Tortured? As strange as it may sound, he's being honest. He and others of his ilk are not traitors or unpatriotic -- to their America. Thus they are not "grasping, shallow, and shortsighted beyond belief" either.
Their America needs the defeat of our America on all fronts.
Within a fews days of 9/11 I heard radio talk show callers identifying themselves as liberals say that they are not showing and will never show the Flag. "The Flag is a symbol of the Republican Party that's why," said the callers.
Rat Party (formerly the traditional, old-time patriotic Democratic Party) Senator Feinstein is embarrassed to show the Flag of this America on foreign trips. Specifically the lapel version of the Flag.
Senator Barrack Hussein Obama's patriotism is for an America that can be. That is true patriotism, you see.
Popular on the left Robert Jensen author and employee of the journalism department of a major university kinda of nails something "Instead of claiming, 'America is the greatest nation on Earth,' we might say, 'I live in the United States and have deep emotional ties to its people, land and ideals, and I want to highlight the many positive things while working to change what is wrong.'"
In the 1960s it was "America, fix it or forget it" and that bumper sticker has grown to where it is now the raison d'être of all who want a U.S. defeat in Iraq, the demise (literally?) of the current Administration, conservative talk show hosts.. you name it.
I sincerely hope that soon! it is generally acknowledged that we are in some kind of civil war over whose America will survive. The Left declared war more than 40 years ago.
Here's another example for my post above.
In the book, Unlimited Access, the author (retired FBI) Gary Aldrich recalled that loyalty investigation interviews often brought assurances by Clinton White House employees that indeed they were most loyal, no problem! and they will always be loyal to President and Mrs. Clinton.
Say what? It'd be Monty Python-class comedy if it wasn't war.