Presidential candidate Obama was in our area yesterday talking about his notion of patriotism.  He has shown a penchant for getting his own history on the issues wrong in these kinds of speeches as well as the broader history of his country.  The fellows at Power Line have been particularly good at pointing out these lapses that the main stream media ignore.
Barack Obama gave a speech on patriotism today in Missouri. As always when Obama waxes "eloquent," the media swooned. And, as always, the speech raised interesting questions if you actually read it.

The implicit premise of the speech was that Obama's patriotism is being widely questioned. As far as I've seen, that isn't true. What has happened is that Obama's judgment and political ideology have been questioned because he has chosen to associate himself closely with people who manifestly are not patriotic, like Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright. . . .

Finally, Obama's surprising ignorance of American history, on which we have commented a number of times, was again on display. . . .
Check out the whole thing for specifics.