I'm watching the debate on the Internet over my morning coffee with some of my students at the school I teach at in Japan.
A student just pointed out that Edwards is wearing a Japanese flag lapel pin. I doubt he is- but online the quality ain't great. To those with a TV, what is that pin he's wearing? Don't look like Old Glory to me...
senate pin perhaps? It isn't a red circle, but a blue one.
It isn't a Japanese flag lapel pin. The Japanese flag is orange (maybe red, depending on who you're talking to) and white. This pin he's wearing has a dark center, definitely not orange. It almost looks like a union pin, but it's hard to tell with my non-HDTV connection.
it is a white disc with a blue dot in it.
I can't tell any more than that on my television.
well known fact, it is the pin from the Outward Bound wilderness program won by his late son. His 16 yr old son was killed in a 1 car accident several years ago. his current young children are "round 2" after that loss.
Of course, I've always wondered how a responsible parent could buy their 16 yr old a sports car, then leave town so that the inexperienced teen ager was forced to drive several hundred miles alone to join his family on vacation. A trial lawyer might sue the parents for reckless endangerment and wrongful death, as well as grotesquely exploiting a dead child for political gain.