What Is Patriotism? (McCain and Obama's very different takes, in their own words)

Parade Magazine ^ | 7/3/08 | John McCain and Barack Obama

[Wolfstar]

What Is Patriotism?

John McCain's answer: "Putting The Country First"

Barack Obama's answer: "Faith In One Another As Americans"

[Wolfstar]

McCain's article is solidly grounded in the history of our great nation. He writes with conviction and says,

"Patriotism is deeper than its symbolic expressions, than sentiments about place and kinship that move us to hold our hands over our hearts during the national anthem. It is putting the country first, before party or personal ambition, before anything."

Obama's answer is filled with empty platitudes and small thinking. He writes:

"That is the true genius of America. A faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles."

[Brilliant]

Barack Obama’s answer: “Faith In One Another As Americans”

In that case, Obama seems lacking.

[Resolute Conservative]

He is so full of sh_t.

[madameguinot]

It’s similiar to the big banner in front of our neighborhood elementary school our kids didn’t go to:

“Promote Tolerance” Tolerance of what exactly? Faith in what kind of dreams?

[Jeff Head]

Barack Hussein Obama has shown by his willful associations of long standing and his (ever shifting) positions on the issues, that he is a militant anti-American and marxist. Either of those disqualify him from ever bearing the name patriot or being "patriotic".

I will not sully or shame the name of patriotism and the counteless Americans who have sacrificed greatly, even giving their very lives to protect and defend a nation they selflessly loved and cherished, by conveying such a term on the likes of Obama.

His sordid and charlatan efforts to use Wesley Clark to attack McCain so he could equate himself to McCain and patriotism are an assault on reason and the senses and I will have nothing to do with it and will speak out plainly regarding the same to anyone who will listen.

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[hosepipe]

I wouldn't trust the Weasle John McLaims patriotism as far as I could throw Louie Anderson.. or Newman on Seinfeld..

That Pole Cat will say anything to be elected.. much like Obama or Hollary.. That ferret faced republican is as weaslly as Weassly Clark and he could be a masked Noam Chomsky.. Obama is proven to be a Cornel West masked..

[Ben Reyes]

Obamama says ‘Patriotsim...for my country that’s rooted in my earliest memories.”

You’ve got a problem there, O. Let me guess. In the mosque or out? As a student in a madrasa school?

[Born In America]

Love the bumper sticker. I just ordered two and will prominently display them in Plain City, Ohio as soon as they are received. Any chance there may soon be other items, buttons, yard signs?

[Wolfstar]

Bravo, Jeff. I wish more of our fellow conservatives understood what you do about the danger Obama poses to us all.

[pookie18]

[anoldafvet]

Visuallize World Peace!

[Wolfstar]

LOL!

[Logical me]

Who are you going to vote for. Don't tell us, just stop and think. It's crap like this that got us McCain. It's crap like this that will get us Obama.

[Teacher317]

“Faith in one another as Americans”? By his own definition, Obama is not patriotic. He does not trust me to own a firearm. He does not trust me to give enough to charitable causes. He does not trust kids to do enough good deeds on their own. He does not trust our military. He does not trust me to make decisions for myself regarding my own safety (seat belts, motorcycle helmets, dietary choices, etc). He does not trust women enough to provide a decent home to an unwanted child (and thus allows them to kill the infant).

[PghBaldy]

Obama could be talking about toilet training.

[pookie18]

Put the Coulter statement on the pic after seeing it HERE.

[Teacher317]

Continuing my list...

He does not trust the market to set prices correctly. He does not trust the profit incentive to create new forms of energy. He does not trust us to know enough about free speech, so that airwaves must be "balanced" (well, just AM radio waves). He does not trust us to get out and vote, so he pays for commercials by the millions. He does not trust us to make good sentencing decisions when on a jury, so he supports mandatory sentencing guidelines.

Please, Mr. Obama, let us know what trust you DO have in us? To "demand small miracles?" Is that all we're allowed to do in your America?

[hosepipe]

[ It's crap like this that got us McCain. It's crap like this that will get us Obama. ]

The reality is I think that Obama would/will be more conservative than totally Marxist and authoritarian.. AND McLaim would/will be more Marxist authoritarian than conservative..

The odds are that the two Supremes that Bush appointed are both Globalists like he is.. and they are just waiting to O.K. a totally globalist agenda, probably with Obama.. because Obama, Hillary, Mclaim and Bush are ALL GLOBALISTS(as are 7 of the nine Supremes).... with the same agenda..