Independence Day approaches and it is clear that, especially in an election year, all politicians must profess to be patriotic. Some are, and some are not. The thing about patriotism is that it is either in you or it isn’t. Patriots who have it, can spot it in others. Patriots live, breathe, and exude patriotism because it is part of their fiber. It becomes part of your fiber when you are taught, beginning as a child, that the root of America’s greatness is our freedom. You learn that America has freed millions of people from the grip of tyranny and oppression over our long and storied history. You learn that American freedom still serves as a beacon of hope for billions of people around the world. And while some people may not be proud of our country, Patriots are proud.
Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the U.S.A. (Proud to be an American) as sung by 5, 6, and 7 year olds at an elementary school in Virginia. They sing a patriotic song every day, right after the Pledge of Allegiance. This is how you make Patriots. Happy Independence Day.
Also find Bill Dupray at The Patriot Room.
It had to be in Virginia.
Something tells me it would be prohibited in many California school districts. They either sing the Mexican anthem or the old commie standby: The Internationale.
Damn Michelle Obama, I AM proud to be an American!
Dupray, it takes more than singing songs and going through the motions to make a patriot. The learning you speak of is far more significant.
BTW, Mike, Californians are Americans just like you.
Happy July 4th.
Dave Hussein Noble: I’m still waiting for your apology the readers you referred to as “paranoid” and “racist” after suggesting this site was “filthy” with insults.
So comrade, forgive me if I don’t really care to be admonished by you. EVER!
Dave, do you think those kids will have more love for their country or would you put your money on the kids who grow up hearing God Damn Ameri-KKKa? You teach patriotism early and it becomes part of them. You teach a child about hating your country, and he grows up to be Reverend Wright.
Dupray: What do you want to bet that Dave Hussein Noble has no problem at all with kids being indoctrinated to hate their country? It’s called L I B E R A L I S M. There is no god but international socialism.
Michelle Obama just said that she finds it difficult to be proud of America!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhCPIwIyQRY
Then she makes other comments about being in love with America!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hVeWZjB8zM&NR=1
Can you believe it? How can her husband be president when she after all of those years needed specific events to be love America. Moreover, even after, she stills finds it difficult to be proud of America!
What a damn shame!
Just for the record!
Actually it was John McCain who said that, but thats okay, because he’ll get a pass. Has BHO ever said that he isn’t proud of his country or that he ever didn’t love his country?
I understand what John McCain meant and I truly love my country. And I don’t hold it against him. But why can’t MO and BHO get a fair shake here?
Mike,
Check my Comment 25 to Buffoon’s patriotism blog. You must have read because to responded to it.
Mike,
It’s early in the morning, let me try that again: “You must have read it, because you responded to it. ” There, that’s better.
‘This is how you make Patriots’
I’ll say. Drill a lot of nonsense into their heads before they’re old enough to know better.
As opposed to indoctrinating them to hate their country?
Give me patriots over sour libs anyday!
Mike typed:
Give me patriots over sour libs anyday!
And so it goes in Mike’s America. Always. Always. Always a simple yes or no. Either/or. Up /down.
Some things never change.
Happy 4th of July.