Posted on 07/21/2015 8:45:26 AM PDT by pabianice
WASHINGTON — The White House provided no explanation Monday amid questions over why the president had not ordered flags across the nation to half-staff in the wake of a Chattanooga, Tenn., shooting that killed five servicemembers.
Spokesman Josh Earnest said President Barack Obama offered condolences last week and may speak to veterans at VFW conference Tuesday about the shooting, but he had no further comment.
Obama has issued presidential proclamations that lowered flags at federal facilities and military bases after many mass shootings, including attacks at the Washington Navy Yard, Fort Hood in Texas, and Sandy Hook elementary in Connecticut. The lack of a proclamation following the deaths of four Marines and sailor in a possible terrorist attack Thursday by a 24-year-old Muslim man rankled some and spark online outrage.
“I don’t have more information about the status of the flag over the White House,” Earnest said, responding to a question at a daily briefing Monday with the press.
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Obama: Because f- you, that’s why.
he’ll lower it to half mast IF the shooter gets sentenced to death
And people continue to deny who and what Obama is.
I wonder if there are any patriots left in hussein’s security detail or are they all Nation of Islam bodyguards by now.
I agree, credit due.
I agree, credit due.
But let’s not overdo it. :-)
You need to understand the demented democrat Marxist viewpoint, this was a crime, committed by someone who was mentally ill. Not continued act of war against us by Islam.
In my opinion, practicing Islam is a mental disorder!
In my lifetime it has seemed to me that the flag has been lowered to half staff more and more frequently. Of course flags and their positioning are all about symbolism. I feel that this frequent lowering of the flag is symbolic of a defeated nation. We should make lowering the flag to half staff a very rare occurrence and not do it after every tragic event.
They were just ordered to be lowered.
Obama didn’t call the family of the young woman murdered by the illegal either.
Maybe if the murdered Americans had been black Obama would have cared... Look how quickly Obama rose to honor the Ferguson Thug - and his family... and the thief Trayvon...
You’re right, it used to be pretty much only when a president or former president died.
Hey, they were just typical white people, and military at that. What’s the big deal? /s/
Well! We shamed him. I was wondering what it would take.
The explanation that he won’t speak: “I love the ROP beyond all imagination. They can do no wrong. The soldiers who were killed were probably Christians or Jews: their lives don’t matter to me. In fact, they probably deserved their fate. Also, if you haven’t noticed, I hate the military so much that I have fired all the generals who disagree with me, and am currently in process of castrating the military by forcing it to accept homosexuals and transsexuals. I will not order the flags flown at half-staff, unless it’s ROP members who are killed. “
Well, after all, the jihadi died, too, right?
The silence tells the tale.
one word: taqiyya
https://privatelee.com/search/?q=taqiyya&s=sbv4
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