Posted on 06/30/2008 5:39:14 AM PDT by raybbr
To some ears, his name sounds foreign. His father was not an American citizen. Many of his relatives live overseas. And a portion of his own childhood was spent abroad.
Every presidential candidate tries to demonstrate patriotism, sometimes in ostentatious ways, from headlining July 4th parades to leading crowds in the Pledge of Allegiance. But Barack Obama's complex biography seems to heighten the burden.
While his multiracial, multicontinent background has provided a compelling narrative for his political rise, it also makes him a more complicated character and potentially more vulnerable to attack. There is also the not-so-small matter that Obama is running against John McCain, a war hero who spent more than 20 years in the Navy, roughly a quarter of that time in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp.
All this helps explain why Obama is expected to ratchet up the telling of his own American story this week as Independence Day approaches, embarking on an effort that, in a sense, is an attempt to redefine the very idea of patriotism.
The message will be that love of country is not defined only by such traditional measures as serving in the military or tracing one's ancestors to the Mayflower. Patriotism, he and his supporters will say, can be reflected in living the national dream, which in Obama's case means rising as the Hawaiian-born son of a Kenyan father and Kansan mother to professional and political prominence.
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Obamanation patriotism doesn’t use the blue and white ... just the red
Big Barry speaks to the workers, peasants, and toiling masses.
“Oh, Brother.”
That about sums it up! July, August, September, October...four more months of this BS. *Rolleyes*
I don't care if he changes the wrold. I am worried about him changing the world - for worse. :)
The whole point is that all of his change will be bad.
LOL. It was my way of pointing it out. Keep up the good wrok.
As a matter of fact, Senator Obama, I AM QUESTIONING YOUR PATRIOTISM!
When you sit at the feet of a “minister” who damns America for 20 years, I question your patriotism.
When you establish and nurture relations ships with people like Bill Ayers, domestic terrorist, who is on recored as saying “Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon”, I question your patriotism.
When you stand with politicians and prevent this nation from securing its own sources of energy, and thus become energy-independent, I question your patriotism.
When you publicly declare “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction” and say nothing about standing with our armed forces who are sacrificing themselves to defend our way of life, I question your patriotism.
Go ahead...you, Senator, or anyone else on this planet...refute this if you can:
Barack Hussein Obama is not a patriot.
We don’t need to redefine patriotism. Only Obama needs to redefine patriotism. I’ll pass.
“Big Barry speaks to the workers, peasants, and toiling masses.”
He needs the workers, peasants, and toiling masses to pay taxes to support the drones, ne’er-do-wells, and government handout seekers.
Bambi’s definition of “patriotism” is the same as the left’s definition:
denegrating your country, its values, and its traditions.
Meanwhile:
Patriot: one who loves his or her country and supports its authority and interests
“authority” - the RIGHT to impose its will
“interests” - the interests of OUR country and culture
The Obama AND the media think we are so damn stupid....
I Hate America, this is the new patriotism. I love it enough to say I hate it and want to “change” it. I think Ann Coulter said “Treason, the new patriotism”.
It’s like being in a relationship where your spouse is 98% wonderful and all you can do is harp on the 2% you don’t like day and night, how long do you think that relationship would last?
The democrats are wearing their wife beater t-shirts and beating the crap out of lady liberty every day. I wonder how long she’ll stay?
I’ve posted links to your audacity of truth page, it’s a good resource, are you getting a lot of action on it?
Yes, tens of thousands of hits over the last few weeks.
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