As I thought, Obama has been able to turn Sarah Palin's pro-America enthusiasms into a pretty good riff (this from a speech to 35,000 in Indianapolis, of all places):
"There are no real or fake parts of this country," he said, a reference to a Sarah Palin speech in North Carolina in which she said she was happy to be in "the real America" and praised "the pro-America areas of this great nation." Obama continued: "We are not separated by the pro-America and anti-America parts of this nation—we all love this country, no matter where we live or where we come from. There are patriots who supported this war in Iraq and patriots who opposed it, patriots who believe in Democratic policies and those who believe in Republican policies. The men and women from Indiana and all across America who serve on our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and Independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a red America or a blue America—they have served the United States of America."
quite right - someone's got to say it! This hyperpartisanship is probably the most toxic of all the recent Bush legacies - "if you don't agree with me you're not a patriot"...
Posted by: elemjay | October 25, 2008 at 08:41 AM