How dare you question my patriotism! OK, I dare

Growing up as a redneck Southerner, there was one thing you better never do. Dare me. Then I'd have to do it or bust hell wide open. So I'll still take a dare today even though I'm way too old. Not.

The political lexicon of the day is that liberal leftwingnuts can say or do anything that's blatantly unpatriotic, such as not putting your hand over your heart during the playing of the National Anthem for instance, and then if criticized the response is: "How dare you question my patriotism!"

I dare, sir, because if I had been at that political rally back early in the presidential campaign when Hillary, Bill Richardson from New Mexico and the other Democrats all stood respectfully with hands over hearts as The Star-Spangled Banner played while Barack Hussein Obama did not, I woulda climbed on stage and cold-cocked him.

I dare, Nancy Pelosi, because the men and women of the CIA have an unblemished track record of zero terrorist attacks on American soil since 9/11 and you, ma'am, are as full of crap as a Christmas turkey when you claim the CIA lied to you about waterboarding terrorists. A grand total of three, count 'em three, rag heads got water in the face to save our country from another attack and what did you do, Nancy, but attack the people who were fighting to defend us?

You, ma'am, and you, BHO, are not only not patriots, I doubt you even know how to be one.

I dare, Harry Reid and John Murtha, to opine that you're neither any kind of patriot when you declare "the war is lost" even as it's being won on the ground in Iraq, or call our Marines murderers when they're accused by a bunch of lying terrorists who routinely kill women and children, blow up churches and schools and commit terror in the name of some other "god."

A patriot is not only someone who loves his country -- and does not go on world apology tours -- but a patriot is also someone who serves his country. Nancy Pelosi's idea of service is commandering military aircraft to ferry her and her buddies to an anti-war party in San Fran.

Harry Reid and John Murtha's idea of service is sucking on the public tit their whole lives and giving back nothing, nada, not a mumblin' minute of genuine, self-sacrificing service.

Genuine service is when a Marine, sailor, soldier or airman, lays down his or her life for our nation on a foreign battlefield so far from home it's not even on the geographic radar of the average American. Iraq? Afghanistan? Most Americans couldn't find either on a map. But our servicemen and women not only know where they are, they've been there, multiple times, and are still there right now, putting their lives on the line for BHO, Nancy, Harry and ex-Marine Murtha. (BTW, Murtha joins Lee Harvey Oswald as the only two ex-Marines in history.)

Genuine patriots not only fight for their country, they also send their sons and daughters off to war and pray for them daily and visit them on the battlefields, as the much-despised-by-the-left Sarah Palin has done and no doubt will do again. Real patriotism and real service is what the men and women in uniform of our armed services or the thin blue line of our police forces here at home do every day: put their lives on the line to fight and defend all that we hold dear.

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. That's genuine love of country, that's a real patriot. Nancy Pelosi, Jack Murtha, Harry Reid and BHO would have to stand on each other's shoulders to stack up high enough to kiss a real patriot's ass!

Show your patriotism this Memorial Day, and pray

Just because I can, "Yes, we can!" here's some bumper stickers et c. that I really like from The Patriot Depot. How better to celebrate Memorial Day that exercising our right of free speech given to us by the blood, sweat and tears of all the generations of Americans fallen in battle?

Yes folks, we have a President who thinks he can stimulate the economy by printing more "money," raising your taxes, and spending our grand children's inheritance to win the votes of illegal immigrants, dead people, and Democrats. Furthermore, he can't prove he was born in America. We know he lived in Kenya, so it's quite possible that this is his home country. Therefore, somewhere in Kenya, a village must be missing its idiot!

Of course,we're just trying to have a little fun and make the Liberals mad in the process. The really scary part is that President Obama is not an idiot. Every decision he makes is calculated to take one more liberty away and moves us one step closer to full-blown communism.

And The Patriot Depot also reports that a man in Louisiana was detained by police there while they investigated whether he was a terrorist for displaying their "Don't Tread On Me" sticker.

A customer service representative at The Patriot Depot just received a call from Rosemary in Ball, Louisiana alerting him that her brother-in-law was stopped by small town Louisiana police and detained by the roadside for half an hour. A background check was conducted to determine whether he was a member of an “extremist” group. Why? Her brother-in-law (name not disclosed for privacy) had purchased a conservative “Don’t Tread on Me” bumper sticker from The Patriot Depot and displayed it on his car.

