Looking for ammo to rebut current meme of 'patriotic to criticize the POTUS'. Remember how when W..

[CurtEastPoint]

was pres and he was criticized, we were called anti-American.

I got this today:

Teddy Roosevelt said “Patriotism means to stand by the country; it does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country.”

Does anyone have any specific GOP quotes from those (thank God) past days when the same shit was thrown at us?

Thanks in advance.

[theoldman]

1. It was intelligent words like this that made him a great president.

[Wickerman]

2. Can't think of specifics, but I know the archives of DU

should be brimming with them. As someone said the other day, after all the links on the intertubes are broken and the pipes to the MSM are welded shut DU, with it's snapshot of the most poignant political phrases of the day, remains the archive of of recent history.

[unpossibles]

3. no, but you could probably find it via google

One thing I tell them is that I am fine with the right/teabaggers protesting. I support their freedom and ability to stand up and protest for whatever they believe in, regardless of if I agree with them or not. What I don't like, and will fight back against with my own free speech, is when they resort to falsehoods, whether through laziness of not checking what they hear against a reputable source, or willful ignorance.

In other words, they are free to make whatever point they wish, and even to be racist, xenophobic assholes while doing so. But I am free to point out the lies and hypocrisies.

I don't want to shame them into not protesting if they feel like they have a cause. I want them to respect my freedom to protest too, which (sadly) I'm sure they will forget when the time comes.

[awoke_in_2003]

8. you don't have to shame them

they do just fine with their semi-literate signs (unless they are truly against Pubic Options :rofl: )

[unpossibles]

10. true

they seem to have such fragile egos for being such tough-guy-types.

I said something about how MSNBC is not really liberal despite a couple of their pundits" on a friends page, and some guy (friend of a friend) today made an allusion to me and MSNBC being Che supporters, then when I explained how GE is actually a pretty conservative company and that channel is also largely conservative despite Maddow and Olbermann I got in a joking dig about how I support his right to be wrong. Well, he got his pants in a wad and cried about how I was essentially being a typical elitist humorless windbag meanie using facts and all that against him.

Jeez, Louise. They have such amazing persecution complexes - no wonder they're so paranoid about the health care new world order.... :D

[abluelady]

4. Check this Out

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4471563

[Forkboy]

5. Words to live by.

[Arkana]

6. Dig up anything from Dicko the Sicko or Bill O'Reilly.

[CurtEastPoint]

7. It just came to me. Dixie Chicks. THEY got shit on because they...

criticized the WRONG president. This is good.
thanks

[awoke_in_2003]

9. But weren't they

in another country at the time? That changes everything :crazy:

[Phx_Dem]

15. Here's a video complilation of just a few choice comments about the Dixie Chicks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kan8ZPBPqo

Bill O'Reilly said they should be "slapped around."

Their documentary "Shut up and Sing" has lots more examples. Here's a trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3CTBrGL5rA

[Grand Taurean]

11. Recall the Dixie Chicks?

[SwampG8r]

12. Teddy R is my personal favorite president

he was one hell of a guy

[TankLV]

13. It's OK to criticize any including this President. It is NOT OK to LIE

or be hypocritical about it while doing so...

[LaydeeBug]

14. I was just thinking of this...like when they said,"Yanno, at a time of WAR, it is demoralizing to

our troops to criticize the POTUS". Cripes, that was the meme everywhere.

[Orsino]

16. Patriotism usually *requires* criticizing the president.

But there's nothing inherently patriotic about criticism.

[jacksonian]

17. just criticizing the POTUS isn't patriotic

it's criticizing him WELL that is good for the country. There's no escaping you have to do the right thing.