For God’s sake, it’s not even clever. A bad pun driving a despicable message.
Listen: General Petraeus may well be carrying water for the Bush administration — I’ll reserve judgment until his microphone starts working. And let me be clear: He is every bit a target of legitimate criticism.
But to impugn the patriotism of a man who is doing what the commander in chief has asked him to do — try to win the war in Iraq — is as despicable as Dick Cheney questioning the patriotism of those Americans who want us to redeploy from Iraq.
MoveOn is practicing a mirror image of Sean Hannity politics. And it deserves all the criticism it is reaping this morning.