Norman: A burning desire to be a patriot

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05175/527673.stm

Sometimes I wish I could be as patriotic as the members of the House of Representatives, who voted 286 to 130 to add a flag-burning amendment to the United States Constitution. Life would be a lot simpler if my patriotism trumped my love of the Constitution.

The men and women of the House are great patriots. You can tell by their willingness to drop everything of substance to attend to the great symbolic issues of our day: flag desecration, school prayer, evolution and women in a persistent vegetative state.

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Never mind the increasingly obvious fact that the Bush administration "fixed" intelligence and facts around a policy to oust Saddam from Iraq over nonexistent WMDs at a time when the president was assuring world leaders that he had not made a decision to invade; anarchists on the home front are plotting to spit on the red, white and blue.

And why stop there? Isn't the president also a symbol of this country? Is it too far fetched to imagine a time when desecrating the image of the president will be akin to mocking the Emperor?

If only I were a patriot, I wouldn't worry so much.