Not My President

Salon reports: you decide. Is it unpatriotic for me to say that Bush is Not My President? Well, I would never actually be allowed to speak to him or attend any events of his, so he clearly doesn't think he's my president either.

A bigger question, of course, is whether I want to be patriotic in a country that condones torture by promoting those who promulgated the policies that produced it. And the alliterative answer to that is: no. Not just at present.

A new book on the Nuremberg trials just came out.: "Said Hanz Frietzsche, senior minister in Joseph Goebbels's Ministry of Propaganda: "I can defend myself in one sentence, 'I did it as a German patriot.'"