Originally Posted by ptownrob

Of course (those of us who are American) we love America first. What are we going to require McCarthyite loyalty oaths now? Or did you set up this question for some astro-turf "gotcha."

I don't see your flag pin! Where's your flag pin?! You must be a muslim-commie!

Why doesn't Barack Hussein Obama wear a flag (American) pin or salute the flag? Why does he not release his college records? Does Hussein Obama sympathize with the recent terrorist bombers the way he sympathizes with his friend Bill Ayers, himself a terrorist bomber? Inquiring minds want to know.

By the way, Joe McCarthy is a true American hero, unlike the Anointed One who thinks we have 57 states.

Originally Posted by billethkid

for any specific reason?
Have been a globe trotter my working life I have an excellent basis for vigorously stating, there is no place like the good old USA for me and my family.

I am very hawkish about the protection of it's core values and what it's founders intended.

btk

There was no reason. It could have been either.

Yoda

Originally Posted by ptownrob

Of course (those of us who are American) we love America first. What are we going to require McCarthyite loyalty oaths now? Or did you set up this question for some astro-turf "gotcha."

I don't see your flag pin! Where's your flag pin?! You must be a muslim-commie!

I think this thread has shown that although some may think that America is no longer number one, it is way ahead of whoever is in number 2.

Yoda

Here's surprise for you, Yoda. I'm rather fiercely loyal about my citizenship. You may not believe it, but words cannot express how I felt when my passport finally came in the mail after 20 years of trying.

I think I know what you're trying to demonstrate with this thread, given some of what's happened in another thread.

Make what you will of it, but there are several reasons that I'm here and stay here and it's not because of immigrant work policies of other countries - though I grant you that I entertained working in Canada (meaning I searched job listings up there) when I was out of work for a year and a half back in 2004.

I still don't think there is something that can be called "Number One" since the definition is, by it's very nature, subjective so different people will judge it differently.

That being said, I was born here, I'll most likely die here (since I don't travel more than a fraction of my time) and I'll will continue to vote in every election, attend as many town meetings as I can and keep hoping my voice, as well as others, are heard.