Posted on 08/19/2008 6:29:51 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
Rightwing fodder-- Barack Obama Invesco Field convention tickets picture upside down US flags- an international symbol of distress.
The DNC tickets printed for Barack Obama's acceptance speech at Invesco Field show an upside down US flag on both sides. This is the international symbol of extreme distress. FOX 9 reported:
Some viewers contacted 9NEWS Saturday, questioning the design of the credentials to see Sen. Barack Obama accept the Democratic Party's presidential nomination at INVESCO Field at Mile High.
The viewers say with the stars and blue field in the lower left corner, it looks like an upside down American flag. Published flag etiquette states the stars should always be displayed in the upper left corner. An upside down flag represents an international symbol of extreme distress.
Matt Chandler with the Obama campaign says the flag is not upside down. He says it is a stylized flag designed to blend the stars on Senator Obama's shirt with the flag blowing in the wind.
Natalie Wyeth with the Democratic National Convention Committee sent 9NEWS the following statement Saturday night: "The DNCC community credentials incorporate patriotic design elements. They do not depict an actual American flag. The DNCC has full and complete respect for the flag and all rules of display."
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Good point.
Everyone knows they would never, EVER do anything patriotic like that.
After all, the new Obama symbol was put on the tail of his airplane to replace the American flag.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
He says it is a stylized flag designed to blend the stars on Senator Obama’s shirt with the flag blowing in the wind.
No problem understanding the concept described.
However were is a published picture of Obama wearing a shirt of blue stars as depicted in the picture?
A slow moving story...hopefully now it will get a little play
NBC Colorado station was running the story sunday:
http://www.9news.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=97788&catid=346
This reminds me of the actually published — on the street — mewspaper headline saying “Dewey Beats Truman.”
BINGO!
I think people are getting a little tired of being taken for idiots.
The Moonbats fit to be tied..............
....”We abhor John McCain’s political viewpoints. But such is the disaster that Dean/Brazile/Pelosi have wrought by foisting an unqualified to be president flip-flop-flim-flam man on the Democratic grassroots that millions of good, true Democrats will vote for John McCain over a flip-flop-flim-flam Obama”........
Why doesn’t he just use the Che flag on the ticket & get it over with?
And the Press will ensure it stays that way. They will ignore it as much as possible. No way they want to do ANYTHING that could possibly embarrass or humiliate their hero's campaign.
Flag Etiquette
STANDARDS of RESPECT
The Flag Code, which formalizes and unifies the traditional ways in which we give respect to the flag, also contains specific instructions on how the flag is not to be used. They are:
* The flag should never be dipped to any person or thing. It is flown upside down only as a distress signal.
* The flag should not be used as a drapery, or for covering a speakers desk, draping a platform, or for any decoration in general. Bunting of blue, white and red stripes is available for these purposes. The blue stripe of the bunting should be on the top.
* The flag should never be used for any advertising purpose. It should not be embroidered, printed or otherwise impressed on such articles as cushions, handkerchiefs, napkins, boxes, or anything intended to be discarded after temporary use. Advertising signs should not be attached to the staff or halyard
* The flag should not be used as part of a costume or athletic uniform, except that a flag patch may be used on the uniform of military personnel, fireman, policeman and members of patriotic organizations.
* The flag should never have placed on it, or attached to it, any mark, insignia, letter, word, number, figure, or drawing of any kind.
* The flag should never be used as a receptacle for receiving, holding, carrying, or delivering anything.
That ticket will be a ‘collector’s item’. I wonder if it’s on ebay yet....lol
“The so-called peace symbol is really the Cross of Christ, upside down and broken!”
Oh...I always thought it was a chicken’s track in a circle...my bad....:)
In your picture, is that the back of the ticket?
Seriously. Some young lefty graphics design guy probably thought it would be a cool, subliminal message to the nutroots. *shaking head*
“The MSM has ‘collectively’ decided that any possible perceived slight or criticism of the Obama campaign is totally OFF-LIMITS!”
Any criticism of The Obama is now deemed as RACIST...
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/wrap+yourself+in+the+flag.html
It looks like to me that Obama has literally ‘wrapped himself in the flag.’
Very, very, very, VERY NUANCED!!!
I’m suprised that the tickets haven’t got the Hamas green flag on them.....but then I’m sure Obama considered it and
punted the decision others because anything important is “above his pay grade”.
“He says it is a stylized flag designed to blend the stars on Senator Obama’s shirt with the flag blowing in the wind.”
It’s likely that one of his Radical Socialist moonbat minions/worshippers did that on purpose, and everybody missed it.
TOO LATE NOW!!!
No doubt... the person who signed-off at the press check was an illegal alien.
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