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15:35 - If you say so
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/349tpijp.asp?pg=1
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Matt Labash of The Weekly Standard:
"Pursue your happiness. We were the first country to do it. And we live for that, the fact that people have personal rights. Go where you want. Do what you want. The fact that I chose Canada is almost a bigger embodiment of the American dream. . . . I still love America."
"So you're saying being unpatriotic is an act of patriotism?" I counter, though my heart is no longer in it.
"I've had too many cocktails for that one," Wright says.
It stops looking like Canada-bashing after the first few paragraphs, I promise. After that it becomes good.
Seriously, for any who care: if I ever come across as being derisive or dismissive of Canada, that's almost certainly not my intent. There are things about the country's politics and social impulses that I don't agree with, and that I find interesting as illustrative measures in understanding how our own government works—a rather important thing, one would think, as we watch a whole part of the world on the brink of inventing new governments of its own after the models it sees in us and other modern democracies. But that doesn't mean I don't find the place fascinating, the people friendly (America-bashing aside), and the country itself a place I'm looking forward to visiting again this summer. Just because I'll be glad to get back home—unlike those profiled in this article—doesn't mean I never wanted to come in the first place.
Via Paul Denton.
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Brian Tiemann
