Posted on 05/03/2008 9:29:23 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Has anybody got a flag pin?
By Wesley Pruden
May 2, 2008
Patriotism is not always the last refuge of the scoundrel. Sometimes it's just the last refuge of a frightened politician.
Barack Obama, hotly pursued by his preacher and the crazy preacher's aggressive racism, has revised his stump speech. His once formidable polling lead over Hillary Clinton has dwindled to the single digits. The man who wouldn't wear a tiny American flag on his lapel is looking for a flag pin the size of a bass fiddle.
"You want to know who I am?" he asked a crowd in North Carolina this week. "You want to know what's in me? It's a love of country that made my life possible. It's a belief in the American dream."
All no doubt true. But the senator's own dream, which only a fortnight ago looked so dreamy, has begun to feel more like a nightmare.....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Which country?
If Barack loved America half as much as he claims to, he would have distanced himself from Jeremiah “G.D. AMERICA!” Wright a long time ago. Probably five minutes after he met the guy, if not sooner...
I do.
REMEMBER
The man who briefly wore a small American flag pin after 9/11, and quit wearing it because it was ‘false patriotism’, stood in front of
EIGHT AMERICAN FLAGS
on 3/18/08 in Philadelphia for his celebrated
(by the NYT and its ilk)
RACE SPEECH
desperate men do desperate things
I have a drawer full of US flag pins.
How many are made in China?
No idea were they were made, but take your guess...
No pin, but several neckties. I wear them while teaching. Kids love them.
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