2007-08-16 18:15:46 · 15 answers · asked by simichka 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Well... I suspect you've realized that the electoral college in America is a big show to make us *seem* like we get a say in all this...
Who was Prez when the planes hit the towers?
Who was Prez when we FIRST went to war with Iraq?
Who was Prez when the insurance companies took over our healthcare?
Who has more money in oil interests than any other president in US History?
Who Is the first president in over 50 years (at least) to have an approval rating of 23% for more than 6 months?
Who is the 1st and 2nd prez's to try to legalize spying on citizens in their homes?
Who was the 1st prez (in HISTORY) to order that tax money be diverted from public schools and into churches instead???
Who has been prez during the absolute highest gas prices (returning record profits) since the beginning of his 1st term?
Whose presidency was both denied, challenged and then declared in the state where his brother was Governor at the time?
When its really bad... it's republican... and usually a Nixon or a Bush.
2007-08-16 18:23:58 · answer #1 · answered by rabble rouser 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
The British government arrested and imprisoned Mahatma Gandhi and at one time embraced the policy of appeasement as an appropriate response to Hitler.
At one time the French Republic accepted Hitler's control of Paris and tacitly participated in the Holocaust.
Then of course there is the whole Nazism thing in Germany and Japan's imperialist drive in Asia.
Should all of these people be ashamed of their nation, it's institutions, and it's culture? Should they discount all the worthy achievements their societies have made over the years?
Americans have every right to be proud of their nation, it's institutions, and it's history. They're the people that restored the process of the adoption of liberalism and legal rights in the English speaking and eventually the western world by their revolution. They are the people that drove the effort to preserve the values of liberalism in the western world against the growth of fascism. There is lots of good in their institutions. If they are making mistakes now, what they need to do is take more pride in the country and make it right. Not just throw up their hands and retreat. Don't denigrate them for having pride in their home and their culture.
2007-08-17 04:34:44 · answer #2 · answered by Johnny Canuck 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
America has had disastrous Presidents before, like Herbert Hoover, and we've survived. No matter how much of a dips**t our President is, this country and the people of this country are the best in the world - except for the right-wing fundamentalists. I don't think we're defensive, but we will kick some a.ss if people start talkin sh*t.
2007-08-17 01:31:40 · answer #3 · answered by Jason 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, we have a shitty president for now. That will be changing soon enough.....I promise!
But for most of us, it's home. We love it in good times and bad and it can be a great place to live. We won't give up on it just because times are tough.
If people were constantly stereotyping you and your country, and saying all kinds of untrue mean things, would you stand up and defend your country?.......I would hope so.
Don't believe everything the media tells you, and don't buy into stupid stereotypes!
Have a nice day;)
2007-08-20 09:54:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are some citizens of the US who are defensive, but I think you're confusing defensiveness about the administration and defensiveness about our country.
Most Americans I know are proud to be Americans, just embarrassed and ashamed of the administration.
2007-08-17 01:25:27 · answer #5 · answered by katydid 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The president sucks our country doesn't
2007-08-17 03:36:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we are the best of the best and most of us still believe that we can overcome any obstacle in front of us, even a shortsighted, corrupt, expletive like Bush.
2007-08-17 02:55:02 · answer #7 · answered by GJ 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He may be an idiot, but he's our idiot.
Edit: Let me clarify. The president is only human. No one in the US expects him to be perfect. We respect the office if not the man.
2007-08-17 01:23:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
well... it's just like anything else that you're a member of...
like a family... even if your sister is stupid... you don't like to hear other people make fun of her for being stupid...
granted... you shouldn't make her the head of the family, if she is stupid though...
even criticism that is well founded is often hard for many to take...
2007-08-17 01:29:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
lack of education / propoganda pumped into them
we laugh at the Russians having been brainwashed. we are in much worse shape.
2007-08-17 01:28:08 · answer #10 · answered by Mildred S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