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2008-02-07 Home Front: Culture Wars

Lileks: "Love of country must always be qualified these days"

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Posted by Mike 2008-02-07 06:41|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Instapundit points out the best of the suggested six-word slogans:

Luckily, our parents left your country.

Posted by Mike 2008-02-07 07:51|| 2008-02-07 07:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Not a motto, and more than six words...

"Men did not love Rome because she was great, Rome was great because men loved her."

Posted by moody blues 2008-02-07 08:09|| 2008-02-07 08:09|| Front Page Top

#3 people are just too fat and happy

A mere hundred years ago, only the rich in America could be fat and happy and lazy. Just google up some black and whites of the time. The 'fat cats' sitting around the dinning table in their suits, with a cigar and loads of food on the table. Then the classic images of the hard working down trodden 'working class', thin and sunburned, that hungry look. Well America applied itself to rectify that 'injustice'. So, today its the rich who are thin and sunburned and the poor who are fat, happy, and laid back. And everyone is bitchin' that this so bad. Make up your mind people :)

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-02-07 08:21|| 2008-02-07 08:21|| Front Page Top

#4 "Half love U.S., half hate U.S."

This is true both inside the US and outside of it, and it encompasses all the reasons, good and bad, on both sides.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-02-07 09:01|| 2008-02-07 09:01|| Front Page Top

#5 I love my country.

You don't like it, fuck you.

Simple enough?

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-02-07 10:07|| 2008-02-07 10:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Ditto Vader!

Posted by Besoeker 2008-02-07 11:00|| 2008-02-07 11:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Lileks has been on fire lately. It's good to see this side of him being more common - not that I dislike the quirky, funny side.

Posted by no mo uro 2008-02-07 12:39|| 2008-02-07 12:39|| Front Page Top

#8 My slogans:
1) The greatest country in world history.
2) America, love it or leave it.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2008-02-07 13:17|| 2008-02-07 13:17|| Front Page Top

#9 My six words.

"America, we love it, you don't"

Add one more "Tough"

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-02-07 15:19|| 2008-02-07 15:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Lileks is some fine goodness for sure!

Posted by newc">newc 2008-02-07 17:43|| 2008-02-07 17:43|| Front Page Top

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