Real Patriotism

There's been a lot of good stuff about the nutty comments coming from the right regarding "real America," pro-American parts of the country (read: small towns), and how much we liberals (read: big city) hate the country.

But if you haven't you should check out Jack Farrell's latest over at Thomas Jefferson Street.

He notes that his father--a New Yorker--was a soldier stationed near Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and served proudly through the war.

He is not here to do it, so allow me to refute the suggestion made by the McCain campaign and its surrogates that the Farrells, and Americans like us, are "anti-American" or not from the "real America" or "Communists" because we don't come from the mythical small town of Palinville, where good Christian families, who do the work and fight our country's wars, vote only for white Republicans.

Read the whole thing here, it's good stuff.

Comments

[halloweenjack7]

It's just another tactic in the GOP bag of tricks.

The politics of exclusion. Us and them. They would have us believe one of this nations foundational tenets wasn't tolerance, religious or otherwise. They would have us believe uniformity of thought is what our founding fathers had in mind when drawing up the Constitution, and that separation of church and state stuff was just rhetoric, nullified by " In God We Trust" printed on our currency.

And they would have us believe the term "Our Creator" refers only to a Christian god. And that a Muslim would, if elected president destroy our country. But they would only have us believe these things because they are simply tactics to spook the ignoramuses in the electorate, pandering to their narcissism, their egos, their belief that their's is the only way.

A cynical, ruthless Machiavellian lot. And the barracuda in lipstick who's been throwing around the socialist slurs needs to be informed that if per chance she ever dupes the public with her winking and egg salad soccer mom pep talks into getting McCain in, the "unpatriotic" areas of America ( half the country ) will not secede.