Being American
One of the best purchases I made at Comic Con was the "We Are Not All Jerks" Shirt from the Dumbrella booth.
Truly, I've been discouraged and ashamed and more than a little hopeless. Being an American just doesn't seem to mean the what I grew up believing it meant.
Bless his gentle heart, Jimmy Carter's speech at the Democratic Convention lays out exactly what needs to be done. He can still see the America I once believed existed. I hope we have the chance to try to get it back.
Meanwhile, I guess I'll just wear my shirt and apologize a lot.
Truly, I've been discouraged and ashamed and more than a little hopeless. Being an American just doesn't seem to mean the what I grew up believing it meant.
Bless his gentle heart, Jimmy Carter's speech at the Democratic Convention lays out exactly what needs to be done. He can still see the America I once believed existed. I hope we have the chance to try to get it back.
Meanwhile, I guess I'll just wear my shirt and apologize a lot.
I like the Buccaneer-Americans shirt.
I don't get the point of apologizing for being American. We could lay down our arms and sing "Kumbaya," invent the cure for HIV, and re-elect Clinton, and most of Europe would still be making catty remarks about how we're fat and loud and if only we would apologize a little more, please, for not being as cultured as our betters (read: Europe). If they haven't figured out that Bush stole the election and we're mad as hell, it's because they don't want to.
mythago are you speaking from personal experiences or just shooting off your mouth (figuratively speaking)? I've been living in France for over four years now, and I have yet to ever experience any of this garbage you refer to. Or maybe a better way to say it is, I don't notice it any more out of the French than I ever did out of other Americans. Assholes are assholes the world over, and France (and I suspect the rest of Europe) doesn't have any higher frequency of them than the US does.