On 8/26/2008 9:27:15 PM, Jon Louis Mann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Because if you assign 3 points for gold, 2 for silver and 1 point for > bronze, then the crybaby yanks lost to china, and that is unacceptable to > the American chauvinist, patriotic, jingoist, dogmatic, nationalistic > media. Americans can not accept that they are on their way down, and no > longer first in everything.
You have a weird perspective. It isn't that America is moving down, it is that so many are moving up into our realm. And yes there are many who see this and react with paranoid insecurity, but they do not make up anything like a majority. Most people really don't care all that much, evidenced by the lack of violent protest over the items in your next paragraph. Most people are proud we did well, enjoyed the games while they lasted, and will remember only some highlights a few years down the road. You shouldn't pay so much attention to the loudmouths, they are not representative. >They whine because they > can't prove the Chinese gymnists lied about their age. Who cares what age > they are; that is an arbitrary rule that >should be eliminated. I bow > down to the Chinese volleyball girls, and all the other champions that > dominated this >Olympics. If it wasn't > for Phelps (aided by American society's peculiar syndrome of ADHD) America > would have done even more >poorly. > Jon > xponent Phelps Was Awesome Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
