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When Obama’s patriotism goes from implicit to explicit
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Apr 07, 2008 07:29pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, April 8, 2008 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Posted April 7th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
In his most recent column for Time’s print edition, Joe Klein urged Barack Obama to address what he labeled the “patriotism problem” by relying more overtly patriotic appeals. “[T]o convince those who doubt him,” Klein said, “Obama has to make the implicit explicit. He will have to show that he can be as corny as he is cool.”
Now, I argued that the entire subject is rather tiresome. Klein’s column quoted Obama, for example, telling a March 5 audience, “I owe what I am to this country, this country that I love, and I will never forget it.” That may have sounded like a patriotic thing to say, but it apparently wasn’t explicit enough.
So, it appears Obama tried to make his point abundantly clear over the weekend, speaking at the Montana Democratic Party dinner on Saturday night.
“I love this country not because it’s perfect, but because we’ve always been able to move it closer to perfection. Because through revolution and slavery; war and depression; great battles for civil rights and women’s rights and worker’s rights, generations of Americans have shown their love of country by struggling and sacrificing and risking their lives to bring us that much closer to our founding promise. And as long as I live, I will never forget that I am only standing here because they did. […]
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