What is a "passive-aggressive" attitude?
The term passive-aggressive is used to describe someone who exhibits manipulative behavior within their personality. On the surface, the traits may appear as stubbornness or a polite unwillingness to agree with a situation. The end result is that the person is manipulating you to turn to their way of thinking.
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The term passive-aggressive is thought to have originated during World War II. Soldiers were found to be shirking their duties, but in ways that were not openly disobedient. The army used the term passive-aggressive in a bulletin sent to soldiers regarding this behavior. Many soldiers saw this behavior as a simple response in order to keep from being killed during the war.
Also, I find it interesting that nobody suddenly jumped at me about it when I used the term, here:
I got a kick out of responding to his posts using his own passive aggressive style.
or here
Marvin, in his completely vain attempts at offending us using his passive-aggressive methods, has clearly provided case and point for the last quote he posted.
These were quite some time ago, surely somebody could have set up a straw man argument in those threads against me. Why the existence of a term suddenl depends on the person using it is quite beyond my comprehension.
i did not think you would come back with an answer to the statement you made above
Actually, to be frank, I had a nice long post drafted out. But I changed my mind, and moved on to more productive tasks, like my typical Canadian hobby of eating moosemeat and killing seals, while my British grandmother drinks tea and has bad teeth and my Australian cousin molests kangaroos, and always says "g'day mate". In any case my point was, that you were being passive aggressive, since you were doing everything BUT saying anything bad outright about the U.S,(that way you don't have to actually defend your position, you just say "I never said that!") and instead speaking through implications. Posting the debt clock, for example, was an implication that their government manages money badly. Well here's a
news flash that's what governments do. And you never see things in the news like "government managing money well" or "municipal funds in excellent hands" anywhere, for any government. Because A, that doesn't make news, and B, Nobody wants to hear
good things about the government that they send their taxes too, EXCEPT when that government is compared to some other countries government, and then suddenly they are on a pedestal. This typical manifests itself with a "well it's not as bad as in..." and then naming another country. typically of course the U.S, for what reason I am unsure, especially since I have a sneaking suspicion that any number of Nigerian officials are mismanaging government funds, because I've had quite a few offer me millions of it in exchange for only a few thousand in fees. Clearly there is something sneaky going on over there.
Is it like saying "Of course there are plenty of thin, intelligent, good-looking Americans"?
Except that there are.
BTW i never mentioned politics 
hmm, let's see, government debt clocks? implicit stabs at the U.S? Sounds pretty political to me.
I find it rather disturbing that people on the entire other side of an ocean can form such strong and explicitly negative feelings about a country that they seldom know except through their own country's media. It's curious that these people would generally never subscribe to forming opinions based on third-hand information, and yet at the same time that's exactly what happens.
Even if one was to visit the U.S, for example, you still wouldn't have an accurate barometer with which to measure the country as a whole, so how it's so easy to measure every american with the same yardstick from 4 thousand or so miles away boggles the mind. I know quite a number of americans personally, and since I live relatively close to the border (although across a strait, which serves a tourism buffer, I suppose) I see quite a few to the point where I need to exchange bills between US and CDN currency. Aside from the fact that they have the standard "touristy" look to them (which is not exceptional compared to similar tourists that I've seen from other locations, such as Germany and Finland) they merely seemed like Human beings to me. They weren't fat, stupid, or "bad-looking" (I was unaware of this particular stereotype)
Perhaps I should have expected something different?
All someone needs to do now is mention Religion and we can have a PARTY! 
Possum Passover.
Now we party.
