The Motto of the United States

Freakonomics has voted on a new motto for the United States using only six words. I like the result:

Our Worst Critics Prefer to Stay

This sums up my feelings on the country right now. This is why I do not like the title of Obama's book (The Audacity of Hope) and the statement by his wife (her husband's success being the first time in her adult life she has been proud of America). We live in a country where we can disagree. We live in a country that has unprecedented freedom even when compared to itself historically. We live in a country where a black woman can get an Ivy League education in law, marry a tremendously popular politician, and still say that she has never been proud of her country. It's great to be American and there's no better proof of that than the success of it's most vocal critics.