Well, it’s like this. When you compliment three Republican Senators for planning to vote for your debt bill, and you make that compliment using the term “patriotic,” it then follows that you are implying that the people who aren’t voting for said bill are unpatriotic. From that, it follows that the people who don’t support the bill are unpatriotic, too. There are roughly 300 million people in this country: CBS News told us that 39% of them (and rising) don’t support the Democrats’ debt bill. That works out to 119 million people who aren’t patriotic enough for the President of the United States.
Note that I’m being nice in my choice of polls, here. Rasmussen says that Obama’s unpatriotic list would be somewhere around 129 million; Gallup has it at 51 million outright traitors, and 111 million of doubtful loyalties. And that’s just this week; how many traitors will there be the next?
Moe Lane
PS: No, of course the usual suspects of the Online Left won’t object to Obama doing what they claimed Bush did. They shut up and took it for FISA, the war in Iraq, and rendition, didn’t they? If they won’t blink at the administration’s casual embrace of exporting torture, they certainly won’t blink at this.
It’s Patriotic to dissent!!
“We may hope that our leaders and our government stand up for our ideals, and there are many times in our history when that’s occurred. But when our laws, our leaders or our government are out of alignment with our ideals, then the dissent of ordinary Americans may prove to be one of the truest expression of patriotism.” -Barack Obama
*cough*
Dear Mr. President,
I’ll weigh my love of country against yours any day of the week. And I’ll even do it blindfolded to give you a fighting chance.