Every time America refuses to heed the foolish suggestions of the supposedly more enlightened international elites, my patriotism goes up a notch.

Despite the fact that I always thought this was the greatest country on Earth, I was nonetheless skeptical of the whole "American exceptionalism" theory. Not anymore.

My optimistic hopes for the next four years: Iraq becomes a reasonably functional democracy and Bush and the Congress impose broad market-based and "ownership society" domestic reforms.

If those things happen, and the US moves even farther away from the EU/UN model of governance, then I'll really be a true believer.

Michael Moore caused Kerry to lose like flies cause garbage.

The US has made awful mistakes in its short history- slavery, the virtual eradication of the original Native cultures- but we learn from our history.

Unlike the Europeans, for whom it's only been about- what? Less than ten years since the latest round of concentration camps sprouted up again in Europe? Did the Europeans, in their moral superiority, enlightenment and sophistication, put an end to these atrocities themselves?

I don' theenk so Lucy. They needed the help of backward rednecks from the US.

Damn creeping American Hegemony!
Talk to the hand, Europe.

And Frank Villon: We would respect the opinion of the losing side .... why? But by all means, keep cheering for him - see what happens, again!!!

Philip: Please pull your head out of your ass with a resounding pop, you dimwit. I'm not cheering for Michael Moore or Kerry. If you had read any of my previous comments here, you would know that, instead of mouthing off at me when you don't know what the hell you're babbling.

All I said is that Michael Moore did not cause Kerry's loss. That's a fact. Michael Moore is nothing but an overbloated sack of shit, a lying, traitorous bastard. But that's not what caused Kerry to lose. You see, the Demented-crat Party, much like garbage, attracts spreaders of filth, much like flies. But the damned flies (i.e. Moore) did not cause the garbage (i.e Kerry and his supporters) that was already there.

Geez! After comments from people like Phil, I wonder if Ace ever feels like he's talking to 2 year olds with Down's Syndrome suffering from syphilitic insanity!

P.S. The comment above is mine.

Frank Villon

Kevin Spacey was great in that movie.

I get so tired of this nonsensical theme that "America is a young country." The name 'United States of America' has appeared on maps for a shorter time than those of other western nations but in terms of a sustained form of government that has never suffered a coup, been overthrown by a foreign invader, or undergone radical changes as it shifted from a monarchy to an increasingly democratic society, there is no Western nation older than the USA.

In the time since this nation was founded France has been a monarchy, a vicious self-destructive attempt at a democracy, which in turn led to its becoming an empire, being conquered by Germany, and becoming a soc1alist democracy that has toyed with communism ever since.

In the last century Germany, Spain, and Italy all played host to Fascist regimes. Various other parts of Europe turned commie and gave it up when it stop being fashionable on the runways of Moscow.

Is there a single other Western nation that can unbroken continuity of government since the USA began?

note to self: don't fark with FV

Nice call with the Swimming with Sharks reference.

Funny-yet-unsatisfying. Like a Zagnut.

Kevin Spacey = good. Frank Whaley = bad.

Whaley should've stuck with Career Opportunities 2.

Cheers,
Dave

The Bush is a Moron meme has been abandoned in favor of the new improved V 2.0: The American People are Morons.
You don't get degrees from Yale and Harvard being a moron or re-elcted for that matter (unless you are a liberal Senator). Apparently you DO get to write for the Mirror, though.

I suspect the shallow gene pool in Europe has resulted in the overall lowering of IQs there. Old EUrope's mass delusion perhaps can best be explained in terms of genetic defects born of too much inbreeding.

After all, their royalty had a disturbing habit of being very inbred and we all know how the citizenry there loved to ape the aristocracy.

If anything, Old EUrope is more "red-neck, sister-marrying" than the most back-woods county in West Virginia.