Obama: 

“Throughout my life, I have always taken my deep and abiding love for this country as a given,” Obama said in the 29-minute address to about 1,150 people crowded into a gymnasium at the Truman Memorial Building, named for former president Harry S. Truman.

“It was how I was raised. It was what propelled me into public service. It is why I am running for president. And yet at times over the last 16 months, my patriotism has been challenged — at times as a result of my own carelessness, more often as a result of the desire by some to score political points and raise fears about who I am and what I stand for.”

Another day, another Democrat whining that his patriotism has been called into question. Who and where are the phantoms making such accusations? Why is it that only Democrat politicians seem to hear them? My heavens, could this just be a straw man the Dems like to build and smash?

Well, Protein Wisdom had enough and wrote this:

“Surely we can agree that no party or political philosophy has a monopoly on patriotism.”

Surely, I can disagree.

Surely, I can state categorically that any political philosophy that has as its core value some variation of “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs” is antithetical to American values and, therefore, unpatriotic.

Surely, I can state categorically that any political philosophy makes the “world’s” feelings a priority over American interests or sovereignty is antithetical to American values or survival and, therefore, unpatriotic.

Because dissent, especially from O! Enlightenment, is patriotic.

Surely.

Last year, when MoveOn.org ran a full-page ad in the New York Times (at a discount) headlined “General Betray Us” Obama refused to vote to condemn the slur on a patriotic military man.

Furthermore, Obama was perfectly willing to use debatable issues about the military to cast aspersions on Republican patriotism, saying.

A party that presided over a war in which our troops did not get the body armor they needed, or were sending troops over who were untrained because of poor planning, or are not fulfilling the veterans’ benefits that these troops need when they come home, or are undermining our Constitution with warrantless wiretaps that are unnecessary?

That is a debate I am very happy to have. We’ll see what the American people think is the true definition of patriotism.

Oh, the warrantless wiretaps? Obama now supports them.