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USA Today: Obama Tops All Presidents Ordering Flags to Half-Staff
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Posted on 06/16/2016 7:17:18 AM PDT by MNDude

President Barack Obama owns the dubious presidential record for ordering flags lowered to half-staff, having issued the directive 66 times during his tenure, USA Today reports.

The country is in the middle of No. 66 to honor the 49 people killed in Sunday's massacre in Orlando. George W. Bush is second with 58 such orders and Bill Clinton third at 50, USAT reports.

Fourteen times Obama has ordered the flag lowered at federal buildings and ships at sea due to mass shootings. Honoring the victims from each of those events has accounted for 79 days with flags at half-staff.

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1 posted on 06/16/2016 7:17:18 AM PDT by MNDude
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Appropriate. I’ve been in mourning since he was elected.


2 posted on 06/16/2016 7:19:56 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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You have to cut him some slack considering he also holds the record for mass shootings on his watch.

That kind of $#*+ tends to happen when you elevate the violent and deviant types while demonizing the law-abiding and normal types.

IOW, the inmates are running the asylum.

3 posted on 06/16/2016 7:20:21 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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"Especially during partisan times, when there's polarization among the American people, presidents are seeking a way to find a mechanism to unify people," University of Houston Professor Brandon Rottinghaus told USAT. "This allows him to connect on an emotional level rather than a political or a policy level."

What a colossal load of Rotting-horse plop. The only reason the White Hut does anything is to divide Americans to further their Party conquest agenda. If they are shown to recognize deaths more often than any previous regime, it's because the act of honoring some will enrage others.

4 posted on 06/16/2016 7:22:12 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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Obama, not only does he have flags flown at half staff, but his progressive, left wing programs and policies are responsible for most of the events for which the flag is flown at half staff.

BTW, as we all know, Omar Mateen was a gay Muslim democrat terrorist murderer.


5 posted on 06/16/2016 7:22:25 AM PDT by Perseverando (For Progressives, Islamonazis & other Totalitarians: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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Since this nation is in deep trouble, why not have them at half staff and raise them to full staff only when we have good news to trumpet. With the Kenyan in office, that would be almost never.


6 posted on 06/16/2016 7:25:38 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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How many of the 66 times are a direct result od a Muslim? Just wondering....


7 posted on 06/16/2016 7:32:42 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: MNDude

We are all whitney houston.


8 posted on 06/16/2016 7:35:14 AM PDT by corbe (mystified, still. But never hillary)
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Is it true that Barry ordered the WH flag flown at half mast the day he was constipated?


9 posted on 06/16/2016 7:38:49 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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CORRECTION: Christy lowered the Flags for whitney, not obummer


10 posted on 06/16/2016 7:39:07 AM PDT by corbe (mystified, still. But never hillary)
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To: MNDude

Well, at least he got his legacy..


11 posted on 06/16/2016 7:39:57 AM PDT by rainee (Her)
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It’s absolutely disgusting, this constant prostrate position for our country.

Sign of total weakness. This garbage needs to stop.

The poison spread to state-level, where even our Repub gov is staring to lower the MD flag for every officer that gets shot.


12 posted on 06/16/2016 7:45:59 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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I proudly stand with those that wait in anticipation for the flag to be flown half staff in honor of the poser in chiefs demise.


13 posted on 06/16/2016 7:49:18 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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Flags at half-mast. A powerful weapon against terrorism! :/


14 posted on 06/16/2016 7:52:13 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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WHo is the flag lowered for? Mateen?


15 posted on 06/16/2016 7:53:41 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: showme_the_Glory

7 of those times would have been for Patriots Day (9-11).

Then there was Boston Bombings, San Bernadino, Paris, Belgium, Orlando, Libya Attacks. That’s all I can recall at this time. It’d be interesting to have a list though.


16 posted on 06/16/2016 7:54:39 AM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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To: MNDude

http://us.halfstaff.org/

Has list.


17 posted on 06/16/2016 7:58:34 AM PDT by CJ Wolf ( !)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I’m in Maryland as well and currently in the throes of a deepening depression.
When I heard Katy Tur report last week that Trump told donors at Trump Tower he was thinking of putting our state in play, I immediately called Hogan’s office and implored them to everything possible to help deliver MD for Trump in November. Hogan had stayed on the sidelines in the primary and I was hoping to impress upon him what was at stake. The very next day, I learned that he didn’t even want to talk about Trump and doesn’t plan on attending the convention. This week, he flatly declared he will not be voting for Trump in November! What an outrage that he cannot respect and honor the will of the voters in his state who overwhelmingly supported Mr. Trump in all 23 counties, 8 CDs and with a clean sweep of delegates!
I pray that our country soon, under President Trump, regains its standing as the beacon of hope, opportunity and freedom it once symbolized!!


18 posted on 06/16/2016 8:21:50 AM PDT by edie1960 (w)
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It makes perfect sense! After all, terror attacks have more than doubled during the Obama Administration (from 12 under President Bush to 25 and counting under President Obama). He's had a lot more opportunities to lower the flag...
19 posted on 06/16/2016 8:35:22 AM PDT by Shanghai Dan
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Just this last 2 semesters I swear at least half the time flags were lowered as I drove in past the display. Some of that was MD only, not fed. But dismaying regardless!

Whatever happened to “heads of state” only?


20 posted on 06/16/2016 8:36:10 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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