Posted on 04/18/2008 6:19:50 PM PDT by kellynla
Hillary Clinton got caught in a lie when she said she had dodged sniper fire during a 1996 visit to Bosnia. Now her Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama has been caught in a “sniper fire” lie of his own.
During Thursday’s debate in Pennsylvania, Obama was asked why he doesn’t wear an American flag lapel pin, as do many other politicians as well as servicemen and law enforcement officials.
“I have never said that I don’t wear flag pins or refuse to wear flag pins,” he responded.
“That is the kind of manufactured issue that our politics has become obsessed with.”
But Obama did indeed declare that he does not wear flag pins, Andrew Malcolm of the Los Angeles Times noted.
During a campaign stop in Iowa last October, a reporter asked Obama why he wasn’t wearing a flag pin to express solidarity with 9/11 victims.
This is what Obama said back then: “You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we’re talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of important to our national security. I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest.”
Pins are a problem for Dems. I remember some eagle pin with Hillary back during the co-presidency, that caused some flap. There was a TV talking head, Walters? who suddenly took hers off before airtime, saying “I can’t wear this on camera!”
Plus DS-USA pins being seen on certain people.
“Who was he playing to, and what was the real message he was sending?”
I have sooo been wondering the same thing.
No, the moonbats of the far left would have condemned him as a sell out. I.e. he would have thought that of himself.
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