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Obama sports flag pin again after long absence
AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/13/08 | Charles Babington - ap

Posted on 05/13/2008 5:20:26 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - Like the American flag that Francis Scott Key famously wrote about, the one on Barack Obama's lapel keeps appearing and disappearing.

The Democratic presidential hopeful said he generally stopped wearing a flag pin after the 2001 terrorist attacks because he felt it replaced "true patriotism" for some public officials.

Some Americans, however, say they question the patriotism of a candidate who makes such a choice, a sentiment that shows up in polls.

Last month, the pin briefly reappeared on his suit jacket. Obama said a veteran had given it to him that day and asked him to wear it.

It wasn't seen again until Monday, when Obama spoke to a veterans' group in West Virginia. On Tuesday, when he spoke about the economy to workers in Missouri, it was there again.

Asked by The Associated Press why he was sporting the pin again, Obama said, "I haven't been making such a big deal about it. Others have. Sometimes I wear it, sometimes I don't. We were talking with a group of veterans yesterday. Over the last several weeks people have been handing me flag pins. I thought it was appropriate" for what "we're talking about. I've just been leaving it on."

Asked if he probably will wear the pin from now on, Obama said, "Sometimes it ends up being on another suit. If it ends up being on another suit, I might leave it one day, but it's something that I've done before and I'll certainly wear it again."


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KEYWORDS: absence; flagpin; obama
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To: Secret Agent Man
In all honesty, I was actually happy he WASN’T wearing the flag.

I have noting but love and respect for this country. I am repulsed that this muslim, whose spiritual mentor himself a former muslim, ever considers wearing the flag that many have fought and died for defending. Then I hear him say that he will dismantle the military making us unable to defend ourselves from serious threats. Then he says he wants to talk with our enemies without any conditions. There are of course many more example of this naive BS that this candidate wants America to embrace because he says he is the one we have been waiting for. Excuse me but, I am not waiting for him or any other jerk off that has been foisted upon us for POTUS.

21 posted on 05/13/2008 5:37:52 PM PDT by Born In America (Not convinced McCain has the fight in him to take on BHO)
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To: NormsRevenge

22 posted on 05/13/2008 5:40:24 PM PDT by elizabetty (Voting for McCain is like deciding to cut off your leg because it is stuck in a bear trap.)
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To: Born In America

The ascendancy of Barack He Whose Middle Name May Not Be Spoken Obama is the realization of the efforts of all the Cultural Marxists whose ideas were nurtured by the Gramcians who set up the Frankfurt School and spawned cultural radicals like Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, and Theodore Adorno. Their intellectual progeny are thoroughly ensconced in the MSM, academia, Hollywood, and most importantly in the George Soros directed modern day Democratic Party which is the nest for all the Vipers on the left, the racial identity determininists, the radical feminists, the sexual deviationist lobby, the “watermelon” environmentalists, the open borders crowd and the anti-war seditionists who seek to steal from our magnificent armed forces the victory that they have earned with their blood and valor in the SAME MANNER as they stole our hard earned victory from those of us who are Vietnam vets.
Their apotheosis is the religion of Obama, the Lucifer deceiver who would lead this great nation to Fabian Socialist HELL!!!
Should Barack He Whose Middle Name May Not Be Spoken Obama get a compliant Democrat Congress and Senate, the damage done to this country and to liberty as we have known it, would be incalculable. He is the most dangerous presidential candidates since Henry Wallace. Please check this link. It will tell you all that you need to know. There is credible info that could lead one to believe that his Indonesian stepfather to him to Mosque with the intent of making him Muslim. His own campaign said in a LA Time article that he was never a REGULARLY practicing Muslim, leading one to infer that he was an IRREGULARLY practicing Muslim. That is enough for the Muzzies to convict him as an apostate or to accept him as one of the faithful deceiving the dhimmis. Check the years 1971-1973 at the link below.
http://www.theobamafile.com/


23 posted on 05/13/2008 5:42:16 PM PDT by DMZFrank
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To: NormsRevenge
In a surprise move, Barack Obama explained that the has not previously been able to wear an American flag pin... since his lapel is usually occupied with a Dale Earnhardt memorial #3 pin.

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24 posted on 05/13/2008 5:42:55 PM PDT by nctexan
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To: nctexan
How could you disrespect “The Intimidator” by smearing his number with the image of the anti-christ?
25 posted on 05/13/2008 5:56:13 PM PDT by Born In America (Not convinced McCain has the fight in him to take on BHO)
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To: NormsRevenge

Anybody got a Flip Flop Lapel Pin? ;-)


26 posted on 05/13/2008 5:57:02 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: NormsRevenge
The Democratic presidential hopeful said he generally stopped wearing a flag pin after the 2001 terrorist attacks because he felt it replaced "true patriotism" for some public officials.

By the way, this kind of reminds me of John Kerry's throwing his "ribbons/medals" over the fence in protest and then rediscovering them later on.

27 posted on 05/13/2008 5:59:43 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: DMZFrank
I share your concern for the outlook of this country vis a vie an Obama presidency. I can no say that I am confident enough ill-informed electorate will do due diligence to become informed. The MSM is obviously in the tank for Obama. It clearly shows their contempt for this country and all that it for which it stands.

Thanks for the link. I have added it to my file on BHO. Too much more and I will need additional hard drive capacity.

28 posted on 05/13/2008 6:04:01 PM PDT by Born In America (Not convinced McCain has the fight in him to take on BHO)
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To: Born In America

Excuse me, but Mrs. Bill Clinton was the antichrist when BHO was still picking his nose in public.


29 posted on 05/13/2008 6:05:40 PM PDT by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .....)
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To: SandRat
Is it his 57 State flag pin??

Sure is!

30 posted on 05/13/2008 6:05:54 PM PDT by humblegunner (Che is Gay)
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To: NormsRevenge

I’m surprised it wasn’t a Cuban flag pin.


31 posted on 05/13/2008 6:27:46 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: NormsRevenge

Gotta put on a show for dem “hardworking” white folks! The idiots fall for it every time.


32 posted on 05/13/2008 6:41:12 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (De-Globalize yourself !)
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To: NormsRevenge
Wait, is this the same conscientious, committed “patriot” who declared that a pin doesn't make one a patriot!!???

What a hypocritical maroon!!

33 posted on 05/13/2008 6:44:26 PM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: NormsRevenge
But I doubt that he will say the Pledge of Allegiance or sing the Star Spangled Banner.


34 posted on 05/13/2008 6:54:43 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: NormsRevenge

” thought it was appropriate” for what “we’re talking about. I’ve just been leaving it on.”

Well, that’s mighty white of him.


35 posted on 05/13/2008 7:40:35 PM PDT by Salamander (And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent......)
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To: NormsRevenge

osama wears the hammer and sickle on his forehead. No lapel flag needed.


36 posted on 05/13/2008 8:04:37 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Governments hate armed citizens more than armed criminals)
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To: NormsRevenge

He’s counting on the nanosecond attention span of the average voter.


37 posted on 05/13/2008 10:16:15 PM PDT by informavoracious (Freedom Isn't Free)
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