Petro Stopping Center I-20 X-8 Shreveport, LA
Hi, Jenny!
It appears you were confused with my post "America ... love it or leave it ... please."
What does that mean? Let me give you an example:
Let's say I love baseball ... and my favorite team is the New York Yankees. At the end of the season, a player is selected as the "Most Valuable Player" ... and they select someone that I don't "FEEL" was the most valuable player. Does that mean that the Yankees are no longer my favorite team? Does that mean that I will no longer love baseball? NO!
I will CONTINUE to love baseball AND support my favorite team!
We live in a REPUBLIC. As Red Skelton put it, "Republic: a state in which sovereign power is invested in representatives chosen by the people to govern. And government IS the people ... and it's from the people to the leaders ... NOT from the leaders to the people."
We elect our leaders to REPRESENT us ... NOT to do whatever THEY please. And, at present, SOME of our leaders are doing pretty much what they feel like doing ... NOT because they represent their constituents.
But just because I don't like my leaders doesn't mean I don't love my country. And far too many inside AND outside our borders would rather see our country destroyed than to have it governed by officials that they don't like or that they didn't vote for.
George W. Bush - my fellow Texan - has been hated since he won the Presidency in 2000! And the Democrat Party has sworn NOT to cooperate with him. And THAT is why things are the way they are.
Back to sports: when you play a game - ANY game - isn't the main objective to WIN? Every member of the team participates so that the TEAM can win! The U.S. is a team ... and many of our team MEMBERS DO NOT want the U.S. to win ... at anything!
It was nice to read your input ... and I hope you now understand MY point of view. I didn't mean that half the American people should leave the country ... only those few who don't seem to LOVE this country. I served my country and was willing to DIE for it ... and it hurts me and saddens me when anyone speaks ill of it.
My job takes me all over the U.S. from coast to coast. And if you could see all that I have seen - large cities and small towns, tall mountains and deep valleys, lakes, rivers, streams, the countryside with its farms, fields, and cattle ... it would simply take your breath away! I sometimes come close to tears with joy. A country this beautiful and this awesome CAN NOT be an accident. God made it with his own hands ... and He gave it to us. And it is our DUTY to preserve it.
Keep up the good work!
Your Adlander Friend,
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