May 4, 2008
HE'D LOVE OUR COUNTRY...:
Obama Faces Test in Asserting His Own Brand of Patriotism (Alec MacGillis, 5/04/08, Washington Post)
After watching past Democratic candidates wither under Republican attacks, Obama has sought throughout his campaign to present his own vision of patriotism, with a call for uniting the country and restoring its values that is, in its way, as redolent with gauzy American exceptionalism as the "shining city upon a hill" of Ronald Reagan.
...if only it had his values instead of American ones.... Posted by Orrin Judd at May 4, 2008 9:03 AM