That Obama lapel flag thing
May 27, 2008 at 10:45 am by Eric SniderThe whole Obama’s-not-a-patriot/Obama-secretly-hates-America trope that his detractors try to work really tightens my jaws. The fact that it does work makes it worse. I ran across this an op-ed piece in the St. Pete Times this morning by Diane Roberts that contained a paragraph that really summed up my exasperation over the matter:
Oh, for God’s sake, people. Do we seriously think any presidential candidate hates America? Even Ralph Nader? People run for president out of some arcane cocktail of ego, sense of mission, lust for power, and desire to improve the nation. The money’s so-so, the humiliations … manifold, and while flying on Air Force One sounds cool, the threat of assassination balances it out. So let’s just agree right here, right now, that all the candidates for president care deeply for their country.
