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CoffeeCat

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10. When I saw this commercial...

Tue Feb 4, 2014, 10:54 AM

Feb 2014

Last edited Tue Feb 4, 2014, 02:50 PM - Edit history (2)

I thought singing our national anthem is other languages--was a compliment to our great country. Here you have these people from other nations, who chose to come here and make their homes here--and they are singing OUR beloved national anthem in their language. It is an act of love and respect for our country!

Can you imagine going over to Denmark, putting down roots and then ultimately singing their national anthem in english? This would indicate that you LOVE that country. Also, a symbol that you have retained your own identity and American customs--and you embrace this amazing new world. And you honor and celebrate your new home by singing their national anthem.

I think it's beautiful.

I don't get how anyone can see anything but beauty in that commercial.

I just don't understand how someone can see that commercial and react with such fear and hate.

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Kansas pageant winner calls tweets over Coke ad a mistake [View all] n2doc Feb 2014 OP

Oops... I'm a racist xenophobe. nt onehandle Feb 2014 #1

"I'm sorry if you were offended, but . . ." gollygee Feb 2014 #2

Correct, it means Lex Feb 2014 #18

The OP title that she "calls tweets over Coke ad a mistake" is just bogus. FourScore Feb 2014 #21

follows by "there's no right to not be offended, or we're not the country I grew up in" MisterP Feb 2014 #34

She will have a bright career riding horses jsr Feb 2014 #3

When I see young people (I will be 62 years old this year) that are this conservative and racist and livetohike Feb 2014 #4

Mission Accomplished no_hypocrisy Feb 2014 #5

Sad commentary that these morons don't realize that French and Spanish* were spoken in America Mike Daniels Feb 2014 #6

I didn't see the ad, but I hope they included some Native Americans n2doc Feb 2014 #7

When I saw this commercial... CoffeeCat Feb 2014 #10

Talk radio has invented a nonexistent "cultural war." Dash87 Feb 2014 #12

If "America the Beautiful" is our National Anthem, what is "The Star Spangled Banner"? Bandit Feb 2014 #15

"The Star Spangled Banner" is our national anthem. Vashta Nerada Feb 2014 #17

And personally, I think no other version of the National Anthem comes close Warren DeMontague Feb 2014 #31

+1 uponit7771 Feb 2014 #23

It's not our national anthem leftynyc Feb 2014 #28

These people are useful idiots to Coke. Dash87 Feb 2014 #8

I have a local right-wing radio host... CoffeeCat Feb 2014 #9

My 16 year old daughter thought exboyfil Feb 2014 #11

She *would* be a K-State student with such a Philistine outlook.... Blue_Tires Feb 2014 #13

Rock chalk stranger81 Feb 2014 #16

People who don't live or work a lot in these parts of the country just don't realize Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #14

I feel your pain Iris Feb 2014 #22

Scary, isn't it? I was walking into a local coffee shop Saturday, when this perfectly normal looking Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #25

We have one who lives up the street... CoffeeCat Feb 2014 #24

yes it was a mistake to let everyone outside of your little sphere know what a xenophobic dumbshit.. frylock Feb 2014 #19

How was her tweet a mistake? Vashta Nerada Feb 2014 #20

Pageant winner nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #26

Proving that beauty queens really are vacuous and clueless. OregonBlue Feb 2014 #27

Miss Kansas? clarice Feb 2014 #29

Shit. I don't even want to fly OVER Kansas anymore. Aristus Feb 2014 #30

WOW,... MarianJack Feb 2014 #32

Her apology is not quoted in the OP. Chiyo-chichi Feb 2014 #33

This beauty queen is an idiot Gothmog Feb 2014 #35