I think you're right. You can't really be a good person if you don't show concern for the people who brought into this world and gave you your values. Someone who doesn't honor their parents doesn't strike me as a good person. That makes me want to reassess my view about that little family values show they put on at the end. It would then be as phony, contrived and hollowed as everything else about them. What really turned me off was Ted Kennedy ripping into our troops' mission in Iraq as a "mistake." He didn't have a few good words to say about them and their sacrifices on behalf our country. He had to tear them down and rip our country! This is what the English poet T.S Elliot referred to in the past century as "hollow men." They are pretentious people who look good outside but are dead inside. The Democratic Party is dead inside. I just don't know what to think anymore. Everything is calculated and fake with these people. They have no soul!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus