Welcome to the Patriotic Party, Rest of the Country. We’ve Missed You These Last 8 Years.

Sort of sums it up. Watched Bushes welcome home speech in Midland Texas, the man has more decency and class than 90% of Hollywood combined, IMO -Jer


over at Red State
Posted by Jeff Emanuel (Profile)

Tuesday, January 20th at 6:07PM EST



It’s great to see the sudden outpouring of pro-Americanism and goodwill from a population which managed to repress those emotions so successfully over the last eight years. President Obama’s inauguration has apparently prompted folks like Ashton Kutcher, Aaron Eckhart, Marissa Tomei, and others to suddenly discover that they want to make themselves better by helping the poor, conserving, working together, and being the best they can be.

Contra what many supporters would have us believe, this doesn’t demonstrate the mythic ability of Barack Obama to inspire folks to come together across the divide and sing kumbayah in harmony; rather, it shows that the take-my-ball-and-go-home-when-I’m-not-catered-to crowd (of which First Lady Michelle “For the first time I’m proud of my country” Obama is one) has decided to come back and play with the rest of us now that The Other is gone and one of “theirs” is in the Oval Office.

To the Hollywood actors, the liberal blogosphere, and my more leftward-leaning fellow Arena contributors: welcome to the party. Most of us recognize that America is America, however much hate you may harbor for its leaders, and have supported it the entire time — through Reagan, through Bush, through Clinton, through Bush again, and will continue to do so through Obama’s presidency. We won’t agree on everything — for example, I hope much of Obama’s domestic agenda fails utterly — but it won’t stop him from being “my president too,” or me from patriotically supporting my own country.


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