Hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis, hundreds of billions in deficit, torture as an overt policy, a couple of million more poor Americans, ...

and this is what the Land of the Free cares about, it's just sick and immature.
If you could see this from outsight the bubble that is the USA, you would truely be able to appreciate how ridiculous and scary this is.

For the "most free country on the planet" (NewsWeek reported that all of West- and Northern Europe and Canada score better than the US on freedom issues), the US has a lot of litmus tests on fate, on criticism of one's country, sexuality, ...

American people have to live in a straightjacked when it comes to their patriotism, which reminds more of the Soviet Union than the American movies the world grew up on and loved.

If a politician in France or Germany would say he's ashamed of his country and explains why, this person will get elected, if people belief his explanation. Mainstream American public discourse is at a grade school level, when will the US finally grow up?

It is truely painful to see mainstream hosts every night report on non substance issues and think that's the height of public discourse in the world.

When Garry Kasparov talked to Bill Maher on Real Time, all the guests where amazed at how elevated his level of political discourse was. Wake up, that's normal in the rest of the West.

The US has more than enough smart and very smart people, the problem is that most of the time, their voices are drowned out by all the BS noice.

BTW I hope a real conversation can finally start about how elections are funded in the US, because ONLY IN AMERICA. People outside the US bubble call corporate donations to politicians what it is: corruption, and is hence illegal. How most people in America don't acknowledge this practice as corrupt and fundamentally undemocratic is a total mystery to and the rest of the democratic world.

Look: respect for Cenk & TYT, Olbermann, Bill Maher, most AAR hosts, Jon Stewart, Fareed Zakaria, Jonathan Alter and a couple of others for keeping my hope alive, a hope that America is not lost afterall. Keep putting down those "We're number 1"-glasses and see what's really going on, because you can only fix something if you see the truth and not the propaganda.