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Let's make our nationalist roots continue to grow

July 5, 2008 By GIL TROY Gil Troy is a professor of history at McGill University. His new book is "Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents."

The Democrats' dilemma, namely how to blast President George W. Bush without being accused of bashing America, prompted Sen. Barack Obama to affirm his patriotism in Independence, Mo., last week. Obama correctly insisted that "no party or political philosophy has a monopoly on patriotism," and patriots sometimes have a duty to dissent. But he avoided connecting patriotism to the idea of American...

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