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Yet another lefty academic explaining to other lefties why the Democrat's (and by extension Obama's) patriotism problem isn't their responsibiliy.

First you focus on the mendacious Republicans. It's all their fault! We're victims! Next you stroke yourself for being, oh, too "high minded," too "subtle" for the rest of us mouth breathers to "appreciate" and "grasp."

Um, shove it.

Democrats are saddled with a patriotism problem that has dogged them for nearly 40 years. It keeps them from winning elections they might otherwise win. Sure, Republicans have ruthlessly and sometimes dishonestly exploited this weakness. But the weakness itself is REAL and was not created by the right.

Patriotism wasn't forcibly taken by the right - it was left lying on the table by the left when they discovered that patriotism wasn't always the best of things and tried to redefine it in their own terms.

Stop focusing on what the Republicans said. Stop floating your thinly veiled contempt for citizens with a different point of view. Ask yourself this: How Do I Fix This?

Dems, It's YOUR problem. Why is it your problem? Because you want power and you need votes. Most people don't think patriotism means what you think it means. Eight years of republican douchebaggery and dems STILL might lose this election because of a patriotism issue.

If you want to win, then get thyself to the patriotic gym! I don't know, try a low-Che' diet, maybe send a DVD player to some Lance Corporal in Iraq and ask him why winning is important. Learn to bass fish and actually spend a couple weeks in Alabama trying to understand what people love so much about this country. Whatever works - anything - just stop blaming everyone else for your problem.

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No, it's not the Democrat's problem. The Republicans are selling candy. The Democrats are selling medicine. Over the last 40 years America has developed diabetes and yet still shows a pronounced preference for sugar over insulin.

As a result, the dollar is collapsing, the nation is drowning in debt, the manufacturing base is evaporating, the cost of oil is skyrocketing and the nation is starting to show the terminal symptom of an addiction to militarism. Now, who has the real problem here, the Democrats or the nation?

What I don't understand is that people don't grasp the point that it is NOT that Obama doesn't wear a flag pin. The point is WHY Obama doesn't wear the flag pin.

If he said he didn't want to poke a hole in his new suit I would have been fine with that.

But he said that other countries see our flag as a "symbol of oppression" and he doesn't want to be "taking sides".

What don't people get about this? If he doesn't want to take sides then don't run for the presidency because that would be your job, stuipid, to take our side.

If he is not on our side would somebody kindly explain to me who the heck's side he is on??????

@ Lulubelle22:

"But he said that other countries see our flag as a "symbol of oppression" and he doesn't want to be "taking sides"."

Barack Obama never said this. <link> <link>

This is a perfect example of the lies and disinformation that are being circulated on the internet about Obama. The next time you quote Obama, please give a credible source.