On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > that's irrelevant. it's bad form at a minimum. furthermore, because > the president claims to be a super-educated smart guy, people will > assume that rather than speaking from ignorance he is doing it on > purpose. bill clinton would have never made such a foolish mistake. >
On this matter we completely disagree. If your country fucked up, you should own up to it. "American exceptionalism" is bullshit. We are as good as our actions. A lot of times, our actions are very worthy and I think that a good deal of the time, our country does a good job trying to be a force for good on this planet and that should be commended and celebrated. There have been a number of times, however, when the opposite is true and it is just plain wrong to try and ignore it and pretend that everything is peachy keen because we're America. I hope that the next President has the guts to speak out and apologize for Obama's continued, unworthy, actions such as extraordinary rendition and keeping people illegally at black sites like Bagram and Diego Garcia (and who the hell knows where else). Just because we're America doesn't make things we do right. And if we want to live up to the image we try and project to the rest of the world, we have to be honest, forthright and fess up when we fuck up. Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:321588 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
