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It seems to me that from reading many of the political posts on here, many people hate America so much they want this stimulus bill to fail. Millions of people have lost their jobs, but hey! as long as Obama fails, it is all worth it. This is just as pathetic as listening to the far left rant for the last 4 years about Iraq and wanting Bush to fail. It is one thing to disagree, but another to wish failure.
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That's the part that gets me. Most outsiders (like myself) find American patriotism inspiring, regardless of whether we are in agreement over any particular political issue or not. Many times we hear the line that if we loved our country as much as the Americans do theirs, we would become stronger and more progressive.
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united we stand/divided we fall American solidarity seems to be increasingly displaced by a destructive partisan back-biting mentality that smacks of the typical Middle Eastern sectarian infighting and appears to place party and political idealogy above country. Hatred for Obama seems stronger than love of America and those who shout the loudest about being patriots appear to be praying for the nation to suffer and fall just so they can revel in his failure and find comfort in the vindication of their party-line dogma and rhetoric. No doubt, if McAin't and Sarah Failin' (wink!) had been chosen by the majority, non-patriots of another stripe would be doing the same bloody thing.
The US soldier blasting the Iraqi police in the other thread lambasted them for being more loyal to their sectarian affiliations than to their own country - Maybe when he's done over there, he can come home and take his show on the road for the benefit of the once proud and patriotic American people who stood before the world as a shining example of the gritty, work together, can-do stuff that made a nation great.