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Obama orders flags to half staff at White House for Chattanooga victims
CNN.com ^ | July 21, 2015 | Jim Acosta

Posted on 07/21/2015 9:53:00 AM PDT by Kaslin

To honor service members killed in Chattanooga, President Obama orders flags be flown at half-staff at White House and other federal sites until sunset July 25.

(CNN)The White House and U.S. Capitol both lowered flags to half staff by Tuesday afternoon, after they were out of sync Tuesday in their tributes to the five U.S. service members who were slain by a gunman in Chattanooga last week.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky announced Tuesday that flags at the Capitol would be lowered to half-staff in honor of the victims.

"Out of respect for their courageous service and sacrifice to our nation, flags at the U.S. Capitol are being lowered to half-staff," Boehner said in a statement.

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.

"I don't have more information about the status of the flag over the White House," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Monday. Earnest had nearly the same response for reporters Tuesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; US: Tennessee; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2; chattanooga; flags; halfstaff; iran; obama; shame; tennessee; waronterror; whitehouse
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To: Kaslin

I wouldn’t want them to do anything hasty!


21 posted on 07/21/2015 10:04:54 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: Kaslin

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!)


22 posted on 07/21/2015 10:04:55 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who 4refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Kaslin
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

23 posted on 07/21/2015 10:05:51 AM PDT by RedMDer (Support Free Republic and Keep freedom ALIVE!)
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To: Kaslin

The Muslim finally had to surrender.


24 posted on 07/21/2015 10:08:03 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Kaslin
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. "

25 posted on 07/21/2015 10:08:59 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: Kaslin

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.”


26 posted on 07/21/2015 10:09:14 AM PDT by hecticskeptic (In life it's important to know what you believeÂ….but more more importantly, why you believe it.)
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To: Kaslin
“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.

27 posted on 07/21/2015 10:11:34 AM PDT by JGT
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To: Kaslin

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


28 posted on 07/21/2015 10:27:42 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: Kaslin

Wow, he caved.


29 posted on 07/21/2015 10:27:49 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Kaslin

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


30 posted on 07/21/2015 10:31:25 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( "Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Kaslin

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


31 posted on 07/21/2015 10:40:04 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Kaslin

If this is true, this is surprising.

He generally doesn’t back down.


32 posted on 07/21/2015 10:49:17 AM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: Kaslin
This is Obama's idea of saluting the flag:

33 posted on 07/21/2015 10:51:34 AM PDT by alancarp
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To: Kaslin
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-298v7Rop59g/Vaqqm1F_CeI/AAAAAAAAoh8/xdCM-cvHMws/s640/latherrinserepeat.jpg
34 posted on 07/21/2015 11:00:43 AM PDT by NRx (An unrepentant champion of the old order and determined foe of damnable Whiggery in all its forms.)
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To: Genoa

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.


35 posted on 07/21/2015 11:04:44 AM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Fitzy_888
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.

36 posted on 07/21/2015 11:05:19 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Kaslin; Old Sarge; marktwain
Is it time to take down the hate flag so beloved by the Chatanooga killer yet?


37 posted on 07/21/2015 11:10:42 AM PDT by archy
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To: Pearls Before Swine
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.

38 posted on 07/21/2015 11:14:04 AM PDT by archy
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To: Kaslin

Is 0 trying to emulate Amanda Bynes as the Procrastinator, when she was cute and actually talented? What a sorry excuse for an administration.
39 posted on 07/21/2015 11:20:18 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Fitzy_888

BINGO!


40 posted on 07/21/2015 11:24:49 AM PDT by ealgeone
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