I guess this picture is supposed to evoke some visceral reaction--nausea, uncontrolled rage, or a vote for McCain; but I wonder--what kind of a person would look at this and think of himself any less? Does it really matter that his country doesn't maintain the largest global empire or have the world's tallest skyscraper?
There's nothing wrong with living in a peaceful country that does not go around foisting its beliefs on the rest of the world--most of the world lives this way. There is something wrong with spending over a trillion dollars maintaining a global empire and allowing a bloated federal government to strangle an economy.
America is not the biggest and bestest; get over it. What we should be lamenting is that it is not the freest.
