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That's only because we really are better than everybody else.

It's the system that is better and you just happened to be lucky enough to be born into it. Your comment basically reinforces his claim. Arrogance is greatest before a fall. Perhaps you should try and stay humble as God would have you.

Well SOMEBODY had to build that system, it didn't just appear magically in 1776.

America has given more to the world, and asked for damn near nothing in return, more than any other nation on Earth. When there is a disaster in the world, it is America that everyone turns to with their hand stretched out for help. When the oppressed are praying for freedom, it is invariably America who delivers that freedom to them. America has given away billions upon billions of dollars to those in need, only to be pissed on by ungrateful slobs who lack the intellectual firepower to resist the never-ending America-hating which is a regular staple of the Euro-weenie crowd, who had to depend on America not once, but twice, to save them from tyrants run amok.

Even post 9/11, the #1 destination of immigrants all over the world is America, they swim, they sail, they walk, they crawl, they fly, they DIE in their efforts to reach U.S. soil and the freedoms and opportunities that America represents.

What you are mistaking for arrogance in Dfwgator is pride in his Country, which isn't misplaced. There is an old saying, something along the lines of "it ain't braggin, if it's true". And the truth is, Americans are among the most generous and compassionate people on the face of the planet, and were it not for the United States and Ronald Reagan, YOU my FRiend from Germany just might be answering to the likes of Erich Honecker even today. Make no mistake about it, due to the perseverence and courage of leaders like Reagan and Thatcher, the West won the Cold War, and Soviet Communism died, and not a moment too soon.

Does that make Americans better than everyone else? That's not up to me to say, but the world sure forgets in a hurry that they were only one superpower away from a global Soviet Empire until that final collapse of the U.S.S.R.

You're Welcome.

It's the system that is better and you just happened to be lucky enough to be born into it.

This is unfair. The U.S. Constitution is a work of political genius, to be sure. But a lot has happened here since the Constitution was ratified in 1789. In the 1970s we were in danger of losing everything to the socialists. But the American people wisely chose the course of freedom. And we will continue to do so. Was Clarence Thomas lucky to become as capable and visionary as he is? Did he wind up on the Supreme Court by luck? Of course not. Justice Thomas worked hard and according to a vision to become what he is. And he was appointed through the vision and hard work of many others (and he was confirmed despite the strident opposition of the socialists). This is not luck, and it is not a well-crafted system running on auto-pilot. Good things happen because good people conceive of them and then work to make them happen. This is why we have Justice Alito instead of Harriet Meiers. This sort of thing, large and small, happens in America every day. That is why we are still free.

Our system is great because we keep it that way with blood, treasure, sweat and tears. Perhaps Euros should tend to their own chaotic disaster at the EU and stop lecturing the USA. In the future perhaps the Euros might have the humility to NOT lecture the USA. We ARE the reason you all have the current Free, Democratic political systems that run your country instead of some form of authoritarian dictatorships. You might want to remember how you all have, and are, hiding behind America's shield. We ask nothing for this service other then you shut up the pompous self important lecturing and let us get on with the job.

It's the system that is better and you just happened to be lucky enough to be born into it. Your comment basically reinforces his claim. Arrogance is greatest before a fall. Perhaps you should try and stay humble as God would have you.

Luck had nothing to do with our being born into this system. Rather the good Lord blessed us. That said, you are correct regarding pride going before a fall. God has blessed America, but more and more I see our country turning their back on what the Lord has given us. Many on these boards are convinced God is an American and our Constitution is the Bible. Russia has major problems, but she is turning back towards the Lord. The greatest revival in the last 300 years is happening there, not here.