Looking patriotic better than being patriotic for Dems

Dems patriotism has been on parade all week. B-HO thought the perception of himself sufficiently unpatriotic that he had to go out and make a speech about how patriotic he is. That’s sort of like the drunk publicly proclaiming his soberness only to found later face down in the gutter stinking of cheap gin.

What’s B-HO supposed to say?

I haven’t been around Rev Wright while he God damned America for nearly a month. My affirmative action queen wife has finally found something about America that she’s proud of…me and my sweetheart home mortgage deal. My good friend Bill Ayres hasn’t blown up anything in America in 20 years. And to seal the deal, I talk about my patriotism all of the time. I even wear one of those American flag pins now that it’s convenient. Short of being a war hero, how much more patriotic can I be?

Yet the lamestream media hail the anointed one’s speech, as they did his idiotic speech on race, as one for the ages. Christy Matthews’ leg is probably still tingling. Hey, in my book, if you have to make a speech hailing your own patriotism, something is wrong.

Then there’s this making the rounds:

Democrat Denver (site of the Dem national convention) Mayor John Hickenlooper’s annual State of the City address may get more attention for what wasn’t included than what was.

At the start of the event Tuesday morning, City Council President Michael Hancock introduced singer Rene Marie to perform the national anthem.

Instead, she performed the song “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” which is also known as the “black national anthem.”

When she finished, the audience responded with mild applause. The national anthem was never performed.

Hell I didn’t even know there was such a thing as the “black national anthem.” What’s the white national anthem? Silly me I’ve always thought that we just had THE National Anthem. I suppose B-HO will have to start singing THE National Anthem to again prove his patriotism.

There is a great scene in Casablanca – as the greatest movie ever there are a bunch of great scenes. A bunch of German officers are standing around the piano singing patriotic German songs. Then Victor Laslow stands up and begins singing La Marseillaise, the French National Anthem. The crowd joins in and drowns the Germans out.

Wouldn’t it have been great if B-HO had been there and just as Marie began, B-HO starts singing the Star Spangled Banner? Wouldn't it have been great is someone in the crowd did something? But alas, they're politicians.

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?