The God Bless America Test

Like Nike’s “Just Do It” or any other ubiquitous catchphrase, the words eventually lose their meaning. God bless America has become the Pennsylvania Avenue equivalent to consumerized Madison Avenue staples.

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Anonymous:

G-D, Eponymous Source-One, aka "IT" (G-D) is being "ITSELF" (G-D by any name).

"For "I" Do The Thing and YE ("i") shall have POWER, if "I" Not do the Thing , Then "I" & "i" will hath ZERO-POWER!

By: http://{j}{o}{s}{e}{v}{z}@Us:

spiderman2:

If “God bless America” has no meaning thru overuse, then let's change that into "God is Great".

You people never cease to be stupid, do you?

Noodlehead:

Religion sucks. America sucks. You can all go rot in H double hocky sticks. Just give me your money and I'm outta here. Screw you.

Oh yeah. God Bless America!

Natalia:

Interesting. I think I'll check out the book. It seems to me that the first of these tests--the faith test--is the most pernicious because it's the one clearly prohibited in the U.S. Constitution: no religous test for public office.

Jason:

Nice piece. These tests are driven by journalists' strange need to play "gotcha" with the candidates.

karen:

You missed one and it meant something:

9/11 Congress Sings God Bless America

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZ3aNWaEw4

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