Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Bush, who has told lies of omission and practiced historical revisionism to con this country into a needless war, is now accusing his critics of practicing historical revision themselves. This is a desperate, pathetic, and reprehensible tactic, all the more so because he has used it once again today, a day to commemorate the deaths of those who fought to preserve our country and the very rights that allow us to question and criticize our leaders.

To the disgustingly immoral, "patriotically correct" right-wing, here are the words of a Republican president that you should take to your shriveled hearts:  

[A president] 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.

-- President Theodore Roosevelt, May 7, 1918