Don't need this kind of love

Finally getting to a story that has been sitting in my browser tabs for almost a month... Rudy Giuliani ranted about how Obama doesn't "love America."

Melissa McEwen of Shakesville has the takedown: Yes, a frequent refrain by conservatives aimed at progressives in general is that we "hate America." We get labeled with that because we don't love all of America as it is. We despise America's entrenched bigotry, its disastrous foreign policy, its promotion of greed over community, its lack of compassion for the needy, its delight in ignorance, its belief that markets solve everything, its belief that it is God's gift to the world, its hostility to the idea that some could do with less so others could have a bit more. The list goes on from there.

These are the things that Republicans uphold, while refusing to own up to problems, wrapping themselves in the flag, and branding others as hating America – attack these ideas and you attack America.

These are the people who got us into Iraq, gerrymander state districts, disenfranchise voters, praise predatory lending that decimated Detroit, deny abortion and contraception, allow infrastructure to crumble, price college out of the reach of many students and overload the rest with debt, gut education funding, gut science funding, and many other things.

We don't need any more of this kind of love.