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pipoman

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14. Or maybe

Reply to libtodeath (Reply #10)

Sat Mar 10, 2012, 09:13 AM

Mar 2012

denial or refusal to actually look at the histories of virtually every other nation on the planet with the same glasses we look at our own nation. Just for starters study up on the British empire sometime..no imperialism there...noooo

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Ok... time for a dumb question. [View all] Lost-in-FL Mar 2012 OP

My country right or wrong? deutsey Mar 2012 #1

No one ever gives the complete quote that it comes from hobbit709 Mar 2012 #11

"May"? That's too ambiguous for today's all-or-nothing rightwinger. n/t deutsey Mar 2012 #23

It's a dig at Obama Politicalboi Mar 2012 #2

And his "apologies" are a dig at bush sadbear Mar 2012 #6

the right wingers paint both the President and the First Lady as being apologists.. oldhippydude Mar 2012 #3

The Right feels Obama apologizes too much DearAbby Mar 2012 #4

"Ask Osama Bin Laden" -Barack Obama Jamaal510 Mar 2012 #7

lol yah DearAbby Mar 2012 #9

Ditto. It's a criticism of Pres. Obama, the so-called apologizer. nt Honeycombe8 Mar 2012 #20

War on an innocent sovereign nation, Iraq + International hedge funds with toxic derivatives in them patrice Mar 2012 #5

I may not agree with the Iraq war pipoman Mar 2012 #12

They had nothing to do with 9/11. & You could never describe U.S. as innocent either. nt patrice Mar 2012 #19

Thanks for the replies. Lost-in-FL Mar 2012 #8

Maybe in some instances and cultures pipoman Mar 2012 #13

All part of their american exceptionalism libtodeath Mar 2012 #10

Or maybe pipoman Mar 2012 #14

And a few older Brits, who still remember the glory nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #15

Never thought of it that way libtodeath Mar 2012 #18

It's not a dumb question nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #16

Used by nationalists when they know there is some question treestar Mar 2012 #17

It could be a Dixie Chicks reference. It doesn't make sense either way. HopeHoops Mar 2012 #21

Not a dumb question. mick063 Mar 2012 #22

It's a catch phrase for dichotomous thinking dipshits Major Nikon Mar 2012 #24