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øGuru,
While I enjoy your spark and believe your heart is in the right place, you've rather offended me. I don't mean that in the "you-said-something-about-me-that-offended-me" sort of way, but more in the "what-you-said-is-generally-offensive" sort of way. The bit I highlighted in pink is the wording of concern here. It is exactly the mindless sheeple "patriotic" anti-logic that was strewn down on us by throngs of bush-loving "conservatives" during his first term.
Being the über-liberal that I am, I don't subscribe to that old adage about turnabout being fair play. The reason I didn't like the anti-logic back then wasn't because it wasn't me that got to proclaim such things; it was because I rather think it is the duty of the people to question things they don't believe in - i.e. it is "patriotic" to do so. Telling people they're anti-american if they question the president's authority is stiffling to the very thing that makes america great: freedom of speech.
Please don't get me wrong. I vehemently dislike all of the Obama bashing I'm seeing here lately. It just isn't unpatriotic. It isn't un-american. It's a bunch of sore-looser, tired-ass bellyaching, is all.
Ok, allow me to recant and restate it then. They're not patriotic. =)