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I dont think Bush is necessarily dumb..I just truly think the media likes to pick on him cause he's Southern. Which Azza, bein Southern is a "culture" of the US. We aint like Northerners.
Bush does have morals tho..we caint blame the President but so much fer the way things are here.
He is just but 1 man vs. millions of people. It's the decline of a "person" as a whole, imho, that ruins this nation.
Another thing is our media. My hubby and me were talkin the other night bout the state of this ole werld. Bout how every night you hear of babies raped, killed ,people tortured, so forth & so on. It was makin me just plum distraught..and my hubby brought up a point. He says, that 20 yrs ago people still did that kinda thing, but you never heared tell bout it. The news wouldnt report such blasphemous things. That there is good argument. Was it really that way or was people generally morally better 20 yrs ago? I think the latter, he says its cause on counta the news aint report such things.
But, fer arguements sake, let's say he's right. It dern sure aint hurt me none not knowin, and I truly think it made me better fer it. How do you say?? Because it was considered the god-awfulest thing..like gay marriages. It just aint allowed, no way, no how. Period.
Now that all that has the spotlight, you got gay marriages and you got the morals of the US goin straight to hell in a handbasket. "cause if everybody else is doin it, we should be able to do it..it's a free country, right?"

However, I caint say that we have to run a country based on a "belief or moral". That is impossible and would take away the Constitional rghts that good ole Thomas Jefferson gave us. But then again, I dont think gay marriages was on his mind at the time either.
We are called the melting pot..we got Japenese, Russian, European, Mexican, African, Asian...all kinds of people over here. All w/ their own cultures.
Where in God's name is OUR culture???
Is the hard-headed Southerner the only form of American culture there is left? (My version of culture meanin: a group of people who commonly have the same beliefs, morals ..so forth & so on)

Maybe I shouldnt be sayin anythin..all this is comin from a girl who was raised up in the late 70's/early 80's..but was livin in the 1800's so to speak. We still strung baccer up to smoke by hand, still said grace, and was brought up by a strict Southern parents.
I aint very open-minded at all..lol
I know 1 dern thing...my kids'll still be raised sayin yessir & yes ma'am, we'll still be playin blugrass much to the dismay of 90% of the general population, and we'll still think grits is best served w/ buttermilk.