Tech author Dan Shafer posted the following on his blog today
(attributing it to JFK, but Google says otherwise):
"The President is merely the most important among a large
number of public servants. He 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 as 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."
Dave "Occasionally Base and Servile" Land
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