I dont really see any reason to be proud of my country.

Though I am not proud of many things happening today,
I am extremely positive and proud of the principals that are who we can be.

I am exceptionally grateful for all those who through out American history have contributed and sacrificed so much for these same principals.

I have driven across country, and lived in several distinct locations. Americans
are a remarkable people. We are also widely varied, and it is this diversity that makes us incredibly strong.

I believe in this country enough, that as a patriot I intend to do what I can to fight
to preserve and maintain these American Values.



Further, I would challenge or dear friend Rad to live else where for a time.
How about Central Africa? Or maybe Eastern Europe?
I suspect Rad lacks perspective to know how good it is here,
or the more esoteric, potentially how good it could be!

Question?
Who would be the better person to ask this question,
Rad, or Zooks?
And why is that?


Edit to add this.....
I have thought about this thread,
and again it seems clear to me that Rads intention is to sow derision and discourse.

Once again I accuse Rad of being a Freeper Troll,
and this stupid act of his is deliberate and is intended to be wedge material.

I suspect that Rad is NOT a high school student,
but rather a leader of the freak parade!


Sorry Rad, but you're not near as clever as you think you are.
Go play on the DU forum!

I am willing to die for America.

I'm very proud to be an American. If I had come of age in the past five years I might think differently. Our children are being robbed of their heritage, their treasure, our national values, and perhaps hope. I hope we can once again demonstrate our greatness for them by defeating the corporate facists who seem to have us so firmly in their grasp with their culture of greed, corruption, dishonesty and a desire to perpetuate their absolute power indefinitely.

I chose (and choose) to believe that I am a patriot. I work daily to help the US live up to the promise of its constitution. I served in the army 35 years ago, which means little other than that I once swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution of The United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I occasionally re-read that oath, and I am stricken at each reading that the oath has no indicated expiration date. I assume that I am still under oath, as I was not released from it when I was (honorably) discharged.

Well, I do consider some current politicans domestic threats.

Only some?

SOME current politicians, in my eyes, are True Hero's.

I'm a Canadian, so I come at this topic from a totally different direction (North, probably).

I'll leave you Americans to toot your own horns for a bit .

i picked below average because there are alot of things wrong with this country.
bush. patriot act. war. fascism. capitalism. neo-cons. war profitee ring. racism. hmmm waht else?? did i metion the lies corruption and greed? well those aer the reasons.

you forgot Wal Mart, no health care, racial problems, urban sprawl, crime, capital punishment, history of slavery, class warfare, .... too many

oh yeah..i i knew i was forgetting alot of things...haha

If we are not willing to suffer any indignity, any pain, any sorrow, to ensure a better life for those that come after us, then what is the point? Why continue? Why get in the way of those who do wish such?

Damn I want a new administration, that it leaves such a thought upon our children, that AMERICA is at fault. The idea of America is to beautiful for these common men to destory.

Where is the man with the plow?

Bush says of the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper'

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publ...icle_7779.shtml

(BTW, Thompson defends his reputation - http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publ...cle_7787.shtml)

Bush is a Straussian fascist Neocon chickenhawk.

I believe every American who wants Bush impeached is a true American patriot in the truest Constitutional sense of the word (that would mean the majority of US citizens are patriots )

There is a very real likelyhood that Bush never said that.
The source is questionable. (Capitol Hill Blue)

(BTW, Thompson defends his reputation - http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publ...cle_7787.shtml)

Read it Sky!

Dead Link.

I had to pick "I rather dislike my country" because I am pretty fed up with it right now. I'm not seeing anything special - I'm seeing ugly. (not here, mind you. I mean in my daily {off the Internet} life).

I feel like I should apologize to the World for our extraordinary amount of braindead and selfish people who think nothing of sucking up every last drop of oil in order to preserve "The American Way Of Life" - never mind who we have to kill to get it, who don't care (and don't want to know) that the clothes they just bought at Wal-Mart were made by sweatshop labor in foreign countries (and domestic territories) as long as they get to buy it for $9.99, who know more Nascar drivers than they can name presidents, who care more about who gets the job on "Apprentice" than what is happening to our Democracy (what's left of it) and think it's okay for the president to spy on us if it protects us from "terrorists".

Present company excluded, our country must have the most misinformed, uneducated, selfish, arrogant, complacent, lack-of-forsight-or-historical-perspective barbarians since the latter days of the Roman empire.

I'm seeing nothing worth being proud of.

I'm proud of the DREAM of Democracy. That Great Experiment that seems to be failing because of a population that just doesn't give a f@#* and a government that has never given a F@#* about anybody and won't hesitate to wipe out whatever gets in its way.

Sorry for the mini-rant. I'm so tired of the people who just will not bother. Who can't be bothered. Who don't care.

This time of year doesn't help my mood either.

Other –

I love the American people but I strongly dislike the government and ruling business interests.

Before I vote, define Patriotism.

What I consider Patriotism and what that fool in front of me in a gas-guzzling SUV with a Bush-Cheney-04 sticker on it (who supports Bush and the Iraq War) considers Patriotism are about as different as day and night.

Patriotism is a very relative word.