Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., wears a U.S. flag pin at a town hall-style meeting held at Thorngate Ltd. in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Tuesday, May 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Posted on 05/13/2008 5:20:26 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - Like the American flag that Francis Scott Key famously wrote about, the one on Barack Obama's lapel keeps appearing and disappearing.
The Democratic presidential hopeful said he generally stopped wearing a flag pin after the 2001 terrorist attacks because he felt it replaced "true patriotism" for some public officials.
Some Americans, however, say they question the patriotism of a candidate who makes such a choice, a sentiment that shows up in polls.
Last month, the pin briefly reappeared on his suit jacket. Obama said a veteran had given it to him that day and asked him to wear it.
It wasn't seen again until Monday, when Obama spoke to a veterans' group in West Virginia. On Tuesday, when he spoke about the economy to workers in Missouri, it was there again.
Asked by The Associated Press why he was sporting the pin again, Obama said, "I haven't been making such a big deal about it. Others have. Sometimes I wear it, sometimes I don't. We were talking with a group of veterans yesterday. Over the last several weeks people have been handing me flag pins. I thought it was appropriate" for what "we're talking about. I've just been leaving it on."
Asked if he probably will wear the pin from now on, Obama said, "Sometimes it ends up being on another suit. If it ends up being on another suit, I might leave it one day, but it's something that I've done before and I'll certainly wear it again."
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., wears a U.S. flag pin at a town hall-style meeting held at Thorngate Ltd. in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Tuesday, May 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Is it his 57 State flag pin??? LOL!
Sounds like a lapel flag is very important to him. Unless, of course, he happens to forget it on his other suit.
Now cut that out! lol
Obama takes wearing his flag pin vey seriesly.
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Asked by The Associated Press why he was sporting the pin again, Obama said, “I haven’t been making such a big deal about it. Others have. Sometimes I wear it, sometimes I don’t. We were talking with a group of veterans yesterday. Over the last several weeks people have been handing me flag pins. I thought it was appropriate” for what “we’re talking about. I’ve just been leaving it on.”
Asked if he probably will wear the pin from now on, Obama said, “Sometimes it ends up being on another suit. If it ends up being on another suit, I might leave it one day, but it’s something that I’ve done before and I’ll certainly wear it again.”
Interesting how he waited until the Dem nomination was all but wrapped up before sporting the pin. Didn’t want to offend any of his supporters while the nomination was still up in the air.
More like:
Democrat Obama, looking pissed off that he has to wear a US flag on his jacket.
In all honesty, I was actually happy he WASN’T wearing the flag.
It's about damn time. Who could vote for a man for President who hasn't enough affection for his country that he can't be bothered to where a lapel pin?
It's a very subtle pin...
The Manchurian Flag pin?
So Mr. Superior bows to the wishes of the peons. I’ll bet he hates that.
Ain't I evil? hehehehehehe
See reply #12, hehehehehehe I’m so bad1
Ha...Ha
(yes - I counted all the stars...)
I'll bet if someone wrapped him in a American flag, he'd lose his cookies.
That one was hilarious...
I guess I'd also accept his show of patriotism if he stuck his small flag lapel pin into his forehead.
I have noting but love and respect for this country. I am repulsed that this muslim, whose spiritual mentor himself a former muslim, ever considers wearing the flag that many have fought and died for defending. Then I hear him say that he will dismantle the military making us unable to defend ourselves from serious threats. Then he says he wants to talk with our enemies without any conditions. There are of course many more example of this naive BS that this candidate wants America to embrace because he says he is the one we have been waiting for. Excuse me but, I am not waiting for him or any other jerk off that has been foisted upon us for POTUS.
The ascendancy of Barack He Whose Middle Name May Not Be Spoken Obama is the realization of the efforts of all the Cultural Marxists whose ideas were nurtured by the Gramcians who set up the Frankfurt School and spawned cultural radicals like Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, and Theodore Adorno. Their intellectual progeny are thoroughly ensconced in the MSM, academia, Hollywood, and most importantly in the George Soros directed modern day Democratic Party which is the nest for all the Vipers on the left, the racial identity determininists, the radical feminists, the sexual deviationist lobby, the “watermelon” environmentalists, the open borders crowd and the anti-war seditionists who seek to steal from our magnificent armed forces the victory that they have earned with their blood and valor in the SAME MANNER as they stole our hard earned victory from those of us who are Vietnam vets.
Their apotheosis is the religion of Obama, the Lucifer deceiver who would lead this great nation to Fabian Socialist HELL!!!
Should Barack He Whose Middle Name May Not Be Spoken Obama get a compliant Democrat Congress and Senate, the damage done to this country and to liberty as we have known it, would be incalculable. He is the most dangerous presidential candidates since Henry Wallace. Please check this link. It will tell you all that you need to know. There is credible info that could lead one to believe that his Indonesian stepfather to him to Mosque with the intent of making him Muslim. His own campaign said in a LA Time article that he was never a REGULARLY practicing Muslim, leading one to infer that he was an IRREGULARLY practicing Muslim. That is enough for the Muzzies to convict him as an apostate or to accept him as one of the faithful deceiving the dhimmis. Check the years 1971-1973 at the link below.
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Anybody got a Flip Flop Lapel Pin? ;-)
By the way, this kind of reminds me of John Kerry's throwing his "ribbons/medals" over the fence in protest and then rediscovering them later on.
Thanks for the link. I have added it to my file on BHO. Too much more and I will need additional hard drive capacity.
Excuse me, but Mrs. Bill Clinton was the antichrist when BHO was still picking his nose in public.
Sure is!
I’m surprised it wasn’t a Cuban flag pin.
Gotta put on a show for dem “hardworking” white folks! The idiots fall for it every time.
What a hypocritical maroon!!
” thought it was appropriate” for what “we’re talking about. I’ve just been leaving it on.”
Well, that’s mighty white of him.
osama wears the hammer and sickle on his forehead. No lapel flag needed.
He’s counting on the nanosecond attention span of the average voter.
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