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Kathleen Reardon

Kathleen Reardon

Posted: November 20, 2005 07:22 AM

You Might be a Patriot If...


You don’t live in or travel to San Francisco

You don’t criticize the President or his policies

You blog only on the right sites, or, preferably, you don’t blog

No one has ever accused you of being a “liberal”

The Vice President’s condoning of torture didn’t make you shudder

You consider the attempted humiliation of John Murtha, a Viet Nam veteran with two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star, a show of White House backbone

You haven’t looked up the definition of the word


Exploiting the term "patriotism" like this has become the prevaricating pastime of paper plane patriots, sandbox generals and bathtub admirals – growing in number by the day -- bursting their counterfeit brass buttons at our expense.


 
 



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