Obama speech in Independence, Missouri. He said,

“I will never question the patriotism of any of my opponents.”

Hey! Who has questioned his?

And then he said,

“I’m not going to sit idly by when someone questions mine.”

Now, who is questioning his patriotism? There might be some fringe people out there, for crying out loud, but who is doing it? Is McCain doing it? Who of any consequence or importance is questioning Obama’s patriotism? They’re questioning his experience!

If anybody wants to talk about questioning patriotism, how about Wesley Clark and what he said?

“I don’t think that getting shot down in a plane (grumbling) qualifies anybody to be president,”

… and so forth.

Every Fourth of July, some Democrat somewhere goes somewhere and talks about “patriotism.” It must be that there is some doubt, if you have to go out there and do this, if you have to give a speech on patriotism and what it means.

We know the Democrats have spent years trying to redefine it. Mrs. Clinton herself defined patriotism as criticizing the president.

They have been trying to redefine patriotism as the abject dislike of your country, as the abject dislike of your president and the dissent and criticism of both. That’s how they’ve been defining patriotism and so they have to go out there and make speeches about patriotism.

This is a fine time. The Fourth of July is coming up on Friday, Independence Day; this would be a fine time for somebody to run around and start talking about American exceptionalism — in either party, frankly — and reminding the American people what this country is, where it started, how it started, the Founders, all of this, what happened, the miracle in Philadelphia.

Obama, finished …

“No political party has a monopoly on patriotism.”

This is the one area… We find the Democratic Party when we look at them and we look at the leftists; we see them on offense. They just are relentless. They never stop.

But when it comes to patriotism, they are defensive. They do have to go out and remind everybody that they are, and now Obama is saying …

“no political party has a monopoly on it.”

So it must mean that they’ve got some focus group data that suggests it’s a problem.
Shocking isn’t it…

Obama finished, saying that patriotism — he defined it.

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.”

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time… All the time? If that’s what patriotism is, he has just accused his buddies on the left of being unpatriotic! I mean, not only do they not support the country all the time. They actively are engaged to inflict harm on this country! For example, in Iraq, they are enmeshed and they own defeat.

“…and your government when it deserves it.”

So that gives them, with that little definition, “Of course the government deserves being criticized when it’s being run by George W. Bush!”

So everybody is in the clear on that. “Patriotism is supporting your country all the time…”