I have never felt ashamed as an American. Not even with Carter or Clinton as president.
AMEN!
I am proud to be an American and proud of America. It's some of these POTUSes I take exception to.
You say you never feel ashamed to be an American. I understand your point, but I felt ashamed to be an American when this country sent Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba at gunpoint.
I could not believe the high poll numbers that thought it best that this boy be sent back to his ‘father’ in Cuba when it was obvious the father was a tool of Castro. The father wanted the boy to be free. He said so to the Miami relatives. Elian’s mother died so he could be free.
And many of these people were from the conservative community - even Freepers, sad to say, from my perspective.
Elian had a chance to be free, and this country sent him away. FDR did the same when he sent 937 Jews on the ship
MS St. Louis back to Europe, and would not let them disembark on freedom’s shores in 1939. Voyage of the Damned is a great movie about this shameful episode.
I remember a case where President Reagan saved a boy from being returned to communist Poland. Then again, I never felt prouder than when he was our president. I know we cannot save the world, but when people make heroic efforts to come to this great land we should embrace them.
Yes, there are times when I’m ashamed at the things our country does in the name of political expediency or correctness.