I remember Bush when he ran the first time talking about humble US foreign policy. What a load of s#@$. Lesson: don’t believe what they say. McCain talks humble, let’s see him walk it.

Everybody has been second guessing the war, and it’s one of the qualities of American government that set us apart from those ideologically rigid dictatorships who don’t see the tide coming until they’re drowning.

Go read Clausewitz, or ANYTHING for that matter (On Strategy is a good choice), and you’ll see that political objectives will and must change to fit what happens in chaotic situations. So Bush was wrong, and here we are.

Our current President has changed the objective in Iraq because the facts didn’t bear out the original objective and yet there was obviously a lot of work to be done as a result of the invasion, for better or worse. You break it, you bought it.

Michelle Obama should talk to those faithful who still promote Stalin as a great leader, and who talk about the great advances the Soviet Union made in education and technology during that era. The United States has traditionally been quick to denigrate the accomplishments of tyrants. On that point alone the United States (including its government) deserves credit, and another big fat negative for those vocal few in the Obama camp who think that continuing to be negative supports their candidate (which it doesn’t, and doesn’t appear to be something he appreciates).

McCain said exactly what I would hope a man seeking to become Commander In Chief would say. I can only speak for myself but I find it easy to express great pride in the United States right up to the moment the current Commander In Chief was called up to begin making decisions.

I will be proud when people start voting because of the issues and not because of who a candidate knows or is associated with. Who cares about Rev Wright or John Hagee. They are not the ones running for office. I could care less about lobbyist or what a wife says. How much money they have. I am much smarter than that. I am smart enough to know that a President will not be able to deliver on everything they promise. I just listen to the policy’s of each and vote with who I believe is better for America. BTW . .I voted for Bush . .

Thank you, to Mr. McCain, for giving us an alternative to Clinton, and a right answer to the blind-sighted stumblings of Mr. Obama. This country is ready for a strong answered leader, who isnt a war profiteer. The oil companies profits should be illegal…( tens of Billions per quarter);certainly immoral. I’ll vote for the leader who can show me that the oil companies do not have the right or the power to ruin our country, just because they pay off our law makers.

Just to continue my thought, I challenge people who are critical of these types of thought about pride, to tell us what we have, in the big scale, and current time frame, to be proud of?? What in our society is so great that we should toot our horns? Individually, a lot of us do as much as we can to help others, effect change, raise our families well. Helping those in need. Trying to be “green.” Individually we try. But when other countries look at us, they see fat, lazy, war hungry, greedy, self centered people. They see a government that has stripped the rights and liberties of not only their constituents, but anybody they consider different. We need to change that perception. We need to change that reality. And it starts with acknowledgement of the fact that there is little to be proud of, and we need to work hard to regain that pride and excellence in the eyes of the world.

I’m always proud of my country, but the corporate elites are killing us.

And as for the McCain “losing his spine” post, if John McCain has lost any spine, he still has more than most people will ever have.

Pride comes before the fall…
You faux-patriots best take an honest, in-depth look at the real history of America. This is, no doubt, the greatest country on the planet, as was the Holy Roman Empire, and numerous nations past that have since fallen. Pride and arrogance are rampant in American leadership, and a large (but dwindling) number of citizens. Your hollow claims of “patriotism” are nothing more than a thin veil covering your true sickness: WHITE SUPREMIST MENTALITY (acute Cognitive Dissonance).

McCain is ASHAMED to be an American. Is this the kind of President we want? Shame on you, McCain.

No major world power is always going to be able to be proud of all they do. This is true whether it is run by a dicator (good or bad) or by a dysfunctional democratic system (and they are all dysfunctional in some ways). Michelle Obama’s much distorted comments were obviously about a narrow issue of voter participation, but frankly the broader issue is just as real. If you want to say that you are proud of EVERYTHING about the US in past history or even recent history, you have not paid much attention to history. There are many, many great things about this country, people and political system. That does not mean that it is perfect. Real patriots don’t try to deny that.