"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel", it is also the last refuge of a coward like Mitt Romney that demonstrated for the Vietnam War but refused to go to that war and risk his skin, with the stupid pretext of being a "Mormon Missionary"

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Mitt Romney wants us to believe that "Liberalism is the last refuge of a Communist", but perhaps his "Patriotism is the last refuge of an Idiot", Mitt is a rookie, novice, debutant and total ignorant of Foreign Policy.

Mitt refused to go to Vietnam to protect his beautiful skin of a pampered child and spoiled brat while exercising his powers of a Bully, "Brutal Barber" and "Fake Cop" at age 18, when the neurons of the brain have been perfectly connected in a 99.99% and the personality is totally formed.

Mitt Romney returned from a foreign trip in which he preached Jingoism, Violence, Brutality, Warmongering, Fearmongering, Belligerence, Hostility to Real or Imagined Enemies.

And always presenting President Obama as a coward and sissy that shits in his pants before enemies.

But President Obama killed America's Number One Enemy : Osama Bin Laden, while Mitt Romney was talking a lot of nonsense about the impossibility of Obama achieving that feat.

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" by Samuel Johnson, April 7, 1775

Johnson did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self-interest.

The context in which Johnson's quote emerged was in response to John Stuart, the third Earl of Bute, who was Minister of Patriotism, and did not refer to patriotism in general but rather to Stuart's use of the term. He was condemning that minister that was always bragging of his patriotism for personal advance. ( like Mitt Romney ! ).

From Wikiquote :

Dr Samuel Johnson ( 1709 - 1784 ) was a British author, linguist and lexicographer. He is often referred to as simply Dr. Johnson in the history of literature and is regarded as the greatest man of letters in English history.

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From Thom Hartmann
( Radio Program, TV Show, News, Opinion, Debate )


To Glenn Beck....Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel
Submitted by louisehartmann on 27. August 2010 - 8:35

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is reporting, according to FBI statistics that there's been a spike in anti-Latino hate crimes.  This trend seems to be picking up steam side by side with the national debate over immigration reform. The report also takes a direct aim at politicians’ anti-immigrant rhetoric.

For example, Texas Republican Reps. Louie Gohmert and Debbie Riddle warned the world of “terrorist babies” They claimed pregnant terrorists were sneaking across the border and give birth to future terrorists who would later “destroy our way of life.” FBI Director Tom Fuentes eventually took to CNN to debunk the rumor. “There was never a credible report—or any report, for that matter …  to indicate that there was such a plan for these ‘terror babies’ to be born."

Meanwhile, a new CBS survey of 1,082 adults finds that just 24% of respondents have a "favorable" view of Islam. Nearly 40% said they had an "unfavorable" view of the second-largest religion on the planet, while 37% said they don't have no opinion. Just 22% of all respondents said it was "appropriate" for the Muslim cultural center to be built near Ground Zero, while 71% said it was "inappropriate." These statistics demonstrate that extraordinary power of right wig hate radio and Rupert Murdock's propaganda machine, Fox News, to influence public opinion when they join with Republican party hacks.

To paraphrase American founder Samuel Johnson, "Hateful, exaggerated patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel"

From Thom Hartmann
( Radio Program, TV Show, News, Opinion, Debate )


To Glenn Beck....Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel



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