U.S. considers dipping flag at opening ceremony

Reuters via Yahoo News ^ | 7/26/12 | Steve Keating

[Kartographer]

The United States may break with a controversial tradition and dip its flag to Britain's leaders at the opening ceremony for the London Olympics, U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) CEO Scott Blackmun said on Thursday.

[Kartographer]

This should send the Founders not just rolling in their graves, but raising up out of them!!!

[dfwgator]

“This flag dips to no earthly king.”

[rarestia]

That is... I don’t know what to say.

As a citizen and a member of We The People, I not only demand answers, but I want every last person complicit in this idea, from the President down to the janitor, to account for their involvement and be imprisoned.

This casts America in a light not seen since before 1776.

We’re moving backwards, people.

[JennysCool]

What’s this, Obama trying to make up for the Churchill bust and the cheap DVD set?

[Not A Snowbird]

We’re on British soil, so I don’t think I have an issue with this. It would be done out of respect for the host country, not to demean us.

If the games were here, then no way.

[dfwgator]

I frickin’ knew this was going to happen. Bet Michelle “All this for a damn flag” called them and told them to dip the flag.

[Responsibility2nd]

Why not send that dip Obama - to bow to Great Britain’s leaders?

We’re used to that.

[Made In The USA]

Why don’t they have Obama leading the procession; bowing and apologizing to all other countries as he walks by?

SCREW THIS. Raise the damn flag HIGHER when you pass the Queen (and I mean THE Queen not Obama the limp wristed metrosexual).

[dfwgator]

We’re on British soil, so I don’t think I have an issue with this. It would be done out of respect for the host country, not to demean us.

We didn't do it for Hitler, we didn't do it for King George in 1948, we didn't do it for the ChiComs in 2008, so why start now?

[Amagi]

USOC weenies make me wanna puke.

[saganite]

Why, it’s just like Obama bowing to all those foreign rulers. An apology. In this case it would be an apology for daring to depart the Empire.

[firebasecody]

If the flag bearer is a patriot, they won’t dip.

[ConorMacNessa]

HELL NO!!!!　



Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[dfwgator]

I hope they just threw that out as a trial balloon to gauge the reaction.

[Kartographer]

"We recognize no Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!”

April 18, 1775, on the eve of the Revolutionary War after a British major ordered John Adams, John Hancock, and those with them to disperse in: “In the name of George the Sovereign King of England."

[Sporke]

We would never dip our flag to England. After all, they aren’t a mooslim country....

[MagUSNRET]

HOLY CARP PINGS!

THis is freakin UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!! Not to mention a slap in the face to ALL military past and present that died for that flag!!!!!

Gawddamned politically correct liberal pieces of crap!!

(now where did I put that pitchfork...........)

[MissMagnolia]

No .... if you’re going to do that, just give up the pretense of being a once great country and go “whole hog” with the bowing & scraping thing. Mooschelle will be leading the Olympic contingent and she can stand in for Obozo when it comes to bending over - she’s got enough junk in the trunk to make a real ‘statement’.

[Surrounded_too]

Obama Family’s Fault.

NO.. NO .. and HELL NO.

[ConorMacNessa]

But they're getting there, Shipmate!　



Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)