President know-it-all freak

love him or hate him, it's safe to say that george bush's presidency will not be forgotten any time soon.

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Anytime you want.

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So was I. Any of us are free to leave whenever we want.

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"Any of us are free to leave whenever we want."

I know we in this here land are conditioned to believe that we can go anywhere we want and live anywhere we want because we want to and Americans wanting things is what makes this world go round. But alas, it is not necessarily true. You can't just plop yourself down somewhere and announce you live there now. (I know this is the colonial mentality and all, but guess what, many countries really don't want us. Can you believe it? Imagine! How dare they! Don't they know who we are?)

I apologize in advance for this post reading almost PBEntian, but the coffee hasn't kicked in.

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Tahiti looks nice...

Well, Rath, I was responding to what you wrote. And what you wrote is a very common and misinformed sentiment. I didn't point out that's it's just a short slide from Archie Bunker's "America: Love it or Leave it" sentiment, just that it wasn't correct.

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*laughs*. Um...I'd love to just go to France or Italy. Just live. I think it'd be fun.

*has watched "Under the Tuscan Sun" way too many times.*

"You can't just plop yourself down somewhere and announce you live there now."

Actually, you almost can. It really doesn't take that much to do it. Over my lifetime, so far, I've lived in London, Salzburg, Rome and Sydney. All with relative ease. Not such a big deal.

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