In George Washington’s day it took more than knowing when to use the salad fork to make a statesman.

Tomato is an oddball, that’s for sure.

Similarly, nobody has ever called me a “patriotic George Washington admirer.”

Hoisted with his own petard!

Wasteful foreign entanglements have swallowed America’s budget. Such a failure of leadership. George Washington would never have allowed this to happen.

Trump is no George Washington, that’s for sure. But that’s no reason to insult America’s farmers.

George Washington was a farmer. Those spiteful commenters who curse farmers are cursing the Father of America.

The Pledge exists on that knife edge where patriotism bleeds over into jingoism. Not a safe place for kids. It’s better to have kids take a minute every morning to stare in silent admiration of a portrait of George Washington.

No American leader of this century even comes close to measuring up to George Washington. He is unquestionably the best American leader.

The only reason Trump’s “political stunt” was even possible is because President Obama broke the promise he made to the American people to remove American soldiers from Iraq. President Washington would never do such a thing. He did not tell lies and he knew the wisdom of avoiding foreign entanglements. He was a great…

Wait, this is a U.S. federal law that contains accountability clauses that require tribal authorities to enforce it? How ironic. The federal government has broken countless treaty obligations with Native American tribes. Tribal authorities would be well within their rights to ignore any directives from the federal…

A shameful sunshine patriot. Why couldn’t Trump do the honorable thing and flee to Canada like the hippies?

Does vetting ever actually work? Trump’s great innovation was to inoculate himself from any damaging effects of scandalous sexual impropriety by being an openly piggish womanizer. Voters already knew what he was, so new allegations drew yawns, not gasps. It was a successful strategy. Democrats should consider trying…

You raise some good points. We should not allow our love of America to blind us to her faults.