My fellow Americans, ask not if we can honor America, but ask if we can be

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soupkitchen

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Tue Apr-05-05 02:46 PM
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My fellow Americans, ask not if we can honor America, but ask if we can be

an honorable America.

Just heard the seventh inning stretch call from Yankee stadium to "honor" America by singing God Bless Amrica and thought, "This is not about Patriotism, this is a call to wallow in self-satisfied jingoism."

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