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1 posted on 03/07/2011 6:09:27 AM PST by jda
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The “View from Crackerville” American Thinker piece was really good as well.


2 posted on 03/07/2011 6:11:59 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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I'm sure it won't be long until we see more of the hyphenated emerge.

Gay-American

Les-American

Pedo-American

Addict-American (AKA "Sheen-American")

Here's one for Obama sycophants

Drone-American

3 posted on 03/07/2011 6:19:10 AM PST by WhatNot (God Bless our troops, especially the snipers.)
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Yes, and Thomas Sowell is my people. And the troubadour who writes songs and sings them at the Tea Parties (there’s that name-forgetting again).


8 posted on 03/07/2011 6:36:46 AM PST by RoadTest (Organized religion is no substitute for the relationship the living God wants with you.)
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We are becoming a nation of tribes.


10 posted on 03/07/2011 8:29:51 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer.")
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It’s long been noted around the world that Americans don’t like to call themselves “American”.

“I’m Irish”, says one, who was neither born in Ireland, is not a citizen of Ireland, does not speak Gaelic, and is Irish only on his mother’s side, his father being half German and half Cherokee.

Compare that to a Jamaican, newly naturalized in Canada, who calls himself “Canadian” with no problem.

The truth of the matter is that being an American means more that a person is associated with an idea, rather than a uniquely national heritage. Americans can be a lot of things.

What is better, if asked what you are, tell them what State you are from. Because States have things associated with them that all Americans do not share. In a manner of speaking, America is like 50 countries.

This is why Americans don’t like to be called “Americans”. Not out of any embarrassment, but because the word “American” isn’t specific enough. It’s like calling yourself a “European”, or “Asian”.

Compare that to what pops into mind when somebody called themselves “a Texan”, or “a New Yorker”. The mind is filled with images of what that might mean.

Now imagine the glee if you say that you’re “a Texan”, and they say, “Oh, you’re like a New Yorker!”

“But, you’re both Americans, aren’t you?”


11 posted on 03/07/2011 8:50:11 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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