As Bush and Cheney and their wives walked onto the White Hourse lawn this morning...

[drthais]

..and the band was blaring the Star Spangled Banner...
I had an epiphany.

Once upon a time
I heard a Patriotic Song..be it that piece or God Bless America
and I would get little tingly patriotic feelings
bleeding heart liberal that I am
but, this morning, with all of the solemnity of the ceremony
and this was C-Span, so there was no commentary...
I thought..."they're catapulting the propaganda!"
those pieces did not inspire patriotism in my soul
they disgusted me instead.
I felt betrayed listening to this music
and could they have chosen a more obnoxious choral arrangement?


this is very sad
it is one more thing that has been wrested from us
one more thing that has been taken.

I should be able to still be proud of my country
even though we are in very troubling times
but, no.
I can't even have that


damn these people

[Ilsa]

1. It would have been easier to watch Bush and Cheney

each take a dump in the Rose Garden and use the Constitution to wipe each other's ass.

[liberal N proud]

2. I have struggled with similar feelings

The flag and such things just don't make me choke up like they used to.
Once upon a time, as the flag would pass or the star spangled banner would play, I would get choked up in the middle. But that has been diminished over the way the bu$h regime and the neocons have wrapped themselves in it.

[spag68]

3. Sorry

Nixon ruined those things for me, long ago.