I agree with you on this, however, I have never heard or read anyone question anyone's patriotism because they disagree with government actions or decisions. I've only heard/read those who claim that they were being accused of being unpatriotic. Such as "I'm tired of my patriotism being questioned," but I've never read or heard the actual attack on patriotism...

Seems an awful lot like political maneuvering to me - complaining of non-existent attacks before the attacks even occur...

Was there a general attack (not just reports of attacks in the media that don't give sources that show that it comes from a consolidated front) that I missed?




>>You may have heard that Barack Obama defended himself yesterday against charges that he is unpatriotic. He also criticized a top advisor, Wesley Clark, for disparaging John McCain's military service.
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>Did you hear what Clark actually said and in response to what he said it? He did it poorly, but the basic idea of his comment wasn't wrong. McCain's service, being shot down, and being a POW don't, a priori, qualify him to be president. That is, not everyone with the same record could or should be president. That's not to say that those things didn't help form McCain's character, nor to disparage those experiences. Just that they're not, _by themselves_, qualifications for president. They're part of a bigger picture.
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>All that said, I agree with you on how offensive it is to question someone's patriotism because he or she questions the behavior of the government. Our founding fathers would be totally baffled by this behavior (or, more likely, would put it down to politics as usual--some of those early elections were brutally nasty, even by our standards).
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>Tamar