Speak Softly
Orcinus is as scary a record of everyday America as you can find anywhere. Dave Neiwert chills the blood with his true tales about the back roads of America's psyche. This blog should be served with a hefty slug of whiskey just to keep the nightmares down. Essential.
Mr Neiwert also offers options, and this one deserves as wide a dissemination as possible.
- " The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else. " - Teddy Roosevelt
UPDATE: Emphasis added at Dave Trowbridge's righteous suggestion.
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