The bumper sticker is based on the famous flag designed by American Revolution era general and statesman Christopher Gadsden. The yellow flag featured a coiled diamondback rattlesnake ready to strike, with the slogan “Don’t Tread on Me!” underneath it. Benjamin Franklin helped make the rattlesnake a symbol of Americans’ reluctance to quarrel but vigilance and resolve in defense of their rights. By 1775 when Gadsden presented his flag to the commander-in-chief of the Navy, the rattlesnake was a symbol of the colonies and of their need to unite in defense of threats to their God-given and inherited rights. The flag and the bumper sticker symbolize American patriotism, the need to defend Americans’ rights, and resistance to tyranny’s threats to American liberty. Those threats included—and include—illegal taxation, profanation of Americans’ rights, and violation of the fundamental principles of American law.

Now don't that just give you the warm fuzzies and make you want to show your patriotism on Memorial Day? It's bad enough that we got a bunch of rookies in power who can't find their behinds with both hands, but they also don't know their history. And those who are ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it. Viva la Revolution!

But seriously, take a minute today to bow your head in respect to the men and women, from our founding fathers on forward, who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom by laying down their lives for this nation, and say a prayer for the future of America.

I woke up this morning with one of the verses from "America the Beautiful" playing in my head, sung by the late great Ray Charles, a true patriot.

O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!

Obama vs. Reagan, a comparison of patriotism

Obama's Patriotism Problem, by Our Country Deserves Better

DNCC's Old Glory Whodunit: The trashman cometh

Somehow 12,000 American flags ended up in hefty bags in and around dumpsters in Denver following the Democratic convention and were left for more than a week waiting for garbage pickup until an Invesco Field worker rescued them. The Democrats admit the abandoned flags were theirs, but how dare you question their patriotism! Which is exactly what John McCain and Sarah Palin did at a rally Saturday in Colorado Springs, where they passed out the rescued flags to the estimated crowd of up to 50,000 attending.

Below is the Fox News video and here's the Fox News story on the controversy.

AP posted this photo of Dem VP Joe Biden, sitting with his wife and Michelle Obama during the DNC convention. Note the American flag lying with the water bottle at Biden's feet. Not exactly the proper disposal of Old Glory, which I learned in Boy Scouts should never touch the ground or the floor.

AP Photo.

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air reports on The Recycled Flags of the DNCC, plus Pathetic Spin by Team Obama.

Morrissey reports a Team Obama response, claiming the flags were "stolen" by the GOP:

They claim that the flags were “bundled” for return to their manufacturer. If so, it’s the first time I’ve ever heard of anyone bundling returned merchandise in Hefty bags and storing them “in and around dumpsters” while awaiting the RMA (trash pickup).

... I sincerely doubt that these flags got sold to Team Obama in Hefty bags. And let’s try to parse this story down with some common sense:

• Why would a manufacturer provide a refund on open product? They certainly couldn’t resell them, especially not after being left like this at Invesco.
• 12,000 flags must have cost at least $2,000 or so, and probably more. Once Democrats discovered the “theft”, why didn’t they report it to the police? It’s been more than a week apparently since they were “stolen”, and Team Obama just discovered it?
• Leaving material in and around dumpsters, especially in Hefty bags, makes it look like trash. That’s hardly a way to store American flags, and it’s certainly not a way to keep janitors and waste management people from taking them to landfills.

Instead of just saying that their people made a really stupid error and apologizing, though, Team Obama decided to tell a ridiculous lie to get themselves off the hook.

Gateway Pundit has a rundown of the trashing of Old Glory with several links, including this note which puts the lie to the Obama campaign's claim that the GOP "stole" the flags:

The flags were rescued by local boy scouts after the Obama gig.

UPDATE 2: Here's the proof-- A photo of flags in the trash after the DNC Convention:



Sorry, Democrats-- There's more photos of the Democratic trash here.
More photos are here, via Doctor Bulldog.

Here's another photo of the Democrat's trash:

Via The Denver Post.

And Thomas Lifson at American Thinker also has a roundup of the fiasco, and says:

Actions do speak louder than words. Democrats tossed 12,000 American flags in the garbage following their convention. This sort of thing takes the breath away. How much do you have to hate America to do such a thing? Have they never heard of the fine people of the VFW and American Legion who proudly help dispose of worn and otherwise useless flags with dignity?

Barry H. Obama: All-American

The Noo Yawk Times (AKA Obama campaign PR department) says Democrats plan a magic trick of David Copperfield proportions at their upcoming convention, transforming their “candidate with a most unusual background” into the All-American boy next door. The plan is For Convention, Obama’s Image Is All-American

Democrats face a number of imperatives at their convention, none trickier than making more voters comfortable with the prospect of putting a candidate with a most unusual background — the son of a black Kenyan father and a white Kansan mother, who grew up in Hawaii and Indonesia — and his family in the White House.

