GOD BLESS AMERICA, Has common sense prevailed?
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It's a GREAT day brother!! Yes common sense has finally prevailed, it will take a while to clean up the mess that BUSHCO has perpetrated on our great country, I'm just waiting for the investigations against Duhbya's criminal activities to begin.\n\nhttp://www.brainshrub.com/blogmedia/bush-jail_bars-war_criminal.jpg
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That is the general opinion all over the world at the moment, but the truth of the matter is that Americans are no less educated than any one else in any other country.  I pinpoint the blame on the examples you pointed out as mere cases of general human stupidity.  And unfortunately for most, the stupid people are often the most vocal.  I think it's safe to say that Americans are no less intelligent that any other country's population, as idiocy is a general characteristic of humanity that is non-specific to any group of people.  America's stupids are just more vocal, and Americans are a huge news topic at the moment, so there is this sudden wave of "Look at America".  This causes people to look at what idiots in our country are doing and forget that they have morons in their country as well.  Education in America is fine.  People are just dumb.
860855
Too many think everything is OK now,like hooray "we" won.Politics isn't football!\nToo many Democrats are just puppets for the same interest groups as Bush and his hoodlums.The military industrial complex isn''t gone,the neofascist patriot act isn't gone.\nTaking the house and senate form the far right should be the beginning,not the end of liberating America.\nEvery American should keep the pressure on their congress and senate.They work for you.\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09l8iqpme
912768
I agree!!\n\nIf you have noticed, our country has really started going through a lot of challenges, since God has been taken out of our everyday lives, such as school prayer. Prayer at sporting events. Taking God out of the Pledge of Allegiance etc.  etc.  etc.
248791
God Bless America....
441446
more are just "common" than with sense
784668
Yes. Good point.\n\nThis country needed this breath of fresh air badly.\nThank goodness Americans saw through the scare tatics of the far right!
534733
America has turned out the way they FEARED it would.\n\nI predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.\n\nI tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.\n\nOur country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.\n\nQuotes by Thomas Jefferson
508195
yes, GOD BLESS AMERICA! for we are that great & important that we can cause civil unrest in nations we're not even at war with!\nwe do this because we can, we are THE BEST NATION ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH! there for, we can make trouble for everyone else, because we can, because our great constitution gives us the right to express ourselves as we please!
1070675
Can't argue with history. You lived it. And it is n old fashion common sense we lost and we miss it. You can see that in the results. Thank-You.
896555
Yes. What a country! God bless the US and A!
1022784
No, No and No.  Right now, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and James Dobson are crowing in delight over the rift  the right has caused. They practically come out and say Bush's election was their victory.\n  Bush was advised very carefully on this sticky wicket and, again, as with gay marriage and immigration pulled off a diversionary tactic to divide us and take attention off the greater issues.  God guides him, so he says. We know he uses God.  And the sooner the Christian Right wakes up, the better
1084314
yes there are several ppl who answer with their head that's on their shoulders. sorry you have to wade through all the other junk to find a decent answer, but then isn't that what makes america what it is today lol. \n\nhave a good day.
1007741
Well im from the old school. When a man was supose to open a door for a lady. When kids spoke when spoken to and waited their turn to speak when adults were talking. When you said mame and sir to your elders and respected them. When the man paid for the date. And he walked on the side nearest the street so as to protect the lady from passing motorists etc.. When women stayed home and raised their children. When guns were used to protect the home and hunt food. When the flag was something to be proud of not burn. Pot was something you cooked in. Kids got a whoopin' instead of a time out when they endangered their lives or someone elses. When the "n" word was the name of a seed and not the color of a man. When your vote meant something. When women were women and men were men and gay meant you were happy! When horse was something you rode to town and not something you shoot up. When if you got fat by bending your elbow too much and you wanted to lose it, you just stopped bending it too much not ran out and had surgery to cut your stomach in half. \n\nI dont go for quick fixes or easy answers as you can probably tell. lol\nAnd I could go on for hours about all the things this county has given up on like Honor, Manners, Respect etc. Its a sad state of affairs. \n\nJust about the only people who still do thse things that Ive met are in the military or clergy. The average joe and jane dont do the right thing anymore. If they do its very rare! It started about the time they took prayer out of school. Along with the 10 commandments! God help us!\n\nBut Im still proud to be an American where at least I know my grandkids may have the chance to be free to be whatever they chose. But mabe by the grace of God and a little discipline they will have some of what this country has lost. \n\nGod,Respect for others & Self worth!\n\nVisit me @:\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheChristainCafe/\n\n:)...........Helives!
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In a way, yes. It is the wisdom of your experiences. If someone doesn't act in their own best interest, or if they don't understand the simplest wisdom, we say they don't have "common sense". Another way of putting it is "They just don't know stuff that normal people should know." The more that you communicate with your local community, the more common wisdom you will have and spread around. As we get more isolated behind books and computers, we lose a lot of our 'common' sense of things that even "common people" would know.
795155
Not yet, but they will! Well done, America!
1120061
Yes. We may not think so but the U.S. government isn't full of ignorant fools. There are good reasons that we are there.