Sure, it seems a natural reaction to wish ill of the winner in a political race when you’re on the losing side – except when it is for the presidency.
Rule one has always been that no matter how much you dislike or disagree with a sitting president, when it comes to situations on the world stage, you shut your mouth. Complain all you like within our borders, but don’t give other countries the satisfaction of seeing you act like a buffoon, particularly on something like the Olympics.
I know there will be those who will call this “apples and oranges”, but back during the previous presidency, there was a group called the Dixie Chicks. They were ruined professionally by conservatives for committing the awful sin of saying that Bush was wrong to get into a war in Iraq. Ironically enough, some of those same people might actually agree with them now, but back then, “complaints” went to the level of death threats.
So dissing the Dixie Chicks is patriotic, and so is dissing Chicago, right? Wrong!
Coming out publicly saying that it’s a good thing that Chicago didn’t get to host the Olympics because Obama went to campaign for it is unpatriotic, period. It makes all of this country look like a bunch of uncultured, uneducated, mouth-breathing idiots instead of just the ones saying it.
These people have already been called adolescents, but that was too kind. You can’t wrap yourself in the flag after behavior like this – no one buys a false patriot.
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