

I love America's past. I am unsure of it's future.

[big_rc]

AMERICA IS WONDERFUL !!

I have been to ~ 40 countries in my travels around the world and there is no country that has what the US has (although I will take Brazil's female population any day of the week). If you have the guts, gumption and smarts to do something, then this is the country for you.

[Cid_Yama]

<i>Cid Yama need not post here.</i>

<i><b>I love America.</b></i>

I love it so much, I fight with every word I type to prevent it's Constitution from being trampled beneath the jackboots of the scum suckin' Bush Administration and it's corporate masters.

I took an oath to defend the Constitution from enemies both foreign <b>and domestic</b>. That oath is sacred.

The North American Union that the Bush Administration is working so hard towards, will mean the end of the Constitution, the end of the United States of America. If you love America, now is the time to stand up and defend it's very existence.

That is, unless you <b>want</b> to live in Mexamerada.

Just so you know, the U.S.A.F. is on the side of the American people. Let people know they will not be alone.

Read some Thomas Paine someday and find out what America is really supposed to be.
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[btu2012]

Yes. The Republic as an ideal, free speech, human rights, the constitution. The melting pot. Creativity, dynamism, directness.

Current situation is quite bad, but there is still hope.

Btu

[btu2012]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', 'I') took an oath to defend the Constitution from enemies both foreign <b>and domestic</b>. That oath is sacred.

[Nickel]

"America"?

The hemisphere? Yes.

The country that usurps its name like France referring to itself alone as "Europe"? Well, not as much as I once did. It was a country to admire and whose lead could be followed once. It sure isn't now. And I don't know if it has the will to be again. It seems like being a pushy bully without an ounce of regard for friend or foe is just too soft an option for them to pass up.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')o you love America