Patriotism

[fedupinBushcountry]

patriotism

n : love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it

What has George W. Bush done to the meaning of that word in the past 5 years?

Well, I can tell you what he has done to that word in my husband's mind. My husband and I had a conversation last night after watching the Kerry speech. My husband who served in the military for 20 years, turned to me and said, "you know I have always been patriotic, but Bush has taken that word and used it and destroyed the true meaning of it."

Then he said, "you know I truly do want to leave this country, but one man and some good Dems, keep us here, they are the true meaning of patriotism, and they care about my patriotism." <:cry:>

I brought this up because I just had to delete some files on this old computer that got handed down to me after mine crashed from my husband. I went into the wallpaper files, and I just had to cry, these were wallpapers back as far as '98. My husband had one flag after another, of course pictures of battleships (Navy man), and loads of tributes to 9/11, including that eagle with the tear dripping from it's eye.

That speech yesterday touched my husband, from the young soldier to Mrs. Droz Keyes, yes Mrs. Keyes he does know how it feels to be called unpatriotic and it is a slap in the face especially to those who served. Then came Senator Kerry and my husband choked up.

I am just so sad right now, sad for our country, sad for my husband , sad for the truest of patriots like Senator Kerry, Max Cleland, etc., and all of us true patriots in this supposedly the greatest nation in the world.

George Bush GO TO HELL, you wouldn't know what patriotism was if it hit you in your smirk snarky ass face.

<:rant:>

[madmom]

1. past 5 years hell, how about his whole pathetic life?

[Horse with no Name]

2. Bush corrupts everything good and makes it evil

Spreading Democracy means we are going to bomb your country, kill your people, and steal your resources.
Patriotism means "you are either with us or against us"

Right now, I think of our country in terms of a drunk uncle. You love him, but you hate what he inflicts on the people around him.

Many thanks to your husband.:patriot:

[BOSSHOG]

3. A great bumper sticker I saw last Friday

BLIND ALLEGIANCE
TO FAILED LEADERSHIP
IS NOT PATRIOTISM

You are right. There is nothing patriotic about george bush or his supporters. They are constitution hating, ignorant scum. Please pass on a hardy, fair winds and following seas to your husband, my shipmate. We may not have served together but we did the time. I love you both.

[fedupinBushcountry]

6. My husband

was in Vietnam when Kerry spoke in the Senate. He then came back for a couple of months we were in Hawaii, and left again in Sept.'71. The destroyer he was on got hit and 5 sailors died 9 days before Christmas that year.

He served under Dems and Republicans and never felt as demoralized as he does now.

How dare them question the patriotism of so many ?

:patriot:

[beachmom]

4. I still remember how united we all were after 9/11

And how * pissed it all away -- not just with the rest of the world but within the country. Now if you say you're against the Iraq War, people will call you unpatriotic or a defeatist. I can bearly look my neighbor in the eye, as she is as far right as it comes, and I notice that since my Kerry/Edwards sticker went back on my car after Hurricane Katrina how she avoids me like the plague.

Tell your husband that there are now more of us (against the war) than them (still for the endless killing and dying). Kerry's speech was a signal that these dark days will soon come to an end, and even now, that we have friends in power who will fight for our most cherished ideals.

[annabanana]

9. It's she who should be avoiding YOUR gaze.

It is up to HER to defend the indefensable.

[blm]

5. The fascists have been buying control of the broadcast media for decades

to better manipulate every aspect of Americans' lives, and the word patriotism was coopted along with religion and the flag to cover for their fascist agenda of complete corporate control.

You and your husband are two HUMAN BEINGS of great emotion and compassion and that is why you you are so touched by Kerry's words - you are not going to give in to BushInc because your souls won't let you.

Thanks for being in the trenches. Like Kerry said - America is bigger than they are.

[MH1]

7. Excellent post. nt

[jedicord]

8. Christianity

n the religion derived from Jesus Christ, based on the Bible as sacred scripture, and professed by Eastern, Roman Catholic, and Protestant bodies.

He's doing the same thing to Christianity, IMO.

And, I've said this before, The Star Spangled Banner doesn't make me cry for the same reasons any more. "Bombs bursting in air gave proof in the night that our flag was still there" just ain't the same.

SOB! :mad:

[fedupinBushcountry]

11. Yes he is

and it is shameful.

[Ohio Joe]

10. What an excellent post - K&R (nt)

[OneBlueSky]

12. "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundral" . . . Samuel Johnson . .n/t

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[blm]

13. Why hasn't the US media ever done an analysis that relates the two?

It seems like it would be SO obvious.

[MH1]

14. ..

:dem:

* next to John Kerry is such a stark contrast: failure and idiocy, vs competence and heroism. And we know who the TRUE patriot is of the two.