08-31-2016, 07:00 PM
(08-31-2016, 06:51 PM)OrlandoBengal Wrote: Agreed, but I think some of that would get really murky.
I think his goal was to spur conversation, which he has done. Unfortunately, I think there are many who don't want to talk about the issue and try to pivot away from it. Claiming that he is anti military, that he is disrespecting the troops, that he is not active in his community (I personally don't know how active he is or isn't). I think it is easy to try to change the subject because it is a difficult one to have. Unfortunately, I think it is one that needs to take place with open minds.
It is a conversation we have been running from literally since day one of our nation's founding. We still don't have liberty and justice for all. Saying that makes you very American. It is patriotic to say it and in fact it is your duty to keep saying it, "in order to form a more perfect union." The people who avoid the conversation and who denounce the call to keep America moving forward are her real enemies. They are treasonous cowards cloaking themselves in the flag. They turn my stomach and make my blood run cold.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
