Comments on: Joel Stein: Liberals don’t love America the way conservatives do

By: chapo

chapo — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:22:30 +0000

IF you don’t love America for what it is, then you can get the hell out of this great country. i love America (UNITED STATES) because we dont fight religious wars.

By: Two Kinds of Love | The Blog of Record

Two Kinds of Love | The Blog of Record — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:16:48 +0000

[...] from last year but it is worth reading: liberal LA Times columnist Joel Stein: “[Conservatives] do love America more”. “Conservatives feel personally blessed to have been born in the only country worth living in. I, [...]

By: Bilwick

Bilwick — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:47:57 +0000

Liberals love America the way some inbred husband on COPS or the JERRY SPRINGER SHOW loves his wife: “I love you, honey. But sometimes you get me so mad when you don’t listen to me, I just feel like I have to smack you around a little.”

By: StevefromMKE

StevefromMKE — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:15:57 +0000

Wasn’t Stein the little cretin who said he doesn’t support the troops, yet tried to assign his personal guilt onto those same troops in Iraq?

By: adrianna anderson

adrianna anderson — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:00:16 +0000

Holy crap Cassy! If I could write like you I’d be published by now. You never cese to amaze me with your writing

By: wpdunn71901

wpdunn71901 — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:16:38 +0000

Joel Stein is the poster child for the Manchild Nation

By: Knott Buyinit

Knott Buyinit — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:20:49 +0000

“…I wish I felt such certainty. Sure, it makes life less interesting and nuanced, and absolute conviction can lead to dangerous extremism, but I suspect it makes people happier….”

I dunno, he sounds pretty certain about conservatives to me.

Look, this guy is just ticked off that ‘baby didn’t get his bottle’ from the California gay marriage vote. So, he’s mad at the world, big deal, cry me a river sugar-pie, honey-bunch.

“…True love is the blind belief that your child is the smartest, cutest, most charming person in the world, one you would gladly die for….”

Bull$hit…that’s not true love, that’s not even false love, that’s mere illusion. True love is loving someone as you love yourself – unconditionally, but completely honestly.

Conservatives don’t love America because they think she’s perfect or because they are blinded to her flaws. If conservatives are willing to overlook America’s flaws more readily than liberals, perhaps it is because of another emotion conservatives feel more keenly toward America, and those who defend her, than liberals: gratitude.

Look, this is a 50/50 country, basically. At any given time, half the country agrees with this guy and half doesn’t. What he’s really saying is that he can’t love America as long as there are conservatives in it. Who’s being all “certain” and intolerant and childish looking at it that way?

One piece of advice to sugar-pie guy’s “wife” (rolls eyes – yeah, right, he’s married to a woman), get him to explain what he meant by this: “…I’m the type who always wonders if some other idea or place or system is better and I’m missing out. And, as I figured out shortly after meeting my wife, that is no way to love…”

So…….does that mean he loves his wife the way a conservative loves America does despite all the crybabying in the preceding paragraphs? Or does that mean that he is just “in like” with her now, because, you know, she up and burned the toast or something? I dunno, sounds more confused than “nuanced” to me. Hey, maybe that explains all the wahwahing about the gay marriage thing…

By: Hyscience

Hyscience — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:02:40 +0000

Liberal on loving America: ‘ Liberals don’t love America the way conservatives do’…

According to Joel Stein, Republicans, and especially the “eeeevil” hard right, are blinded by love, and to him that seems to be a bad thing. In fact, he appears to be proud that he’s looking for wrong in all the right places. In fact, Stein writes t…