The Blog | Davis Sweet: An America-Shaped Thing | The Huffington Post

The Blog | Davis Sweet: An America-Shaped Thing | The Huffington Post: "Without freedom, and I mean huge freedom that makes you feel so good you could write a song, you may as well throw the flag in mothballs. Under this regime, the stars and stripes is merely a logo on a knock-off version of America, like a crooked Tag-Heuer stamp on one of the ten dollar watches you can buy at Ground Zero. It's still an America-shaped thing, but the cheap version can never be something you'd feel proud leaving to your heirs.

So when you talk about America (or, if you're John Edwards, some multiple of same), remember to specify whether you're talking about the classic America, with its planet-inspiring Constitution intact, or the King Bush 'New America - Now 99 and 44/100ths percent Freedom-free!'"