What war were you in Jack? Racism? Much of the racism in this country isn't by
white people. It gets old hearing about it it is time for people to take
responsibility for their own actions.
Obama doesn't hav enough experience and when things don't go his way he cries
racism but that is alright. Let's hope whe there is an emergency he has time
to rehearse a response. I hope that Biden is sleeping next to him if the phone
rings at 3AM.
--- On Tue, 9/30/08, Jack Pitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Jack Pitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [AsburyPark] Re: it's getting better all the time
To: AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 11:22 PM
Here's a few things that you didn't notice:
Torture.
A war based on lies.
Our greed effecting the entire world.
Racism.
We're fat as hell.
Religion and it's effect on our countries policies.
We stare at boxes (i.e. TV, internet, cell phones)
Ball players make more then teachers.
Get sick and spend the rest of your life paying for it.
Stupid people buying houses they can't afford, and lenders making jokes about
our
stupidity.
Conspicuous consumption.
Britney Spears was headline news.
Our music sucks.
We invented the crawl at the bottom of the screen, and we now use tiny little
sound bytes
to think that we actually know what's going on in the world.
We have a candidate for VP that thinks being close to Russia is foreign policy
experience.
We "elected" GW Bush to be our president, and during his 8 years in
office...blah blah blah.
So yeah, we're just fine. Great. Greatest country on the planet. Slightly more
then 200
years old, and we've got it all figured out. And we have true blue American's
like
traderdube to cheer us along.
Right.
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. wrote:
>
> I am so sick of hearing people decry our country.
> Patriotism and the practice thereof became a silent issue not too long ago.
> Maybe for good reasons, there were a whole lot of flags flying.
> But this other extreme, this amplification of Michelle Obama's statement that
> she was
FINALLY proud to be an American is sickening.
> If your not proud to be an American the door swings both ways.
> We welcome the sick and oppressed and the tired and the poor and we will
> gladly slam
the door on the butts of the spoiled rotten who are blinded by the light that
is America.
>
>
> tommi boy and gabbi wrote"Posted by: "Gabrielle Obre" gabrielleobre@ ...
> gabrielleobre
> Mon Sep 29, 2008 7:24 am (PDT)
>
>
> >
> > You said this:
> >
> > "As Americans we are
> > constantly distracted by the superficial, disconnected from our
> > communities, we avoid genuine involvement with our local governments
> > and we provide wealth to the companies that screw us in the end. We
> > are intellectually lazy and narcissistic. We care only how we look,
> > what we drive and how that compares to others.
> >
> > I blame American anti intellectualism for a big chunk of that and am
> > amazed that "elite" could be considered a derogatory remark."
> >
> >
> > So you made a sweeping generalization about a group to which I
> > belong. You even anticipagted our counter-arguement (elitism) in
> > your post.
> >
> > Did you really expect me, as part of the group you criticized, to not
> > respond?
> >
> > You posted something not too long ago about fascism stopping speech.
> > Yet here in practice, on this board, you try the same.
> >
>
> as you can clearly see, i included myself in that group. i am an
> american tommy so don't throw that rovian tribal bs at me. i have two
> family members that fought in the am rev and a couple in the civ war.
> they did not fight for what this country has become. we have become
> soulless, narcissistic and yes.. ignorant. not stupid. we need to move
> to a world centric perspective or we are not going to make it.
>
> paris hilton gets more media play than any elected official. football
> players make more money than teachers. there is an ad in the TCN for a
> "G-Spot shot". WE are pathetic, and WE can be so much more.
>
> throw the elite label at me all you want, i won't go into the many
> reasons why its absurd to throw it my way. and you didn't prove i said
> i was smarter than everyone else and now you also have to prove i have
> tried to quash anyone from posting. i have been begging for
> discussion. i even suggested we all hang out.
>
> i know its rough and all with the white christian male pedestal
> crumbling. i have a picture in my mind...this old angry white guy
> standing on a rock. limp and shadow boxing. clinging, clinging,
> clinging (thats the same as wanting wanting wanting). come on down
> tommy, it'll be ok and its going to be so much more FUN!
>
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