I've just about had it. Fifteen years of Republican talking points have finally got under my skin. It's bad enough that they're almost always simplistic, misleading, repetitious, insulting, stupid, and just plain wrong. They also sort of cycle through patterns. It's one of the recurring ones that finally got to me. As Laura Clawson reported in her front page note, Republican hacks have taken President Obama's rhetorical efforts to drive a wedge between ISIS and Islam in general as an opening to revive the old Dinesh D'Souza canard that the President just doesn't love America. It's enough to make me change my nomination for F*x N**s motto from Post hoc, ergo propter hoc to the simpler Ad hominem.
But this notion that Mr. Obama doesn't love America? It's not just outrageously disrespectful, it also couldn't be further from the truth. Let me count the ways.