"Dohrn and Ayers blew things up. That's how you show love of your country? I don't think so."

George Washington and his generals and commanders blew things up too. The British saw them as terrorists at the time and would have hanged them if they had caught them. Washington and his people saw themselves as patriots. And so did the British loyalists who were fighting them! They ALL saw themselves as patriots. Dohrn and Ayers saw themselves as patriots too. Otherwise they would not have been strongly motivated at all to take such extreme political action. These young and passionate people, wrongheaded and foolish though they may be, ALWAYS see themselves as patriots, and your refusal to recognize that shows your own inability to empathize with other people. You lack the kind of compassion which understands why another human being does the things he or she does, you only read the outer cover of the book, you never look past it. This makes you the fanatic and the hater, just as much as those you castigate. Perhaps more so.

To interpret Michelle Obama's remark about being "proud of America" for the first time as meaning that she hates America is just patently ridiculous. It doesn't even deserve the energy it would take for me to type out a rebuttal.

Does she have some racist tendencies? Oh, probably so... If so, she is in good company, because about 99.5% of Americans, both Black and White, have some racist tendencies, and those will evidence themselves now and then when people are under stress.

You don't judge a human being on the basis of every idle word that leaves their mouth in every moment of their lives...unless you are an unscrupulous opportunist who is only looking to tarnish other people's reputations...

You judge them by the overall sum of ALL the things they have done in the course of their lives....and you take into account WHY they did those things.

That would demand a little patience, a little perception, a little humility, and a little ability to put yourself in another's shoes.

Let's see some of that for a change from you.