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Old 10-18-2008, 03:28 PM
 
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Pro-America means they LOVE America.

Those spewing hate about AMERICA means they are ANTI-AMERICA.

Most of Obama's supporters are ANTI-AMERICA because they hate capitalism which is the core economic belief of the American people for reaching the American Dream.

A vote for OBAMA means a vote for the END OF THE AMERICAN DREAM.
Actually, being pro American is defending the constitution, ensuring the govt upholds the rights of the people, and to honor the vote and change in govt as determined by the electoral college. Nothing to do with a specific economic system. We change that all the time.
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Old 10-18-2008, 03:28 PM
 
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Please be honest with yourself! I've always been proud to be an American, but there have been times when I've not been so proud of how our government has acted. I'm sure most people have felt this also.
Yes. The last 8 years.
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Old 10-18-2008, 03:29 PM
 
Location: T or C New Mexico
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Ouch! that didn't hurt. Ouch! that didn't hurt. Ouch! will you please stop throwing stones? It's not working......
Hate in America, of course, you must mean, the hateful messages shouted at the rallies of palin & Mcsame? like kill him, terrorist, off with his head stuff?
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Originally Posted by ShoppingCartLaw View Post
Pro-America means they LOVE America.

Those spewing hate about AMERICA means they are ANTI-AMERICA.

Most of Obama's supporters are ANTI-AMERICA because they hate capitalism which is the core economic belief of the American people for reaching the American Dream.

A vote for OBAMA means a vote for the END OF THE AMERICAN DREAM.

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Old 10-18-2008, 03:30 PM
 
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Palin is not going to win this election if she disses off urban America (the so-called anti-American regions of the US). Most of the voters live in urban USA. What is she trying to do pandering to rural America? Trying to woo the votes of cattle?
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Old 10-18-2008, 03:34 PM
 
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You can love this coutry all you want.

But stealing from the rich is not Pro American.
But expecting the wealthy to pay their fair share is pro-American.
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Old 10-18-2008, 03:35 PM
 
Location: T or C New Mexico
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Anti-American Scum? Looks like they're exercising their rights to freely assemble and speech? if the photos were taken in the USA. I suppose it'd be fine with you if they were shot down like dogs?

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Maybe she means these anti-american scum?









Maybe the areas where these creatures live?
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Old 10-18-2008, 03:38 PM
 
Location: T or C New Mexico
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You can love this coutry all you want.

But stealing from the rich is not Pro American.
Excuse me, it's spelled COUNTRY
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Old 10-18-2008, 03:41 PM
 
Location: In the Rocky Mountains
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There are times when my heart swells with pride for America and there are times when I am not at all proud.....when I hear of war atrocities, when the Attorney Gen. advises the President how he can use torture and get away with it; when corporate greed depletes the life savings of retirees and then after getting bailed out the ones responsible, throw themselves a weekend costing those same taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars...for hotels and spa treatments.....I am not proud. When I see the mentally ill sleeping on the street and our veterans sleeping underbridges or being warehoused in mold infested wards..tormented by the nightmares of this needless war..when I see the promise of children being wasted in rat infested dilapidated schools and their hope and vision stamped out.....when I see mothers and fathers having to teach their kids how to handle the hateful names they will be called or their teen agers how to avoid being arrested and beaten by the policemen because of the color of their skin.....I am not proud.

When I hear Senator Obama re state the American dream and tell us what is possible, when I see Joe Biden stand up and say "I am sick of the division sick of the lies, sick sick sick of it!" I am proud.....when I see the acts of kindness that Americans do for others I am proud, when I read the stirring words of our founders and the promise of America I am proud.

It is very possible to be both proud and indignant and angry today in America.....I think if your not....there is something wrong with you. America needs to be all she can be.....and Yes We Can. There is much to be proud of and much to be dissatisfied and indignant about.....that shows a real understanding of what we have accomplished and how much there remains for us to do.
I agree. Excellent post!
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Old 10-18-2008, 03:54 PM
 
Location: Metro-Detroit area
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Pro-America means they LOVE America.

Those spewing hate about AMERICA means they are ANTI-AMERICA.

Most of Obama's supporters are ANTI-AMERICA because they hate capitalism which is the core economic belief of the American people for reaching the American Dream.

A vote for OBAMA means a vote for the END OF THE AMERICAN DREAM.
Like Mr.T says, "I pity the fools"!!!
Anti America is when the military are used as pawns to invade another country because of WOMD we know never existed.
Fighting a war so that oil families can get richer, keep their monopoly on oil business, and allow their friends to get richer through their no bid government contracts.

We don't hate capitalism, we hate jobs being outsourced so multinational companies that originated in this country but has no allegiance to it can make the rich richer.
We hate the republican mantra of "Let the free market work" while behind the scenes they do all in their power to look out for one another through corporate tax breaks, anti union laws and legislation, outsourcing, part time work at 39.5 hours a week to avoid paying benefits, etc.
We hate the fact that people we see their economic futures slipping away. mortgage in foreclosure, no economy, rich getting richer faster everyday. More money has been pulled from the midleclass in this last decade than any other time in history, this money goes to the super wealthy, and the people are being told, that's capitalism.

For more and more each day the American Dream is just that, a Dream; and the best the republicans will offer many is that the opposition "pals around with former domestic terrorists". His middle name is "Hussein". His wife isn't proud of this country, which is a statement she never made.

This country under the mind set of more and more republicans seem to be taking us into an American Third Reich, where any indepedent or contrary thought is considered unpatriotic.

More people should be reading George Orwell's Animal Farm.
He has this country pegged on the spot.
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Old 10-18-2008, 04:16 PM
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Location: Wisconsin
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Ignorance is running rampant and there are some politicians who promote and depend upon it. A High School civics course would do a great deal to quiet some of the agitation stemming from the confusion between democracy and economics.

It was pinko's like Lincoln, who freed the slaves and FDR was an anti-American socialist.....and on it goes.
While talking with my daughter yesterday I told her that, were I made president for a day in America, the FIRST thing I would do is pass a law that required every single American, from Kindergarten through college, to take a civics class every single semester. And I would require that they would have to take a refresher course each time they renewed the their driver's license. It is so obvious that fewer and fewer Americans understand our constitution, our structure of government, and our rights and responsibilities as citizens. And because people don't understand it is easier for those who wish to do so to steal our freedom from us.
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