Reply #47: I'm not offended at all - yours is a good argument - it's the [View All]

[Cogito ergo doleo]

situation itself that I see as invalid, because it's no one's call as to how you or I or Michelle feel concerning pride in our country; we have all had different experiences that would shape that feeling. I don't know when pride in country became a patriotic test.

I absolutely agree that it was a mistake to have said it from a political standpoint, because her statement is being seized upon, twisted into something other than it is by making it a measurement of her patriotism - (which is what I was trying to convey in my first post to you).

I see what you mean, and I'm sorry I misunderstood you. I think you make a valuable point. I hope that MO will be more careful in how she expresses herself. Her husband is running for President of the United States.