Image via WikipediaI was going to do a post about Jeremiah Wright’s ego, which was on display in his press club interview yesterday. But there are only so many hours in a day. So I’m going to comment very briefly on his claim that his military service proves he’s a patriot.

Wrong. Prior service, in itself, means nothing.

There were a lot of people with distinguished military service — indeed, these people not only had impressive military service, they all graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point — and they were all traitors to the United States and took up arms against it. The most famous of them was Robert E. Lee, but there were dozens of other West Pointers who were general officers in the Confederate army. None could be considered patriots of the United States in any sense of the word during the Civil War.

So you can forget about establishing your patriotism just by claiming your prior service, Jeremiah.