Obama orders flags to half staff at White House for Chattanooga victims

CNN.com ^ | July 21, 2015 | Jim Acosta

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I wouldn’t want them to do anything hasty!

[Covenantor]

Well, gee what a surprise!

Did anyone else noticed that the POS was adressing the VFW Convention in Pittsburgh this morning?

Some coincidence, huh?

And btw, he also flogged better VA care for PTSD afflicted Vets (without mentioning his efforts to seize their weapons) What a caring guy!)

[RedMDer]

Then Barry remembered:
Obama's wife leaned over and said to him, "All this for a damn flag?" Obama turned to her, smiled smugly and nodded his head in agreement.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/ss/Michelle-Obama-Vs-The-U-S-Flag.htm

[Georgia Girl 2]

The Muslim finally had to surrender.

[Sooth2222]

The headline and the first paragraph contradict the story. It's good if the Muslim-In-Chief was finally shamed into doing it, but that's not what the story says.

Can't CNN afford editors any more?

"But at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, the flags at the White House noticeably remained at full-staff. Aides to the president have repeatedly declined to discuss whether the flags at the White House would be similarly lowered. Boehner's office said Tuesday that they had alerted the White House of their plans. "

[hecticskeptic]

Funny, it happened at about the same moment in Trump’s SC speech when he got a standing ovation for telling the President to “Lower the flags for crying out loud.”

[JGT]

“Aides to the president have repeatedly declined to discuss whether the flags at the White House would be similarly lowered. Boehner’s office said Tuesday that they had alerted the White House of their plans.”

The CNN article is very misleading. It doesn't appear Obama ordered anything, Boehner and McConnell did. They are hoping that Obama does the same with the WH flag.

[Tanniker Smith]

about time. he couldn’t take the pressure anymore?

[b4its2late]

Wow, he caved.

[SkyDancer]

0bama does a Bill Murray “Okaaay, if I have to”

[ilovesarah2012]

I emailed the WH. I’m sure a lot of others did, too.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

If this is true, this is surprising.

He generally doesn’t back down.

[alancarp]

This is Obama's idea of saluting the flag:

[NRx]

[manc]

So the rainbow still lights up the white house on their Facebook, but they can’t order flags at half mast till he;s shamed into it.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Obama wanted to wait until at least five days after Ramadam (ending July 17) so as not to offend Muslims.

Is five days some sort of magic number?

I note that he held his White House Eid-al-Fatr dinner right on schedule.

I'm waiting for Trump... or SOMEONE... to say right up straight he's a Muslim/Marxist and is destroying the country. Even Trump is still beating around the bush.

[archy]

Is it time to take down the hate flag so beloved by the Chatanooga killer yet?

[archy]

I'm waiting for Trump... or SOMEONE... to say right up straight he's a Muslim/Marxist and is destroying the country.

Doesn't matter whether or not he's a Muslim. He's a Shariaist sympathizer, and has been giving them aid and comfort.

And just how did we treat German sympathizers during WWI, or Nazi or Jap sympathizers during WW2? Commie sympathizers during the Korean War? And so forth.

[Impala64ssa]

Is 0 trying to emulate Amanda Bynes as the Procrastinator, when she was cute and actually talented? What a sorry excuse for an administration.

[ealgeone]

BINGO!