… Through four nights there will be testimonials from family members like Mr. Obama’s wife and sister who will tell his “very American story,” … there will be appearances by lesser known “Americans from all walks of life, from across the country” speaking about their support for Mr. Obama. Combined with a film featuring the candidate in all-American scenes by Davis Guggenheim — the director of “An Inconvenient Truth”… aides to Mr. Obama are using the convention to tackle what members of both parties see as his greatest vulnerability with undecided voters: his “otherness.”

If Guggenheim can sell Al Gore’s Chicken-Little, the-sky-is-falling global warming theory, maybe he can sell Barry H. Obama, All-American Boy.

The introduction of a candidate is a task facing every presidential campaign, but one that carries unique challenges for Mr. Obama because of his race and questions about his patriotism, values and faith that Republicans have already vigorously sought to raise and exploit.

So there’s the plan. The fella who wears the now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t flag lapel pin; whose values and voting record are more liberal than anybody else in Congress, including avowed Socialist Bernie Sanders; whose faith record consists of 20 years of listening to the openly racist sermons of the not-very-rev. Jeremiah Wright ranting about “whitey” and “G—D--- America!” All that goes down the memory hole, like Alice’s rabbit. Presenting the new, improved Barry H. Obama, All-American Boy! And if you’ll buy that, I’ve got some oceanfront property in Arizona…

‘McCain created his own surge’

I read a poll the other day that said 48 percent of voters admit they’re tired of reading and hearing about Obama. So am I. So let’s take a look at the other guy, you know, “the old, wrinkled white guy” as Paris Hilton described him. Kyle-Anne Shiver at American Thinker writes about Sen. John McCain with a flashback to last year when he was virtually a solitary voice in Washington, calling for a “surge” of troops in the Iraq war.

On April 19, 2007, Harry Reid, new Senate Majority Leader, had stood upon our Capitol steps and declared for all the world, especially our enemies, that this "war is lost." Congressional Democrats were acting like banshees demanding withdrawal timetables for Iraq, and pronouncing the surge a failure before it ever had a chance to succeed.

And as Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, a certain junior Senator from Chicago and a chorus of others demanded defeat for our troops, McCain looked liked a defeated presidential candidate.

In June 2007, the press were all but writing obituaries on McCain's presidential campaign. The campaign was basically broke, donors were looking elsewhere, and it was a time for reassessment.

When his political chips were down, McCain created his own surge.

…John McCain decided to leave the whole mess behind, and embarked on a no-fanfare trip to Iraq to spend the 4^th of July with our troops. As one of the most vocal initial backers for the troop surge in Iraq, McCain continued to believe that premature withdrawal would be devastating, not only to the people of Iraq and the Middle East, but to our ability to fight the war on terror around the globe.

John McCain flew to Iraq to celebrate Independence Day in the privileged company of those he has always loved best, his fellow men and women in America's Armed Forces.

In July 2007, McCain and the troops were both beginning a surge to turn events upside down, politically and militarily, despite the nay-sayers.

Then Kyle-Anne Shiver flashes even further back to 1967, the year I dropped out of college and joined the Navy. The Vietnam War was raging and young Navy pilot John McCain was shot out of the sky and ended up in the famed Hanoi Hilton, the worst POW camp in North Vietnam.

Over the course of five years in a Hanoi prison, two of those years in solitary confinement, John McCain discovered his inner strength, his maverick spirit, and his determined will to never succumb to a loss of what makes us human. Our free will.

Every time I hear John McCain speak now, I am reminded that he has faced this horror. When I see that he walks stiffly, I know it's because his leg was broken in October 1967, and he didn't wind up in an efficient, well-equipped American medical facility. He ended up in a Hanoi prison instead. He was told that if he gave them military information they might fix his leg and his arms. Instead, the "medical treatment" the communists gave him nearly killed him. His body has never properly healed.

Every voter, in my opinion, ought to read Senator McCain's First-Person Account of his captivity, published in May 1973, now available online.

When the North Vietnamese learned they had the son of the naval admiral, who was about to be given command over our entire Forces in the Pacific, they wanted John McCain to accept early release.

When McCain's father took over as CINCPAC, the communists tried to persuade John again to accept this favoritism.

McCain refused, saying he wouldn’t come home until all prisoners were released. Five years later, the POWs came out together, bloody but unbowed.

I prefer John McCain's idea of patriotism. Love of God and Country first. Before personal gain. Before personal glory. Before personal gravitas. Before politics. There are some things upon which there simply can be no compromise. For John McCain, the non-compromising item appears to be personal integrity.

McCain's Country-First life is a winner. I'm not sure we deserve him, but I sure do hope we get him for our next Commander In Chief.

Me too, Kyle-Anne, me too.