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American flag with President Obama's image sparks outrage at Florida Democrats
foxnews.com ^ | March 14, 2012 | Joshua Rhett Miller

Posted on 03/14/2012 10:30:45 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

An American flag with President Obama's image in place of the stars flew over a Florida county's Democrat headquarters long enough to enrage local veterans who called the altered banner "a disgrace."

Lake County Democratic Party officials took down the flag, which flew just below a standard Old Glory on the flagpole outside headquarters in Tavares following complaints by local veterans. But merely taking it down wasn't enough for several local veterans, who said they fought for the flag Betsy Ross made famous, not one with a politician on it.

"It's absolutely disrespectful," Jim Bradford, a 71-year-old veteran who participated in the Bay of Pigs Invasion told FoxNews.com. "It's totally ridiculous. To put somebody's picture there, to me, it's a disgrace to do that."

Bradford, an organizer with the Veterans Memorial at Fountain Park in Leesburg, Fla., snapped photos of the flag and distributed them to fellow veterans and friends. By late afternoon, he and several other veterans delivered a copy of the federal flag code to Nancy Hurlbert, chairwoman of the Lake County Democratic Party.

"We read that to her, but she would not accept that," Bradford said. "The discussion finally got a little bit heated."

The flag, which had been flying for several months without complaint and is available online for $12.95, was later removed by Hurlbert.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: demorats; desicration; obama
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1 posted on 03/14/2012 10:30:49 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Burn that flag!


2 posted on 03/14/2012 10:32:22 AM PDT by BO Stinkss
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I’m speechless. What next, a graven idol of The Won for us all to worship? Shi-ite.


3 posted on 03/14/2012 10:33:07 AM PDT by tgusa (gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

call your congress-critter and voice your outrage


4 posted on 03/14/2012 10:36:35 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Surprised does not begin to describe the feelings I had when I heard the veterans went to ask Nancy’s permission to take that flag down.


5 posted on 03/14/2012 10:38:10 AM PDT by ngat
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Here it is. Only the dumbocrats would think this is a good idea. Of course the lady at the dem party headquarters insinuates it's racist by saying that this is about people not accepting Obama as President. Hey idiot, have you ever seen a flag like this with George Bush on it? Or Ronald Reagan? The left's impudence knows no bounds.
6 posted on 03/14/2012 10:39:26 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: BO Stinkss

Cut that Obama Rag Flag up and use it in the nearest outhouse/port-a-john.


7 posted on 03/14/2012 10:39:40 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

And of course...the race card was pulled.


8 posted on 03/14/2012 10:41:38 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Why do we eat Soylindra Green?)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Wow. That’s scary.


9 posted on 03/14/2012 10:42:09 AM PDT by b4its2late (Patience is not a virtue, it is a waste of time.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Someone with greater knowledge than I will have to answer this question, but is altering it in this manner considered desecration of the flag? Yeah, I know it is a desecration to put Obozo’s image on it, but I mean legally.


10 posted on 03/14/2012 10:43:05 AM PDT by Robwin
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Even Mao did not do this.


11 posted on 03/14/2012 10:44:45 AM PDT by magellan
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To: ngat

They did what was right, ngat. Had they taken it down without asking, they would have faced criminal charges, and local and national liberal media would spin it as ‘Crazy, senile, shell-shocked Veterans Tear Down American Flag’
Somewhere deep within the article would read about Obama’s face on it.’
Democrats have no scruples, no pride, no honor and no patriotism. It’s all about their guy, and whatever it takes to keep him in office.


12 posted on 03/14/2012 10:45:30 AM PDT by No_More_Harkin
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To: Berlin_Freeper

!


13 posted on 03/14/2012 10:45:34 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Simple: Kill the terrorists, Protect (all) the borders, ridicule all the (surviving) Liberals :^)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
By late afternoon, ... several... veterans delivered a copy of the federal flag code to Nancy Hurlbert, chairwoman of the Lake County Democratic Party. "We read that to her, but she would not accept that," Bradford said. "The discussion finally got a little bit heated."

"Humh! I do what I want!"

14 posted on 03/14/2012 10:47:03 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The facts of life are Tory." -- Margaret Thatcher)
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To: magellan
"Even Mao did not do this."

Mao had his little red book, Obama has his little blue book. If it wasn't deadly serious, it would be hilarious...

http://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Obama-Editors-History-Company/dp/0978736842
15 posted on 03/14/2012 10:47:46 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Well, it's not like Florida is some electoral-vote rich swing state that Obama needs to win or anything like that./s

Keep it up, furballs.

16 posted on 03/14/2012 10:49:59 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: Berlin_Freeper
This flag is the greatest disrespect I have seen to our great nation in decades. That any person could fail to see this is beyond all rational thought.
It should be burned now.

What coming next are they going to mandate that his picture be hung in every church? This reminds me of some of the crap hole dictators I've seen around the world where their ego is so huge they have to paste their faces on everything. Is this the kind of president we have? From this it sure looks like it to me. I did not spend all those years in the military serving any president, I served out nation and that is our nations flag that has been defiled.
Take it down and leave it down!!!!!

17 posted on 03/14/2012 10:51:03 AM PDT by oldenuff2no (Rangers lead the way...... Delta, the original European home land security)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

They should have picked a different picture of the metrosexual-in-chief. Perhaps the one where he’s wearing his fat-pants throwing a sissy pitch at a ballgame opener? Or maybe the picture of him bowing to his saudi bosses.


18 posted on 03/14/2012 10:57:30 AM PDT by Made In The USA (This post may be recorded for quality purposes.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Hang this incident around Debbie Washerwoman Schultz’s neck.


19 posted on 03/14/2012 10:58:43 AM PDT by sauropod (You can elect your very own tyranny - Marc Levin)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
HURLburg? Sounds appropriate.
20 posted on 03/14/2012 10:58:50 AM PDT by nomad
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