[jnygrl]

I don't know. My liberal friend and her husband were at a shop in Montreal (not really overseas but different anyway!) and stood there in agreement while he derided Americans and the United States. I took her to task on that...it really disgusted me. To stand there and take that crap and agree with it while the shop owner gladly accepts your AMERICAN cash...disgusting.

We're far from perfect but I will never allow anyone to speak like that of the land that I love.

[SMARTY]

In the meantime, anyone and everyone comes here and we roll out the red carpet. In fact, try a stunt like that with someone visiting here or a foreign born and you will be charged with a hate crime.

[passionfruit]

I think some of your text was omitted. What did your friends decide?

[unkus]

Your experience in Montreal proves my point.

[mpackard]

This is why (at least ONE reason) that I dont have liberal friends. I do have a few friends who are southern Dems but none who are liberal. We have COMPLETELY different world views and I just dont have time!!! : )

[philled]

I was on a Napa winery tour shortly after the 2004 election. While were waiting to get back on the bus, we were in small groups engaging in polite small talk. A retired man from MO, upon hearing an Australian accent, inserted himself into a conversation our party was having. He introduced himself, proceeded to denounce Bush, the "fools" that voted for him, and asked if there was room enough for "his kind" to move "down under" to escape.

He had unwittingly approached my Australian sister-in-law. I stepped over to her, extended my hand and introduced myself. I stated that I was the complete opposite of the man she had just met. I continued on that I loved Australia and its people nearly as much as I do my own. I pointed out that while Australians are sometimes derided as "a coarse people" (especially among the elites in the UK), we definitely have our share of them as well- they are just sometimes indiscriminant in their exercise of their right of freedom of speech. I welcomed her to the USA, thanked her for the strong allegiance our nations share and that I was quite fond of Prime Minister Howard.

She flashed a smile but did not let on that we were not strangers. She embraced me, said it was very good to be in America, that a good man was re-elected and (while looking at the intrusive man) stated that she "hoped to meet a good many more of the sixty million".

Had he a tail, it would have been between his legs as he slunk back to his rather embarrassed-looking wife...