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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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To: MNDude
In Obama's worldview that flag does not deserve to fly at full-staff.


21 posted on 06/16/2016 8:44:35 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: MNDude; Admin Moderator
Tried to post this from USAToday earlier but was reminded that any/all GannettGarbage cannot be posted on FR. I did not expect it to show up edited on Newsmax.

The first line of the original piece reads...

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.

22 posted on 06/16/2016 8:46:41 AM PDT by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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To: MNDude

I’m so sick of these jerks who lower the bar for lowering our Stars and Stripes.


23 posted on 06/16/2016 8:52:29 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: MNDude

Important people, like Whitney Houston and Muhammed Ali. /s


24 posted on 06/16/2016 9:10:00 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We can't fix a rigged system by relying on the people who rigged it." --Donald Trump, 6/7/16)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Flag should be flying upside down since 2009.


25 posted on 06/16/2016 9:16:45 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MNDude

It’s his damned WATCH not President Bush’s!


26 posted on 06/16/2016 9:59:55 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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To: MNDude

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


27 posted on 06/16/2016 10:33:50 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: showme_the_Glory

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.


28 posted on 06/16/2016 11:38:10 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: MNDude
Except for our Military dead. Flags didn't go to half staff for the 9 Ft. Hood drowning victims or the Blue Angel Pilot or the Chattanooga victims.


29 posted on 06/16/2016 2:30:51 PM PDT by GailA (A politician that won't keep his word to Veterans/Military won't keep them to You!)
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