Hey, it’s true as long as you define putting the country first as lobbying against the troops getting benefits just b/c they were put in harm’s way and then not voting on the bill at all.  My friends, seriously, McCain is a former POW.  What else do you need to know?

Maybe McCain’s platform should have a plank where instead of the GI bill, returning male soldiers get to ditch there current partner and marry an heiress whose assets will be determined on a sliding scale depending on the severity of their service and the connections of their parents.

Because true patriotism is knowing that no matter what, the United States is fatally, irredemably flawed.

Not the FLAG!!!  My eyes are burning . . . BUUUURNING!

John McCain for America!
Putting him first!!!!

Actually, Pink Dink, unlike the straw-liberals you dislike, we criticize when our country does not live up to the ideals of justice, liberty, and the city-on-a-hillness we learned it should and could be when we were kids.
If we thought the flaws were fatal and irredeemable (2 e’s on that, spell check is your friend), we wouldn’t be trying to fix it. Obama has talked about fixing the problems.

Maybe you don’t know what fatal and irredeemable mean, or maybe you just didn’t apply logic to it. What can survive does not have fatal flaws—and Americans tend to hope their country will survive. What can be altered for the better is not irredeemable.
If America was a child with a broken leg, you would call us unloving for trying to put splints on the leg so the child could move and heal. You would be telling us that there was nothing wrong with the child, and our wanting to render first aid is exactly the same as wanting to perform euthanasia.

Carl Schurz put it best in 1872:

“The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, “My country, right or wrong.” In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”

And looking for the exact wording, I found another also applicable to current times from 1898:

“The man who in times of popular excitement boldly and unflinchingly resists hot-tempered clamor for an unnecessary war, and thus exposes himself to the opprobrious imputation of a lack of patriotism or of courage, to the end of saving his country from a great calamity, is, as to “loving and faithfully serving his country,” at least as good a patriot as the hero of the most daring feat of arms, and a far better one than those who, with an ostentatious pretense of superior patriotism, cry for war before it is needed, especially if then they let others do the fighting.”

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Schurz
Total dirty hippy, you should see his beard.

Yeah, I’m just not convinced that destroying a Nation’s institutions and attempting to re-make it in your own image is a course of loving the Nation - it’s narcissim and a few other things, but not Patriotism.  If you loved your wife or husband, I doubt you’d go about talking about nothing but his or her flaws.

The United States is like Cindy Crawford.  I see her exceeding beauty, you see nothing but an ugly little mole.

Pink Dinkins, which specific institutions is Obama planning to raze and reconstruct? Can you please provide sources for that claim ‘cause it sounds like nonsense to me.

Yeah, I’m just not convinced that destroying a Nation’s institutions and attempting to re-make it in your own image is a course of loving the Nation

Why does the Bush administration hate America?

“Yeah, I’m just not convinced that destroying a Nation’s institutions and attempting to re-make it in your own image is a course of loving the Nation - it’s narcissim and a few other things, but not Patriotism.  If you loved your wife or husband, I doubt you’d go about talking about nothing but his or her flaws.”

Even taken on its own nonsensical terms, this doesn’t any make sense. If people think their country’s “institutions” are wrong they shouldn’t vote/organize/attempt to change them? What, pray tell, are we voting about then?

Is it illegitimate for, say, Ron Paul to run for president on the basis of radically changing the Federal Reserve? Were people wrong for the their destruction of the American institutions of child labor, or adulterated meat? Or slavery? Did Henry Cabot Lodge and William Borah display narcissism in working to stop America’s entry into the League of Nations? Was the civil service reform that our pal Carl Schurz ran during the Hayes Adminstration a terrible thing for destroying patronage?

Well, I suppose “God DAMN America” falls upon our respective ears quite a bit differently.  That, and welcoming Jane Fonda back from her tour of duty in Southeast Asia.  But, you know, tomayto, tomaato.

Well, I suppose “God DAMN America” falls upon our respective ears quite a bit differently.  That, and welcoming Jane Fonda back from her tour of duty in Southeast Asia.  But, you know, tomayto, tomaato.

3/10

You really need to try harder at trolling.