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  1. Boobie the Rocket Dog

    July 3rd, 2012

    As if this bunch needed reminding, THANK YOU VERY MUCH for posting that clip.

    I have it on my country iPod along with 382 other American songs representing the value that this country is, was and WILL BE AGAIN.

    NOBAMA 2012

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  2. Stirrin the B.S.

    July 3rd, 2012

    Indeed! God bless America.

    NOBAMA2012

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  3. Boobie the Rocket Dog

    July 3rd, 2012

    The original 1918 Irving Berlin lyrics contained the line,
    “Stand beside her and guide her/ To the right with a light from above.”

    I actually prefer that and sing it whenever I get the chance.

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  4. Unneutral

    July 3rd, 2012

    Yep, good times for sure.
    GOD bless America…..unfortunately, Rev. Wright has a different take on that.

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  5. Stranded in Sonoma

    July 3rd, 2012

    This clip is from the movie This is the Army starring Ronald Reagan! I tivoed it from TCM a while ago. My youngest son likes the movie a lot!

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  6. Maudie N Mandeville

    July 3rd, 2012

    then along came Cher and George Clooney.

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  7. the aardvark

    July 3rd, 2012

    In my younger days I thought Kate Smith and this song was hopelessly square. Boy, was I wrong and the song and Kate Smith’s singing of it has grown on me the older I get.

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  8. reliapundit

    July 3rd, 2012

    ACCORDING TO THE STORY I HEARD KATE TELL:

    THE SONG WAS THROWN OUT OF THAT EARLIER IRVING BERLIN SHOW.

    AND DECADES LATER, KATE CALLED UP IRVING AND ASKED HIM IF HE HAD A GOOD PATRIOTIC SONG FOR HER SHOW; SHE FELT THE NATION NEEDED IT.

    IRVING SAID HE MIGHT, OPENED HIS TRUNK, RIFLED THROUGH A FEW HUNDRED OLD ONES THAT HAD GONE NO WHERE, AND PULLED OUT “GOD BLESS AMERICA”.

    AMAZING.

    AMAZING TO THINK IT HAD LAIN IN THAT TRUNK FOR DECADES – UNKNOWN, UNSUNG.

    GOD BLESS AMERICA.

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  9. puyalluppete

    July 3rd, 2012

    She remains one of my favorites and it always brings a tear to my eye to hear her do justice to that song. Thank you so much. Better days are around the corner and happy 4th to all, be safe.

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  10. DavVA

    July 3rd, 2012

    May GOD continue to Bless America!

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  11. CrustyB

    July 3rd, 2012

    I remember that country.

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  12. jclady

    July 3rd, 2012

    @reliapundit — really don’t think there were “decades” involved between Kate Smith and Irving Berlin.

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  13. jclady

    July 3rd, 2012

    Now my comment related to the song:

    My dad enlisted in the Marines during WWII, giving up all his dreams, knowing that he would be drafted into the Army but wanted to be better.

    Hollywood supported our country and it’s war efforts. Clarke Gable, Ronald Reagan, Carole Lombard, Glenn Miller, etc., all were willing to give their all for the sake of America.

    Today? Nobody in Hollywood is willing to support our American Exceptionalism — Pitt, Clooney, Moore, etc. are more concerened with their bottom line than they are with the condition of our country.

    Piss on the Hollywood of today.

    Major Kudos to the Hollywood of yesterday.

    Give me Kate Smith and “God Bless America” over any crap dished out today from Hollywood.

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  14. Stirrin the B.S.

    July 3rd, 2012

    @jclady – right on!!!

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  15. jclady

    July 3rd, 2012

    @Stirrin the B.S. — thank you.

    :)

    Happy Fourth of July to all who truly understand and appreciate the exceptionalism and greatness of the USA!!

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  16. Tennessee Vol

    July 3rd, 2012

    Thanks for the video, Big Fur!

    USA!!! USA!!! USA!!!

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  17. acerpalmatumdissectum

    July 3rd, 2012

    yes, thank for posting BFH.

    Um, any Flyers fans here? Remember Kate singing at the Spectrum back in the BSB days. Good times, good times.

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  18. norman einstein

    July 3rd, 2012

    @acer, yes I remember those days very well.

    I always thought it was so cool. I mean, Kate wasn’t somebody you’d associate with sports, let alone hockey. And vice versa.
    Damn. Those were the good old days.

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  19. AvgDude

    July 3rd, 2012

    Kate Smith had a lesser known hit but no less intense from her perspective called “God Bless Hot Dogs.”

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  20. Unslung Hero

    July 3rd, 2012

    I don’t think obama has ever heard that song and isn’t an American at all.

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  21. Moe Tom

    July 3rd, 2012

    Thanks BFH,JcladyStirrin, Norman, all of you. Happy Independence Day, July 4th. Doc sent out a beautiful card today. Great video.

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  22. MN Patriot

    July 3rd, 2012

    Every one should fly their flags upside down tomorrow and all the way to November.
    H/T Ann Barnhardt

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  23. berlet98

    July 4th, 2012

    Happy Birthday, America!

    There have been few times in America’s history more profoundly momentous and more potentially hazardous than the election of 2012 when we choose the man who will lead our great country into 2017.

    Actually, that choice is relatively simple.

    Do we as a nation decide on November 6th to re-elect Barack Hussein Obama and suffer through four more years of a left wing extremist who has proven himself to be a dangerously incompetent head of state devoid of leadership abilities and love for the United States and our values, a president who has undermined America’s national security and national pride and confidence?

    Or do we put aside petty misgivings and differences and elect Governor Mitt Romney, a man who has proven he can lead, who has shown he is much better qualified to guide us out of Obama’s economic cesspool and international quagmires and, perhaps most importantly, believes in his country and our future.

    For now, though, we should put politics aside and celebrate America’s birthday! . .

    (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=26278.)

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