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Originally Posted by sck5
Hey, we should all be proud of ourselves. black people used to be slaves. now it is proven to everyone that anyone can be president. that is a good thing and even if you already knew that, lots of people didnt but do now. it also proves to lots of foreigners that our national self image isnt a bunch of propaganda - we actually ARE a democracy. and that is a good thing for us and for them.
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I gotta think that you're better educated than the above post shows. It's hardly proven that "anyone" can be President, assuming we'd want just anyone for President. Under your premise, I'd be living a prosperous retirement now as the former center of the Boston Celtics.
If anyone doesn't know that most of what they accomplish in America depends on their gumption and the quality of the rearing they receive from their parents, I'm not sure that the election of a black man as President is going to be particularly illuminating for them.
Our national self image is intact unless you're part of the blame America first crowd. Foreigners, to the extent their opinion matters, see one over-riding thing in America; freedom. All of their other criticisms become minor when considered against freedom.
We're not a democracy. We're a republic. We elect our representatives to our government democratically for the most part. Ancient Greece was a democracy. Rome was a republic. We're a republic.
Some of this may be good for us; we'll see. Try not to assume what is good for foreigners. They may have their own peculiar notions of what's good for them, irrespective of the over-arching notions of world order held by the liberal intelligentsia within these United States.