In case you are losing a sense of the American Spirit, lest you forget, here is a reminder.
Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle.
This is a particular frustration for me: these new insincere definitions society is giving to words. We’re so comfortable and safe
feeling that we can treat a word like Patriotism as an opinion indicator. We get to pretend we are pacifists – intellectually and morally superior to the ignoramuses who think war is ever needed – and associate hurt feelings to the word Patriot.
There are plenty of words to describe an idiot who is in complete support of a regime, and usually names specific to regime. What would we call the soldiers right now deploying to Afghanistan who voted for McCain? They’re not patriots? Hell, most the soldiers I’ve had conversation with have a list of problems with the Administration (Clinton, Bush, or Obama) – or just don’t give a shit – but either way do their damn job.
Professor Dove recently said to me:
And I responded:
Obama’s bow to the prime minister would have been at least in reasonable taste had he executed it at all appropriately. And that good taste would only have been due to the cultural effort put forth. But in this case there was no real effort.
You have to watch this one again when some Iraqi reporter threw his shoes at Bush. Watch the video, Bush dodges them in a way that says emphatically that he has dodged shoes and/or shoe-like projectiles in the past. AND – his Secret Service men don’t react right away! The second shoe is spent before they start getting in the way. And the best part is Bush almost enjoyed it. He always looks like he’s in physical pain speaking to the public, and a nice shoe attack gave him a quick break. LOL – he cracked out a big jack-ass smile
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