Anti-Americans had me in tears on the Fourth of July

Daily Telegraph ^ | 07/06 | Julia Magnet

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

With friends like this, who needs enemies?

[Paleo Conservative]

"The Republicans pick people for character traditionally and set up a really intelligent strong team behind them. I don't think we have to worry with Colin Powell and Rumsfeld."

Unlike the Clinton administration where Clinton would appoint mental pygmies in order to make himself look brilliant.

[ginle]

exactly.

[krb]

"Oh, you're American." Then comes a barrage of questions and assertions about Bush and America's place in the world. If you can clear such political minefields, you find yourself with some friends for life, whose political attitudes about America do not extend to their opinion of individual Americans.

That's where we are different. That would be a filter for me. I long ago got tired of feeling like I was the only person who really understood the miraculous experiment in personal freedom our country is. Those blokes just don't get it.

If you are the type of person who takes this stuff personally (they make you cry?!?!?), then you need to move on.

[CaptRon]

I'm in the middle of Ann Coulter's new book. These conversations could have been included; unsubstantiated opinions, with no basis in truth, stated as fact. The M.O. of the left.

[Bob J]

I wondered out loud why they were convinced that he was so dumb. The answer was a bit feeble: "Our media has hyped him as stupid.

The Media is the Real Enemy

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

The author sounds like a whiney apologist - instead of standing up and defending her homeland, she "politely" asks her friends why they hate America.......she provides a fertile atmosphere for the denegration of our President and the actions of our country, instead of encouraging actual discussion of differing opinions. She got exactly what she deserved for being such a wimp.......

[mountaineer]

"I really like America, but I don't think their political system inspires much confidence."

What is it about freedom that so frightens Europeans? It's like a massive case of contintent-wide arrested development, a bunch of children who want the government to be their mommies and daddies and take care of them forever.

[BunnySlippers]

We wanted the other guy, what's his name? - Gore - to win."

Gorons! What does this guy expect? He's should try hanging out with Maggie Thatcher-ites.

[poet]

In addition, clinton lifted the rocks to find his vermin of the 60s radical left.

[Red Jones]

bump

[poet]

"What is it about freedom that so frightens Europeans? It's like a massive case of contintent-wide arrested development, a bunch of children who want the government to be their mommies and daddies and take care of them forever."

Just like the Americans who have been "educated" by gov't schools. Just look at the latest polls wherein a majority of Americans don't see anything wrong with loss of our freedoms and are willing to give up their liberty in the name of security.

Unless we return the education systems to local control, you will be saying the same thing about young Americans. Thet are being "taught" to "feel" rather than think. They can't even do multiplication in their heads or point off a decimal. Ask some youngsters what 10% of anything is w/o using a calculator and see what kind of replies you receive.

[dr_who]

You're a weenie.

[VRW Conspirator]

Nice read.

Point #1: The founders of this country rebelled against the Brittish rule - Thank God.

Point #2: The Brits are responsible for more wars and strife than any other country, ever. Look at India, South Africa and most of the middle east. It was the incessant meddling of the Brittish Empire that fomented conflicts in these regions. (Look what they did not do for Poland after WW2)

Point #3: These fools at that party, in fact, do not "get it". America is the UK's best and biggest ally. Those ingrates have long forgotten WW2.

Point #4: Socialists the world around are simply envious of the wealth and power of the US. They dream and drool over the prospect of looting America.

[Ohioan]

The Media is the Real Enemy

The Media is part of the real enemy. You have to look at the roots of the Media in American Academia, where they are trained. It is in that leftwing mindset, that the problem arises. And you need to understand that patriotism is deliberately targeted in academia. (See Myths & Myth Makers In American "Higher" Education.)

We are in a War in which the Left (particularly those of the Fabian variety) set out to capture the bastions of the verbal arts, and accomplished that mission. Part of the war on private firearms, is their effort to consolidate that victory, by destroying other means of confrontation.

We need to keep our liberties intact and to take back academia. Then we will all be really able to celebrate the Fourth again.

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[VOA]

At a dinner party in the autumn, a boy I'd just met said: "You know, basically bin Laden is right."

"Anti-semitism was rather fashionable, until Hitler came along and over-did it."
(comment from a WWII-era British officer about the anti-Jewish sentiment in pre-WWII England)

Looks like it's "old times again".