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Has anybody got a flag pin?
Washington Times ^ | 5-02-08 | Wesley Pruden

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 ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; bo; flagpin; obama; pruden

1 posted on 05/03/2008 9:29:23 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing
You want to know what's in me? It's a love of country that made my life possible.

Which country?

2 posted on 05/03/2008 9:32:45 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: smoothsailing

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...


3 posted on 05/03/2008 9:41:41 PM PDT by Wade827 (Job 21:3)
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To: smoothsailing

I do.


4 posted on 05/03/2008 9:46:54 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: smoothsailing

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


5 posted on 05/03/2008 10:07:56 PM PDT by midway
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To: midway; ALOHA RONNIE
Yes, I do remember. We all must.
6 posted on 05/03/2008 10:15:11 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

I have a drawer full of US flag pins.


7 posted on 05/04/2008 12:52:08 AM PDT by SolidWood
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To: SolidWood

How many are made in China?


8 posted on 05/04/2008 4:18:30 AM PDT by bikerman (_ _ . /_ _ _ /_ . . / / . . . . / . / . _ . . / . _ _ . / / . . _ / . . . //)
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To: bikerman

No idea were they were made, but take your guess...


9 posted on 05/04/2008 10:04:09 AM PDT by SolidWood
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To: smoothsailing
Will this do?
10 posted on 05/04/2008 10:56:08 AM PDT by DryFly
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To: smoothsailing

No pin, but several neckties. I wear them while teaching. Kids love them.


11 posted on 05/04/2008 10:58:29 AM PDT by Chaguito
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