Those Liberal San Franciscans do Love Their Blue Angels

This week is Fleet Week in the San Francisco Bay Area. That fact brings me to an oft-stated, but entirely false, assertion: that liberals hate the military.

Completely false. The claim serves the right wing purpose of casting liberals as weak-kneed elitists, but the facts don't support the charge. If you have any doubt, just scan the rooftops of San Francisco -- that most liberal of cities -- during the Blue Angels' show over the Golden Gate on Fleet Week. What you will find is thousands of liberals cheering and waving and relishing the noblest aspects of our military.

Liberals may dislike needless bloodshed or killing for profit, but that's a far cry from any anti-military zealotry. On the contrary, a citizen-headed military, as we have here, is one of the most liberal notions ever put into practice anywhere in the world. A military by, of and for the people. That's what we have, and we cherish it.

Don't let anybody tell you different.