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View Poll Results: How Do You Define The Country?
The Constitution 8 61.54%
A set of ideals as outlined in the Constitution 1 7.69%
The Land 1 7.69%
The People 3 23.08%
Voters: 13. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 02-04-2010, 11:43 AM
 
Location: Riverside, CA
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The Constitution

A set if ideals as outlined in the Constitution

The Land

The People
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Old 02-04-2010, 11:47 AM
 
Location: Texas
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How about all of the above
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Old 02-04-2010, 11:52 AM
 
Location: Riverside, CA
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Please choose the answer that best fits your mindset and an explanation why?

Such as in the case of terrorism, do you support bending the rules of the Constitution or the ideals of the Constitution to protect the people or just the opposite? What made me think of this poll is another thread about what do you love more the Country or the President? I'm curious as to what people define as the Country.
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Old 02-04-2010, 11:52 AM
 
Location: Blankity-blank!
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The poll didn't list my choice;
The land where unbridled capitalism is god, everything must serve capitalism.
People talking about ideals! Are you kidding?
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Old 02-04-2010, 12:04 PM
 
Location: Riverside, CA
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The poll didn't list my choice;
The land where unbridled capitalism is god, everything must serve capitalism.
People talking about ideals! Are you kidding?
Unbridled capitalism, like where the banks do whatever they want for a profit and put our whole financial system at risk. Was Madoff an example of unbridled capitalism in it's purist form (buyer beware) or a criminal? How are defining unbridled? No laws or regulations?
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Old 02-04-2010, 12:07 PM
 
Location: Highland, CA (formerly Newark, NJ)
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A country that has the potential to be as powerful as any nation in history yet its bitter partisanship was its undoing. That being said, I take some blame because I'm guilty of partisanship myself.
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Old 02-04-2010, 12:11 PM
 
Location: Charleston Sc and Western NC
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You don't "bend the rules of the Constitution."
If the government did one of orginal jobs defined by the constitution, defend the country, instead of trying to put it's finger into EVERY private sector pie...terrorism would not be the threat it is today.

This country is defined as a Capitalist Country run by the people who created the Constitution to protect their civil liberties and to defend our land. Unfortunately, the jerks in Washington think they run the place.
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Old 02-04-2010, 12:17 PM
 
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How about all of the above

I second the motion...
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Old 02-04-2010, 07:10 PM
 
Location: Riverside, CA
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A country that has the potential to be as powerful as any nation in history yet its bitter partisanship was its undoing. That being said, I take some blame because I'm guilty of partisanship myself.
Is being the most powerful nation in history really important? Isn't a healthy nation better.
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Old 02-04-2010, 07:20 PM
 
Location: Charleston Sc and Western NC
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Is being the most powerful nation in history really important? Isn't a healthy nation better.

Against the Chinese? No.
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