Posted on 07/21/2015 9:53:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
To honor service members killed in Chattanooga, President Obama orders flags be flown at half-staff at White House and other federal sites until sunset July 25.
(CNN)The White House and U.S. Capitol both lowered flags to half staff by Tuesday afternoon, after they were out of sync Tuesday in their tributes to the five U.S. service members who were slain by a gunman in Chattanooga last week.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky announced Tuesday that flags at the Capitol would be lowered to half-staff in honor of the victims.
"Out of respect for their courageous service and sacrifice to our nation, flags at the U.S. Capitol are being lowered to half-staff," Boehner said in a statement.
But at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, the flags at the White House noticeably remained at full-staff. Aides to the president have repeatedly declined to discuss whether the flags at the White House would be similarly lowered. Boehner's office said Tuesday that they had alerted the White House of their plans.
"I don't have more information about the status of the flag over the White House," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Monday. Earnest had nearly the same response for reporters Tuesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
I wouldn’t want them to do anything hasty!
Well, gee what a surprise!
Did anyone else noticed that the POS was adressing the VFW Convention in Pittsburgh this morning?
Some coincidence, huh?
And btw, he also flogged better VA care for PTSD afflicted Vets (without mentioning his efforts to seize their weapons) What a caring guy!)
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/barackobama/ss/Michelle-Obama-Vs-The-U-S-Flag.htm
The Muslim finally had to surrender.
Can't CNN afford editors any more?
"But at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, the flags at the White House noticeably remained at full-staff. Aides to the president have repeatedly declined to discuss whether the flags at the White House would be similarly lowered. Boehner's office said Tuesday that they had alerted the White House of their plans. "
Funny, it happened at about the same moment in Trump’s SC speech when he got a standing ovation for telling the President to “Lower the flags for crying out loud.”
The CNN article is very misleading. It doesn't appear Obama ordered anything, Boehner and McConnell did. They are hoping that Obama does the same with the WH flag.
about time. he couldn’t take the pressure anymore?
Wow, he caved.
0bama does a Bill Murray “Okaaay, if I have to”
I emailed the WH. I’m sure a lot of others did, too.
If this is true, this is surprising.
He generally doesn’t back down.
So the rainbow still lights up the white house on their Facebook, but they can’t order flags at half mast till he;s shamed into it.
Is five days some sort of magic number?
I note that he held his White House Eid-al-Fatr dinner right on schedule.
I'm waiting for Trump... or SOMEONE... to say right up straight he's a Muslim/Marxist and is destroying the country. Even Trump is still beating around the bush.
Doesn't matter whether or not he's a Muslim. He's a Shariaist sympathizer, and has been giving them aid and comfort.
And just how did we treat German sympathizers during WWI, or Nazi or Jap sympathizers during WW2? Commie sympathizers during the Korean War? And so forth.
BINGO!
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