<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/529d0dc9-0a73-44df-99de-0b6573880a85/55B19DF1-EE0D-4EA8-BD2C-893F95AE598E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/02/a-case-for-civi.html" href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/02/a-case-for-civi.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.usatoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/02/a-case-for-civi.html"><P>Upon first impression, you'd think it was another patriotic country song and video: A man in a cowboy hat sits on the stairs of the Jefferson Memorial, singing earnestly about hard times. Guitars twang in the background. The refrain swells with lyrics about liberty and the Bible. But the scenes shift, and suddenly there's an Asian-American woman playing a cello in front of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. Then: an all-black gospel choir belting out the song with New York's skyline for a backdrop, and then a man in a Muslim robe with Mount Rushmore just behind him and a woman in the prayer shawl of a Jewish cantor right beside him. Together they sing, "<A href="http://www.bornagainamerican.org/ ">I'm a born-again American</A>." </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/02/a-case-for-civi.html">It's Garth Brooks-meets-<EM>We Are the World</EM>, and it's not the product of Nashville, but straight out of Hollywood and the imagination of <A href="http://normanlear.com/backstory.html">Norman Lear</A>. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/02/a-case-for-civi.html">liberal/progressive Americans are not enemies of the state, but patriotic Americans with a love of country and a commitment to American ideals. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/55B19DF1-EE0D-4EA8-BD2C-893F95AE598E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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