“I was sitting at lunch with a colleague a few weeks back, and he mentioned that he did not understand the general media hubbub over Michelle Obama’s unpatriotic statements. ‘So she said that she hadn’t been proud of America in her adult life,’ he said. ‘So what?’ I answered that many Americans, rightly, were offended at the idea that a prospective First Lady of the United States was not proud of her country. ‘If you don’t believe this is the best country on earth, don’t live here,’ I said. ‘That’s ‘love it or leave it,’ he answered. ‘I don’t have to love everything about this country.’ ‘That’s right, you don’t,’ I stated. ‘But if you don’t believe in the essential goodness of America’s founding principles — if you don’t believe that those principles constitute the greatest set of essential values ever instituted on a national scale — then you don’t belong here.’” —Why America Is The Greatest Country On Earth
