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Steve Marmel @Marmel
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Dear GOP: Stay home July 4th. Don't wave flags, don't go to a parade, don't wear red, white & blue. You don't deserve it. #Bergdahl
3:07 PM - 8 Jun 2014
Steve Marmel @Marmel
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While @BarackObama was working to save #BoweBergdahl, the president who sent him to war was painting. Poorly.
5:15 PM - 8 Jun 2014
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/06/08/a-tweet-or-two-62/#more-174413
President Obama did not forget. He is bringing Bowe home.
The GOP, were for it before they were against it. This veteran that they sent to war has now been condemned by the GOP as a traitor and a deserter, days after they condemned Obama for no action in bringing him home.
I don't know his story, none of us do yet, however there is a deserter here and that is the GOP that has gone AWOL in support of a veteran that they sent to war.
Now he has been tried and convicted by the GOP before he even leaves the hospital, he has yet to say a word in public in his defense, yet he is guilty as charged. He is a US soldier and his family is receiving death threats. What the hell has this country become.
I for one am embarrassed and ashamed.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)sheshe2
(83,319 posts)And I thank you so much for your support of Bowe.
Just had to dump didn't you.
I don't like the direction the GOP is taking this country, however I will take the time to support Bowe.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)My family, as decedents of first nations... these lines made us puke... Really, Pilgrim's fucking pride and freedom?
My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From ev'ry mountainside
Let freedom ring!
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My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture thrills,
Like that above.
I like abolitionist A.G. Duncan's a slight bit better. A little too much god but a lot more truth.
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My country, 'tis of thee,
Stronghold of slavery, of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Where men mans rights deride,
From every mountainside thy deeds shall ring!
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My native country, thee,
Where all men are born free, if whites their skin;
I love thy hills and dales,
Thy mounts and pleasant vales;
But hate thy negro sales, as foulest sin.
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Let wailing swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees the black mans wrong;
Let every tongue awake;
Let bond and free partake;
Let rocks their silence break, the sound prolong.
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Our fathers God! to thee,
Author of Liberty, to thee we sing;
Soon may our land be bright,
With holy freedoms right,
Protect us by thy might, Great God, our King.
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It comes, the joyful day,
When tyrannys proud sway, stern as the grave,
Shall to the ground be hurld,
And freedoms flag, unfurld,
Shall wave throughout the world, Oer every slave.
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Trump of glad jubilee!
Echo oer land and sea freedom for all.
Let the glad tidings fly,
And every tribe reply,
Glory to God on high, at Slaverys fall.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)I'd prefer a song NOT grounded in imperialism, genocide, and racism.
I'm 56 years old. I don't think I've heard this song for 35+ years. I texted my daughter , 24 years old, and she has never heard it her entire life BECAUSE IT IS A HORRIBLE RACIST CRAP SONG THAT NOBODY WITH ANY KIND OF SENSE U.S. HISTORY WOULD POST PROUDLY.
Land of the Pilgims' pride, indeed. Let Freedom Ring!
Cha
(295,899 posts)hypocritical republicons.
To Bowe Bergdahl and Steve Marmel
sheshe2
(83,319 posts)And I will be on vacation to do it!
Cha
(295,899 posts)here!
sheshe2
(83,319 posts)I am off 3 days this week. My owe day for Memorial day! Getting in the grove for vaca here. The weather is going to stink for the next few days after a gorgeous weekend. Sigh. Oh well~
Cha
LOL~ Yes it is Cha!
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I feel better seeing this. Bring our people home is not a scandal. We owe them that much and more.
Cha
(295,899 posts)Fu** those who are trying to make it one.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I feel a bit ashamed about that, we can do better by our troops.
Cha
(295,899 posts)no mistake if this were a republicon president they would be all for getting Sgt Bergdahl home.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)A 50 state tour.
Cha
(295,899 posts)sheshe2
(83,319 posts)BTW love your new pick, saw it on your other thread, yet did not want to comment there. To much ugliness posted. LOL, you posted it to make people afraid or scare people? I don't think so, your hubby, he is such a cutie! A keeper bravenak.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)And i do intend to keep him! And thanks that's my favorite picture of us, he's so funny.
Cha
(295,899 posts)are adorable.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)We agree!
So good to see!
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I want everyone to see how cute they are. I am so proud of them.
Cha
(295,899 posts)your "little family", bravenak.
Let him keep thinking that. He looks way to happy in that pic.
Yet I know you both would be scary if you needed to protect you and yours. I would do the same for mine.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)He was telling me jokes while i was trying to take the selfie on my ipad. I let him think he's the scary one, but most people think it's me. I do have strong arms though, and i am always watching.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Jenoch
(7,720 posts)xeserves due process. I also know he was not 'sent' to war. He eagerly signed up for the army hoping he would be going to Afganistan.
I believe that sums it up concisely Cha.
thanks