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<title>Blogcritics: Comments on Early morning July 5 musings (Happy Birthday, America!)</title>
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<title>Comment by Mark Edward Manning</title>
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<description>JR and Jeff:  Since I don&#039;t consider your ilk to be true Americans anyway, why should I feel chagrined at taking pot shots at you? That&#039;s the most patriotic thing I can think of to write on the 4th of July, letting no-one forget how hateful of the nation your kind are. And JR, when all you do is criticize endlessly, that can be interpreted as hate. And I sure as hell didn&#039;t notice any Independence Day entries from either of you. Did you forget how much you supposedly love your country to pay tribute to it?</description>
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<title>Comment by Jeff</title>
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<description>Glad to see it was a freedom loving conservative who used our nation&#039;s birthday to take cheap political pot shots at his enemies.  You are so patriotic. I was waiting for one of my totalitarian liberal pinko friends to do it.  But I guess Joseph Stalin just tought us to have a little more class.</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 5 Jul 2004 10:42:23 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by JR</title>
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<description>&lt;i&gt;Which, of course, leads me to the fact that we have to live with the specter of people who genuinely hate us, domestic and foreign. People who deride everything the U.S. does, accuses&lt;/i&gt;(sic)&lt;i&gt; its people of being unworldly simpletons, and will gleefully await the day the nation falls into ruins like ancient Rome.&lt;/i&gt;

I reckon one characteristic of a simpleton would be the inability to distinguish criticism from hate.
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