Reply #91: "God Damn America!" is pretty clear, and is not a "different form of patriotism."

[Honeycombe8]

I am wondering if Gergen saw the videotape. What I saw was not "a different view of America" or "a different form of patriotism." What I saw, what I heard, was the flip side of the white supremacist groups.

At some point, a person's just gotta say....that's unacceptable. There may be reasons for their view, there may be some justification for some of their viewpoints, there be factual truth to some of what they say. But there's a line, and a decent person has GOT to say...hatred toward any other group of people is wrong.

Even if what Gergen says is true, though, that would mean that an Af. American could not be elected President. Americans are not going to elect someone who doesn't have traditional patriotic views, who thinks saying "God Damn America" is okay if you feel your patriotism differently. It's a person's right to feel and say these things. But you're talking about someone who wants to be elected to the highest office in the country, and wants the object of the hate talk to vote him in. It's just not gonna happen.