By the way: I'm American. American, American, American. True, the Guardian is British. But I am American. Is that so hard to figure out?
You might think that some reader/commenter offended by something I wrote would think, "Who is this jerk?" And that asking that question, a question so easily answerable these days, would lead them to their nearest search engine, where, in about five seconds, they would find that by Googling my name the first thing that comes up is my Wikipedia entry, the first sentence of which is: "Michael Tomasky is a liberal American columnist, journalist and author." Accurate in every particular.
So disagree with me all you want; they're both free countries. But all who make comments about my bad teeth and evil foreign socialistic ways are really just showing how lazy and stupid you are. So you see, I don't sneer at people like Sarah Palin from a snobby foreigner's perspective. I abhor everything about her as a red-blooded and patriotic American. She wouldn't know the actual meaning of the phrase, the actual responsibilities of genuine patriotism, in a million years.
