Which core principle disappeared, then?

And, as well, our country has never hesitated to monitor communications made between a suspected enemy outside of the United States and any other person, no matter who that person was. You might have heard of our code-breaking techniques during World War II, in which we intercepted communications between an enemy and their own embassies. Certainly that was “spying” as you choose to define it, when part of the communications happened on US soil (which some of it did).

Which core principle have we jettisoned?

The truth is that the Bush administration has not done anything that other administrations haven’t also done in the middle of a war. Indeed, what the President has done has been mild compared to other administrations. When it comes to civil rights and domestic freedom, the Bush administration is a kindergarten recess compared even to the peactime government of Woodrow Wilson, who had government-endorsed thugs roaming the streets to enforce his edicts.

So, really now. Given a little US history education, you should have enough on the ball to know that we haven’t jettisoned a single core principle of this country in the past six years. Not one. It’s a nice little slogan and it riles up the progressives who have forgotten folks like Wilson and Roosevelt and it makes the DNC a ton of cash.

But it’s incorrect.