On 8/26/2008 11:42:10 PM, Olin Elliott ([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.  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
>
> I was going to respond to this in detail, but decided not to.  I just 
> wonder, if William has posted something with the same tone about a 
> religious group, how many people would be all over him right now.  The 
> irony is, that I probably agree with some of what you're
> saying, but as an American I find the tone offensive.

Jon is vying to be the "Liberals Hate America" posterboy.
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