More symptoms of insanity on the American right

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In yesterday's American Thinker, a man with the Italian name of Bonelli wrote the following, extremely offensive statement:

The United States is different from most other countries in many ways. One unique aspect of our country is that our elected officials, officers of the court, and the military, all pledge their allegiance to the Constitution and not to an office, individual or party. This assures continuity of the ideals set forth by the founders.

As an Italian citizen, I have personally sworn to defend the Constitution of my country when I served in the Italian army. The presumption involved in this ignorant display of insular arrogance is an insult to every constitutional government in the world.

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Re: The cultural exception argument

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That was an exaggeration. But you said that for every story about an American having to beg for his life you hear about one European dying because kidney operations were not available - that is, the kind of stories that American conservative media keep hammering on in order to try to convince their readers that the European systems are objectively worse than yours. Which is a crock. In every field from infant mortality to expenditure per head, Europe leads the US by a considerable margin. We are healthier and live longer. End of story.

Re: The cultural exception argument

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I beg you not to use me as a proxy for an extreme viewpoint that, as I have already argued, is not representative of even those who oppose Obama's healthcare plan (and I point marielapin's response below about some of the arguments against the proposed legislation).

One thing I do not understand

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sanscouronne wrote this in reply to something I said, which seems to have been deleted (though I still have it in my e-mail account) and left this statement wandering off alone. As I am the only person who could have deleted my statements, and as I certainly did not delete it, I have absolutely no idea how this happened. Gremlins?