Anyone else like Obama's subtle jab at Rudy '9/11' Giuliani?

[Drunken Irishman]

[narnian60]

1. Oh, yeah.

Liked it VERY much, thank you..

[malaise]

2. Some great jabs

from Obama - a great speech

[PoliticAverse]

3. And here I thought he was speaking in support of Edward Snowden. n/t

[Demeter]

4. Such an optimist, you are!

[Scuba]

5. He knows it's not "my country, right or wrong," it's "righting my country's wrongs."

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

7. A few quotes on "my country, right or wrong".

The original quote comes from a toast that Commodore Stephen Decatur made in April 1816, "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.''

In 1872, Carl Schurz, in a speech in the US Senate, said "My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."

In his 1901 book, The Defendant, the Englishman G. K. Chesterton wrote, "'My country, right or wrong' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober'."

[Scuba]

8. +1

[Cha]

6. Yes, the willingness to speak out for what is right.. Not break the law..

Thanks for the quote from Selma today from President Obama, DI.

[Enthusiast]

9. That's a good one. There have been far too few jabs like that.

[rurallib]

10. Caught it, even clapped - don't know if it was aimed specifically

at Giuliani or all those 'American exceptionalism' idjits.

[Gothmog]

11. I also thought that this was Imed at Rudu

[sakabatou]

12. As Sen. Al Franken put it:

We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.

That's why we liberals want America to do the right thing. We know America is the hope of the world, and we love it and want it to do well.

[raven mad]

13. My mom walked that bridge.

50 years ago.

She voted for President Obama twice, then died - happy.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

14. Funny, all I hear the RW do is bitch about America. They want to change or kill so many of the

things that are part of America and which most Americans support, like Social Security, Civil Rights, Separation of Church and State, etc. Yet they do that Orwellian thing they do so well and claim Democrats who hate America because we find fault and want to fix it.

We want to change the bad things about America. They want to change the good ones.