Hating America?

[plutherus]

I have, upon occasion, been accused of Hating America, due to my frequent criticism of the Bush administration.

It isn't true, of course. I love America.

And I miss it.

I just hate the people who've destroyed it.

Comments

[reynard52.livejournal.com]

Of course you don't hate America...you just hate Freedom(tm)

[plutherus.livejournal.com]

Hey, Freedom's down to $2.57 a gallon down here now!

Just before the election, too, who could possibly have predicted that?

[reynard52.livejournal.com]

See, Freedom is $2.57 here too...hmmmm...

[metallumai.livejournal.com]

oh-- I saw it $1.99 today, in StL.
amazing how the prices of things fluctuate innit-- inscrutable.

[reynard52.livejournal.com]

The Redder the area the lower the prices. *hugz* ^_^

[metallumai.livejournal.com]

Missouri's red-- St L. is extremely blue-collar BLUE. Inscrutable.

[reynard52.livejournal.com]

So gas must be even cheaper outside the city.

[metallumai.livejournal.com]

You may just be right.

I love politics.... :(

[plutherus.livejournal.com]

I liked to refer to it as "A small island of blue in a vast red intellectual wasteland."

The place has history, culture, (even the dread multiculture!), jazz clubs, opera, and sushi, and just outside are snake-handlers, sibling-spouses, and Jesus billboards...

(OK, I admit I loved the trio of billboards out Highway 40: "Discount Tires", "CHEAP cigarrettes", "JESUS!")

But damn, do I miss the weather there. Here, it's a high of 77 degrees, partially cloudy. tomorrow, 77 degrees, scattered clouds, and after that, 77 degrees with occasional clouds. My god, I've worked in buildings with more weather than this!

[31seel.livejournal.com]

So you hate approximately 51% of America

[plutherus.livejournal.com]

Nah, I just hate 51% of Americans.

[31seel.livejournal.com]

America is its people. Otherwise this would be known as "that big empty place" or some such.

[whpingboy.livejournal.com]

I thought that the polls said you hate 30% to 40% of Americans

[31seel.livejournal.com]

You should hate the fleeing rats still, especially if they are (a) just as stupid in their opposition as in their support, or (b) abdicatign responsibility.

I am reminded of a cartoon about Kerry, in a nutshell, it had two guys. The first said "Kerry was fooled into supporting the war." The second man said "I wasn't fooled & I want my president to be smarter than I."

[plutherus.livejournal.com]

I think that was Lewis Black, on the Daily Show, who said that...
Or possibly one of the correspondents...
Damn, I really can't remember now.

I did like the line, though, and paraphrased it in one of my letter to our Senators and representative.