So when watching the Olympics, do you think Liberals and the ACLU are cheering for the other countries?
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No, I'm a liberal and an ACLU member and I am rooting for Americans. Just because someone does not agree with you does not mean that person does not love his or her country.
391048
I agree with the comment about the first act on our soil is a crime.  And to wave their former countries flag about and demand ANYTHING is preposterous.  It is your former country for a reason, correct?  If it is your current country, here's your ticket.  If it is truly your former country, then for crying out loud ASSIMILATE!  I believe we were founded as a melting pot, not a storage shelf for your old icons and lifestyles.
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I love the comments about "useless" liberals.  COME ON! Do you think the current position of the US is cool? Should we keep doing what we're doing?  Uhhh. I think not. Liberals are not falsely patriotic! They are just ready to see America delineated the way the founding fathers wished it to be! Not lead by something of a facist dictator who if he choses can send thousands of our brothers, husbands and sons to die for some bogus worldy cause to save his own interests!
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I used to watch the Olympics when I was a little kid, but now I find them quite boring.  \n\nIt just doesn't interest me at all.  I suppose I would rather see the nations of the world get together to try to figure out our problems, then seeing a bunch of people ice skating.  \n\nHowever, for some people it is entertaining and it makes their lives better, and that is great.  It just doesn't do that for me.
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Actualyy i don't think they get paid THAT much, if at all... especially in comparison to their pro contracts.  They consider it an honor to represent their countries, kind of like the Olympics, I think.
84866
In my opinion the coverage for the olympics this year is a lot better than four years ago.\n\nFour years ago it was 95% figure skating and ice dancing\nFour years ago when they weren't showing figure skating they were showing weepy fluff pieces on the athletes' lives.\nFour years ago you wouldn't see an event unless an American was a medal contender.\n\nThis year they seem to be balancing out the coverage a lot better.  They're showing a wider variety of sports, and hardly any of the fluff pieces.  They're even showing sports where America isn't in contention.\n\nWhy are the ratings down?\n\nProbably because they're showing a wider variety of sports, and hardly any of the fluff pieces, and because they're showing sports where America isn't in contention.
70037
Really, no wonder people think that the world is heading in the wrong direction! The Winter Olympics are the biggest sporting festival in the world, second only to the Summer Games. How can you be so darn negative?
968402
as a member, yes. \n\nanytime they defend freedom, ANYBODY'S freedom, they speak for all of us, even the idiots who think they are a bad thing.
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What's really ironic is that the country that is hosting the 2012 olympic games hasn't got a decent athlete.\n\nI'm British by the way...
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They are because a majority of AMericans couldn't care less about the sports in the Winter Olympics.  Some will watch the figure skating and hockey fans will watch hockey, but that's about it.\n\nI personally find nothing interesting about the Winter Olympics at all.  Summer Olympics I love, but not winter.
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I love the Olympics, it is something that for me shows the best of humanity. The world comes together, representing all nations and all walks of life, and in a friendly atmosphere competes as equals. \n\nWhen I heard it was coming to London, I was over the moon (until the very next day) and I still am. The Olympics is about more than money, we are privileged that it is coming to us and that the eyes of the world will be on our capital and our culture and everything that makes me proud to be British to celebrate something that, as mentioned above, I think is the best.\n\nI wont go as far as to say sod the cost, but I think the values it has are too easily overlooked when money comes into it. When you think of how much money is pissed away on welfare fakers who cant be assed to work as just one example, I think it is a small price to pay for greatness and for being a part of something that really matters
997365
Because ACLU stands for "Anti-Christian Liberals Union"...
1056343
In Practical terms.. No its not. 'coz in olympics far more countries are involved and all the games, But in Popularity terms.. I think it is
1109686
Hell no!\n\nNo one has and that was just ONE of the discovered accounts of pure liberalism in the media.  Everyone disbelieves the left-wing controls the media but when an incident occurs, it's quickly covered up by the body count in Iraq.\n\nAll thanks to the liberals in this country, first we can't get an accurate account of the good things in Iraq then when they are caught doing something wrong and dishonest, they will quickly change the topic on air.
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You know something is wrong with this picture.  There is the Olympics and the senior Olympics but no inbetween Olympics.  I think you could actually be onto something here.  I suggest that you get a committee together and begin the process of starting up an "Olympics for Late Blommers". We are  missing our chance here, after all what about all of us late bloomers?
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"These immigrants are fighting to embrace this nation."\n\nThat is funny.  Of course, how did I miss it.  Waving a foreign flag, speaking a foreign language, demanding free services, bastardizing the National Anthem.  Sound like their trying to embrace this nation - in a war!\n\nI believe that this is going to backfire on them.  In California we need to stop electing these people who hate living in this country.  That's the only reason I can explain why they would boycott it.
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Yes I do.  I haven't seen this game yet (will see it tonight) now I'm really excited.  I love to watch games that I don't have a vested interest in - because I'm not nervous about the result.  I watched Japan/Brazil, Ghana/USA.  They're all looking quite good.\nWhat a great sport this is.\n\nI have to comment on Answers999 - what a typically boorish American attitude.  Things they don't understand, can't do, or just plain don't like - has no value to them.   No wonder they are so popular (sic) around the world.\n\nNice one Francis!