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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With his tenure in office marked by terror attacks and mass shootings, President Obama has reached a sad but remarkable milestone in his presidency: He has ordered the lowering of the nation's flags to half-staff more often than any president in history.
...kinda shocking that the Keynesian agitator-in-chief has lost the pom-pom waving apparatchiks.
I’m so sick of these jerks who lower the bar for lowering our Stars and Stripes.
Important people, like Whitney Houston and Muhammed Ali. /s
Flag should be flying upside down since 2009.
It’s his damned WATCH not President Bush’s!
The honor of flags at half staff is overdone not only by the President, but by state governors. Flags are half staff so much for anybody and their dog it has become meaningless. Save the honor for the very few who deserve it
We will only know the truth after Obama is out of office. Then —If Hillary is elected—only when she leaves. I believe the truth is much worse than we think.
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