Just an exercise in preemption here: you didnt have to be tortured by NVA Regulars to earn the right to talk about patriotism and sacrifice. You shouldn’t vicariously feel MORE patriotic because you support a man who was (by his old definitions, NOT by GOP definitions, and NOT by his new definitions) tortured during Vietnam. I can already hear the “di di mao Obama” types…

I agree, you don’t have to be a tortured POW to talk about patriotism. Although it does lend one credibility if one’s lifelong associates are not a gang of notorious anti-American bigots.

Who did he learn patriotism from? Frank Marshall Davis, noted commie referenced as a mentor in his first book? Ayers and Dorn the terrorists, Wright the racist anti-Semite?

Why are so many of his past associates Communists, crooks, racists or terrorists?

You people certainly would never come up with solutions to anything or solve any real problems in this world or country being so FEARFUL of people who have little chance of harming you if enviroments that are totally safe for you.

Why not get into the heads of people you fearful people FEAR so much? Maybe you will learn something beneficial, you most likely will. How can it do anything, but benefit ones who want to be part of solutions?

Just think if Jesus had your attitudes concerning people that were seen as society’s parasites and seedy characters.