tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32787857.post5181238233377210163..comments2023-04-10T10:41:30.095-05:00Comments on Accidental Incidents: America is better than BushPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12247223131125650841noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32787857.post-27860872430916475432009-03-17T15:43:00.000-05:002009-03-17T15:43:00.000-05:00Horrific, and shameful. Perhaps the worst in a lo...Horrific, and shameful. Perhaps the worst in a long list of things wrong with that administration.<BR/><BR/>However, speaking as someone whose 'shame' or 'pride' in being American is a bit more tested -- or at least questioned -- than those generally surrounded by fellow Americans, I believe there has been entirely too much hyperbole around the use of those terms.<BR/><BR/>During the years of the Bush administration I was not ashamed to be an American, and certainly didn't think I should be. I was unhappy that that administration had been elected (or judicially appointed), I was varying degrees of disappointed with the policies of our leadership (on both sides) -- though not all the time, and I agreed with my European friends & neighbors about the state of America more often than I generally liked.<BR/><BR/>However, I do not believe that a country or a people should be judged entirely on their leadership at any one point in time. Just as I don't believe protest against said leadership or practices can truly be branded as 'unAmerican'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com