American Patriotism is not the jingoist crap you Soviets are familiar with, Boris (I don’t much care who or where you are, or what your nationality is, to me you are one more useful tool in the Soviet inspired culture of treason in America). And, no, I’m not going to either define it or describe it to you, because it’s clear that you do not share enough American values with the rest of us to make the excercise worth while.
The man or woman who leads this nation must, above all things, love this country, the Constitution that defines it, and the ideas that made us who were are. He or she must be willing to sacrifice even their very lives, because once in office, America will test the new President, even to the point of using him or her up. That does not describe Senator Obama; Messiah Light is not it and his decision to pander to the rest of the fringe traitors in this matter is very telling. Ask GHWB and GWB (once he leaves office) just how much fun the Presidency is. (You can’t ask FDR, but all you have to do is look at the effects of 12 years in the White House as he literally deteriorated before the public’s eyes. Not a job I would want.)
The only American Patriot in this election cycle is John McCain. You cannot refute the essential Skipper; be, know, do. And he was a bird farmer, so that makes him crazy in the way we like our warriors and Patriots to be crazy, with passion and elan and absolute resolve. (If you don’t know what a bird farmer is, then we share no common experience, we just make noised in the same language)
Actually, I don’t really believe that executive experience is the central test of a candidate for the office. Lincoln was even less experienced than Obamasan, but he had a love for this Union and this Constitution that enabled him to grow into the office and become one of the most revdered Presidents. Wilson, not so much. FDR, again, not so much. Jack Kennedy, for sure, though he had to grow up fast in ’62. George Washington had to invent the office because, before him, no human on earth has ever had the experience and he is the model that all who followed at least try to emulate.
The test for the Presidency is character; McCain has already demonstrated his at peril of death, but what has Obama shown us? Not so much; if anything he has shown us that he has very little of the character that Americans value above all things in leaders.
