Posted on 09/23/2012 5:18:31 PM PDT by lasereye
The Obama campaign produced a poster of an American flag, with Obama’s “O” symbol replacing the field of stars, as an item of campaign merchandise, selling for $35. The image was tasteless at best. It is hard to imagine any other politician arrogant enough to remake the flag in his own image:
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Barack Obama, however, has never been one to be deterred by bad taste. The larger problem was that, as many pointed out, the flag bore an uncanny resemblance to this grisly photograph taken at the American consulate in Benghazi:
So the Obama campaign has quietly ditched the flag poster, which now returns an error message if you try to buy it at the Obama store.
I can’t think of an analogy to this fiasco: the Obama campaign’s initial insensitivity to proper uses of the flag was bad enough, and then it was compounded by bringing to mind one of the administration’s foreign policy disasters. One can only imagine the hysteria if a similar mishap had befallen George Bush’s re-election campaign. And yet, our reporters assure us that it is Mitt Romney who has had a bad couple of weeks!
JOE updates: The Obama website returns this “page not found” message when you try to buy the flag:
Yeah: your bad.
The flag of the Kenyan, Muslim, Marxist usurper. I guess it didn’t poll very well.
No I want to buy one! It’ll be a better political artifact than Billy Beer.
CIC.....Celebrity-in-Chief.
Gotta have a bumper sticker....any idea if there is such a thing.
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Excellent!
well done!!! not to mention real Americans already have one...
wow!
I’m reading a Thomas Chaloner novel. He is an “intelligencer” during Restoration England. The books always revolve around religious fervor and excess. In Chaloner’s time, everything is anti-Catholic, or Papist. I’m struck by the nonsensical religious hatred in the books, because it reminds me so much of modern Islam.
Yes, Reform brought about a lot of hostility between Christians, and yes they fought ugly battles for years afterwards; the Civil Wars of Cromwell’s time, persecution of and by French Hugenots, up to recent times in the struggle over Northern Ireland. But in the end, both sides said enough is enough and moved on. Islam has no intention or inclination to learn from history. They thrive on hatred and emotion, bloodshed and fear.
The bloodied wall in Benghazi is a symbol to me of foolish religious intolerance not unlike the empty and barren churches, devoid of anything deemed “papist” (stained glass, statues, vestments, etc) of Chaloner’s time.
Even in a historical fiction novel history is there to be learned from; or repeated..
The 5 Bloody “Stripes” = 5 Pillars of Islam
Ping!
Do you have a link for that?
I have 911 on hold. I just wanted to quickly tell you that I think you gave me a heart attack. My lawyers will be in touch.
More detail on “The 5 Pillars of Islam,” as represented by Obama’s 5 bloody stripes flag:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Pillars_of_Islam
http://www.islam101.com/dawah/pillars.html
Placemark.
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