[jagrmeister]

Rather than complaining about being labeled unpatriotic, liberals should evince some intellectual curiousity as to why they are earning such criticism. First, they need to jettison that adage: dissent is patriotism. That equation is simplistic and incomplete. To be patriotic is to serve the interests of your country and countrymen - one aspect (amongst many) of this is to ask questions. It does not mean making snide remarks calling into question the motives of your country to score points with international audiences. Critics have a burden of offering reasoned opinion not anti-american demagougery, especially when we are at war. In the same sense that there are Americans to whom America is never wrong, there are countless liberals to whom America is never right. These people are labeled unpatriotic, and rightly so. Further, liberals need to understand that "responsibility" is the other side of the same coin of patriotism. Liberals talk endlessly about their entitlements as citizens (ie: freedom of speech) but little about the responsibilities that go along with it. Yes, it's your right to make ill-informed, highly politicized remarks attacking our commander-in-chief during war. Such remarks are putting party over country, they are not constructive criticism. And when liberals ignore the responsibility that is tied to freedom, they warrant being called unpatriotic.

[Stultis]

To be patriotic is to serve the interests of your country and countrymen - one aspect (amongst many) of this is to ask questions. It does not mean making snide remarks calling into question the motives of your country to score points with international audiences. Critics have a burden of offering reasoned opinion not anti-american demagougery, especially when we are at war. In the same sense that there are Americans to whom America is never wrong, there are countless liberals to whom America is never right. These people are labeled unpatriotic, and rightly so.

Very well said!

[KC_Conspirator]

Rather than complaining about being labeled unpatriotic, liberals should evince some intellectual curiousity as to why they are earning such criticism.

Exactly. When liberals engage in ouright anti-American acts like openly rooting for Saddam, the Iraqi Republican Guards, and his Fedeyeen, like we read about in Slate magazine last week. Liberals have earned the right to be labelled unpatriotic and it showed last election when the American people turned them out.

What you saw the other day was the real Hillary - caught in an unguarded moment, spouting her shrill leftist politics.