Disrespect?

To the President?

Positively un-American!

Or so says the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson.

Throughout the speech, there was grumbling, mugging and eye-rolling on the Republican side that was not only undignified but frankly un-American.

We've heard for eight years, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, that dissent is patriotic -- indeed, that it is the highest form of patriotism. That includes claims that the Us deserved to be attacked on 9/11, and that the Bush Administration was actively complicit in those attacks. However, daring to show less than servile veneration to Barack Obama is, we are now told, beyond the pale and the essence of unAmericanism.

I beg to differ. And the audacity to make such a claim on 9/11 -- after years of defense of those dissenters by Robinson and his WaPo colleagues -- is particularly galling.

So here's to you, Mr. Robinson!