Being a "Patriot" is more than just wearing a tri corner hat and covering yourself in the flag.

[TheBigotBasher]

With the new big fad on the right being hatred of Muslims, it's a good time to revisit a 2008 video on the subject. On an appearance on Meet the Press, Colin Powell not only shoots down the argument that Obama's a Muslim, but asks us to consider why we think it would matter if he were.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYELqbZAQ4M&feature=player_embedded

Partial transcript, courtesy of Alan Colmes:

Powell: a Christian; has always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, “What if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?” The answer’s “No, that’s not America.” Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be President?

… one picture at the tail end of this photo essay was of a mother in Arlington Cemetery. And she had her head on the headstone of her son’s grave… He was twenty years old. And then at the very top of the headstone… it had a crescent and a star of the Islamic faith. And his name was Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan. And he was an American. He was born in New Jersey, he was fourteen years old at the time of 9/11 and he waited until he could go serve his country and he gave his life.

The photo:




So all you people freaked out about the Growing Muslim Menace, take those damned flags off your cars and quit referring to yourselves as "patriots." Patriots don't hate other Americans. There are a lot of better words you could apply to yourselves -- coward, demagogue, bigot, fool -- but the best is "anti-American." You are the anti-patriots. I know it's fun to dress up and play founding father, but wearing a tri-corner hat and waving a flag doesn't make you a patriot. Being a patriot makes you a patriot.

And sorry folks, you just don't measure up
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[RandomThoughts]

1. You make a comment.

"you don't measure up"

Do you realize that is comparing worth based on what a persons own attributes are?

Without a point about that article, that is part of the problem.

People think they can decide what other people should be, or what makes them acceptable.

Something else decides that, and when people use their own measuring against those ideas, who do they think they are? and what do they do?

[TheBigotBasher]

2. That's not my comment.

It's not my blog, I linked back to the original article. My comment is the title although I fully support the post.

All Republicans do is wrap themselves up in the American flag and claim that they are better than everyone else, from every Nation and every political viewpoint. That is not patriotism. It is at best stupidity.

[RandomThoughts]

4. I should have said, you quote a comment.

I agree that patriotism can be used to keep people from thinking.

Everyone should spend time on what words mean to them, when you get a feeling from a word, examine it, why does it make you feel that way.

Including both good and bad thoughts attached to labels.

[provis99]

5. but isn't that exactly what DU is all about? Judging Republicans to be bad?

deciding what they should be, and how they should think? Should we just abandon DU then?

[david13]

3. I get your point. And I quite agree with it. But I am not willing to

characterize all Republicans in that bag, and exculpate all Democrats, or anybody else, for that matter.
dc

[stray cat]

6. Or complaining on du....