How many column inches has been devoted to whether Obama is patriotic enough, if a war record is on or off limits, and what the love of country truly means. Is anyone in government today truly patriotic?
Katrina vanden Heuvel | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
I experienced a surge of hope after the most nationally inclusive race for president in US history. It was that hope that moved me to write a manifesto about how to invigorate our democracy.
Byron Williams | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics
Patriotism has been reduced to wearing flag lapel pins and adorning bumper stickers that read: "I Support the Troops." Where is the courage that exemplifies the spirit of 1776?
Huffington Post | Sean Morrow | Posted 07.11.2008 | Entertainment
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Michael Russnow | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
Whatever you think about the war in Iraq or how we got there, suggesting that those who are in opposition are less than patriotic is irrational and undemocratic.
Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
Jonah Goldberg continues to demonstrate how the right-wing is manipulating public discourse in order to confuse and conflate patriotism with rabid nationalism.
Taii K. Austin | Posted 07.09.2008 | Entertainment
The kind of patriotism the Olympics brings out in us can be a healthy commercial break in the general mundanity of the average American lifestyle.
Bob Franken | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
Can we just stipulate that each of the candidates devoutly loves this country, since there's no way to disprove otherwise? Slimy rumormongering just won't cut it.
Ari Melber | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
Republicans have been twisting Wes Clark's mundane observation that McCain's experience "getting shot down" in a fighter plane is not a "qualification to be president."
Gary Hart | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
Here's a modest proposal: all of us who support Barack Obama for president should now wear flag pins. This will signal that we are all just as patriotic as anyone on the right.
Paul Peete | Posted 06.21.2008 | Home
This is going to be a white-hot, bitterly contested election cycle, and even though the McCain campaign has forsworn dirty tactics, the 527s and right wing blogs and rumor mills will rush to attack Michelle Obama. But a word of caution is warranted: "Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."
Harold Pollack | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
Whatever Kristol means, he is fighting a culture war that ended many years ago. There is no ideological or partisan divide when it comes to caring about Americans in harm's way.
Harold Pollack | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
Jason Fry, 24, of West Virginia prefers "a full-blooded American" like John McCain to Barack Obama, but Fry does not understand the animating spirit of our diverse democracy.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.11.2008 | Politics
Very few things fail to impress me more than sad arguments over a Presidential candidate's level of "patriotism." I am sufficiently convinced that al...
Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics