Posted by Jeannie Choe | 4 Feb 2008
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It's not that I'm unpatriotic. But the need to repeatedly thrust our whole catalogue of national iconography in the face of every customs officer we meet strikes me as kind of gauche. Isn't the gold eagle on the blue leatherette jacket enough of a symbol?And, if not, could I please just have: "Puppies! Puppies! Puppies?"
Travel & Leisure editor Karrie Jacobs sounds off upon receiving a new passport bursting at the seams with proud-to-be-an-American imagery and quotes, missing only the scenting of McDonald's french fries to top it all off.
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greg- it's a fake. google "new u.s. passport"
garish to put it mildly. hopefully deep 6'd by 2016 or I may have to go Canadian.
Freedom Fries, baby, Freedom Fries...
The only thing that's missing is a sound chip blaring America the Beautiful everytime it is opened.